Update on the state sponsor in Victoria

The PR List has been updated to include a new target sector

To the existing sectors, a new Target sector has been added today.

Victoria’s cultural vitality, economic prosperity, and social well-being are all influenced by the creative industries. The Victorian Government’s Creative State 2025 policy aims to maintain Victoria’s international image as a cultural hotspot. The Victorian Government’s next four-year creative industries strategy, Creative State 2025, aims to increase job creation, enhance skills, and cement Victoria’s position as a global cultural destination and daring creative leader.

The Victorian Government’s next four-year creative industries strategy, Creative State 2025, aims to increase job creation, enhance skills, and cement Victoria’s position as a global cultural destination and daring creative leader.

Victoria is looking for applicants who are working in the screen sector and have STEMM abilities in digital effects or computer animation to help support this approach.

Work in a similar field could include:

• Expert in multimedia
• Developer for the Internet
• Designer of Graphics
• Designer of Multimedia
• Developer of video games
• Illustrator
• Designer of Fashion
• Architect

Pathway to Workforce Skill

Victoria’s Workforce Skill Pathway now includes Early Childhood Educators, Chefs, and Cooks

To be considered for a skilled visa nomination in Victoria, you must first fill out a Registration of Interest form (ROI). You must have a good skill evaluation to be considered for submission.

Victoria’s skill shortfalls are filled through local retention and training. In some cases, companies may require migrations to swiftly supplement the available pool of competent workers.

The Workforce Skills Pathway (WSP) is a method of addressing the following issues:

• Skills gaps established by a new Victorian Government strategic policy where alternate pathways are not easily accessible or effective, and other workforce development alternatives are ineffective or non-existent; or
• Alternative migration channels and other workforce development alternatives are ineffective or non-existent in specific industries with skills deficits.

The WSP must be in the public interest and encourage state- or industry-wide development.

A Workforce Skills Pathway fills a skill shortage throughout a state or area, and it may have its own set of selection criteria. Any vocations that are targeted will require a high level of expertise.

You do not have to be working in a target industry to be chosen to register for visa nomination if you are eligible to register or have been asked to register through a Workforce Skills Pathway.

• Hospitality

The Victorian Government has set up the Hospitality path for highly qualified cooks and chefs to aid industry in addressing unemployment problem caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Eligibility

You must meet the requirements for either the subclass 190 or subclass 491 Victorian visa nomination, and you must be a cook or chef living and working in Victoria.

• Teacher of young children

The Victorian government plans to spend about $5 billion over the next ten years to establish Three-Year-Old Kindergarten. This investment will result in the creation of 6,000 new teaching positions across Victoria.

We are taking applications for Victorian nominated skilled visas from eligible early childhood teachers in collaboration with the Department of Education and Training.

Eligibility

You must meet the requirements for either the subclass 190 or subclass 491 Victorian visa nomination, and you must live and work as an Early Childhood Educator in Victoria. You must also have an Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership related assessment as an Early Childhood (Pre-primary School) Teacher.

Sector of Interest

To be considered for a skilled visa nomination in Victoria, you must first fill out a Registration of Interest form (ROI). You must have a good skill evaluation to be considered for submission.

There is no minimum duration of service required, and informal work is acceptable.

Any vocations associated to this industry are eligible to apply:

• Health
• Medical Investigations
• Sciences of Life
• Digital
• Agri-Food
• Manufacturing Technology Advances
• New energy, less emissions, and a circular economy
• Industries of Creativity

When should you apply?

New Registrations of Interest for Victoria’s Skilled Migration Program for 2021-22 are currently being accepted (ROIs).

Victoria has received the following allocations from the Department of Home Affairs:

• There are 3,500 subcategories in 190 locations, and
• There are 491 sites in 500 subcategories.

This year, we’ll be looking for people who are currently residing in Victoria and working in a Target Sector with STEMM abilities.

Learn More about Sector of Interest

Health

Professionals offering medical services to Victorians, as well as those active in associated research and education and development, make up Victoria’s health sector.

