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Working and Skilled Visas

​​​This is a list of Australian Working and Skilled Visas.

Business Innovation and Investment (permanent) visa (subclass 888)

For entrepreneurs, investors and business owners to continue their activity in Australia.

Business Innovation and Investment (provisional) visa (subclass 188)

This visa allows you to own and manage a business in Australia, conduct business and investment activity in Australia or undertake an entrepreneurial activity in Australia.

Business Owner (subclass 890)

This visa is for people who own and manage a business in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.

Global Talent visa (subclass 858)

This is a permanent visa for people who have an internationally recognised record of exceptional and outstanding achievement in an eligible field.

Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186)

This visa lets skilled workers, who are nominated by their employer, live and work in Australia permanently.

Investor visa (subclass 891)

This visa is for people who undertake business and investment activities in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.

Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa (subclass 191)

This visa allows workers who hold an eligible visa and meet an income requirement to live and work in Australia permanently.

Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (subclass 187)

This visa allows skilled workers, who are nominated by their employer in regional Australia, live and work in Australia permanently.

Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 494)

This visa enables regional employers to address identified labour shortages within their region by sponsoring skilled workers where employers can't source an appropriately skilled Australian worker.

Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)

This visa is for invited workers, eligible New Zealand citizens and eligible Hong Kong or British National (Overseas) passport holders with skills we need, to live and work permanently anywhere in Australia.

Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)

This visa lets nominated skilled workers live and work in Australia as permanent residents.

Skilled-Recognised Graduate visa (subclass 476)

This visa allows recent engineering graduates to live, work or study in Australia for up to 18 months. You must have completed a degree or higher qualification from a specified institution within the past 2 years, and be under 31 years of age.

Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491)

A visa for skilled people nominated by a state or territory government to live and work in regional Australia.

State or Territory Sponsored Business Owner visa (subclass 892)

This visa is for people who own and manage a business in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.

State or Territory Sponsored Investor visa (subclass 893)

This is a permanent resident visa for subclass State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Provisional) visa (subclass 165) holders and who have held a designated investment of AUD750,000 for 4 years.

Temporary Activity visa (subclass 408)

This visa allows you to come to Australia to do specific types of work on a short-term, temporary basis.

Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485)

A temporary visa that allows international students to live, study and work after you have finished your studies.

Temporary Work (International Relations) visa (subclass 403)

A temporary visa to work in specific circumstances that improve Australia’s international relations.

Temporary Work (Short Stay Specialist) visa (subclass 400)

The Highly Specialised Work stream of this temporary visa lets you do short-term, highly specialised work in Australia. It is suitable if you have specialised skills, knowledge or experience not generally available in Australia.

Temporary Skill Shortage visa (subclass 482)

This temporary visa lets an employer sponsor a suitably skilled worker to fill a position they can’t find a suitably skilled Australian to fill.