Skilled Visa

While in Australia, you can:

• Travel
• Work
• Enrol in further professional studies
• Study to improve your English skills.

In the two years before you apply, you must have completed one of the following qualifications in engineering:

• Bachelors degree
• Masters degree
• Doctoral degree
• Postgraduate diploma.

Your qualification must contain a major sequence of study or specialisation in engineering, such as:

• Civil engineering
• Structural engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Electrical and electronics engineering
• Mechanical, production and plant engineering
• Mining and material engineering.

Washington Accord institutions or certain institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, China, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Tanzania.

You can include the following people in your visa application at the time of lodgement:

• Partner
• Your child/step-child or your partner’s child/step-child.

• An overall score of at least 6 with a minimum score of 5 in each of the four components (listening, reading, writing and speaking) in an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) (General or Academic) test that has been undertaken in the three years immediately prior to lodging the visa application.
• A score of at least ‘B’ in each of the four test components of an Occupational English Test (OET) test that has been undertaken in the three years immediately prior to lodging the visa application.
• A total score of at least 64 with the following minimum test scores in each of the four test components: 4 for listening, 4 for reading, 14 for writing and 14 for speaking, in a Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-based test (TOEFL iBT) test that has been undertaken in the three years immediately prior to lodging the visa application.
• An overall score of at least 50 with a minimum score of 36 in each of the four components (listening, reading, writing and speaking) in a Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) test that has been undertaken in the three years immediately prior to lodging the visa application.
• An overall score of at least 169 with a minimum score of 154 in each of the four test components listening, reading, writing and speaking in a Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) test that was undertaken on or after 1 January 2015.