To be recognized employed in the health sector, you do not have to be employed in a health-related profession (e.g., nurse). A software developer working on hospital software, for example, is regarded to be in the health sector.

Please remember that we only propose people with specific specialties in nursing.

Nurses’ Information

The contribution that nurses continue to provide to Victoria is greatly appreciated. We chose approximately 1,000 nurses to register for Victorian visa nomination as part of the 2020-21 programme.

This year, we will continue to identify nurses who will be nominated for a Victorian visa. Our focus will be on the specializations listed below, based on discussions with industry and the Department of Health:

• 254111 is the number for a midwife.
• 254412 Registered Nurse (Aged Care)
• Registered Nurse – 254415 (Critical Care and Emergency)
• 254422 Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
• 254423 Registered Nurse (Perioperative)
• 254425 Registered Nurse (Paediatrics)

On the guidance of the Department of Health, we also choose nurses.

Nurses who work for a health provider directly (such as a nursing home or hospital) will be given priority over those who work for an agency.

Medical Investigations

Victoria’s medical research covers activities such as medication discovery, clinical studies, health manufacturing services, medical equipment, and digital health, in addition to medical research undertaken in universities and research institutes.
You are equipped to perform in the health research sector if you use your STEMM talents to help medical research in Victoria.

Life Sciences

Medical technology, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors are among the industries that make up Victoria’s life sciences industry. Food processing, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceutical companies may all be included in the life sciences sector.

You are deemed to be operating in the life sciences industry if you use your STEMM talents to support Victoria’s life sciences sector. A lecturer in biotechnology at a university, for example, is equipped to perform in the biological sciences.

Digital

In Victoria, the digital sector uses technological innovation to boost economic growth, productivity, and competitiveness.

To submit for a subclass 190 visa nomination, we are currently only considering individuals with cyber security capabilities. If they are applying their digital abilities in another target industry, applicants without cyber security expertise who are pursuing subclass 190 visa nomination may still be selected. A software engineer working in medical research, for example.

Applicants from any sector of the digital economy will be considered for a subclass 491 visa nomination.

Agri-Food

Highly skilled employees operate in Victoria’s agri-food sector to enhance food growth and production as well as modernise the state’s agri-food sector. Candidates must have used their STEMM talents to develop within the industry, which might include research and innovation or advanced manufacturing, in order to be considered for nomination.

Advanced-Manufacturing

Defence and aerospace are two of Victoria’s advanced industrial industries. You must be using your STEMM talents to increase innovation to be deemed to be working in high tech. This could encompass operations like research and innovation, design, and supply chain management, all of which help to boost global competitiveness by leveraging technology.

New energy, less emissions, and a circular economy

Clean energy, renewables, bioenergy, carbon capture, and energy storage are all part of this sector. Applicants’ STEMM abilities could be put to good use in initiatives to decrease waste, reduce pollution, and safeguard the environment.

You must be currently employed in one of our target industries using your STEMM talents in order to be considered for a skilled visa nomination.

The Industries of Creativity

Victoria’s cultural vitality, economic prosperity, and social well-being are all influenced by the creative industries. The Victorian Government’s Creative State 2025 policy aims to maintain Victoria’s international image as a cultural hotspot.

Victoria is looking for individuals who are working in the screen sector and have STEMM abilities in digital effects or digital animation to help support this approach.

 Statistics on Victoria’s latest invitations

Graduates with a Ph.D.

International students and Ph.D. candidates who match the requirements are also welcome to apply. During this Financial Year, 90 Ph.D. graduates were asked for Victoria State Sponsorship, 65 of whom had Australian qualifications and 25 of whom had international qualifications. ​

Who was the lucky recipient of the invitation? ​

There were 2500 seats available for Skilled Nominated Visas (Subclass 190) and 1043 spots available for Skilled Work Regional Visas (Subclass 491).

So far, 1099 people have applied for category 190, and 197 for subclass 491.

The majority of the Registrations of Interest that were chosen to apply were for health-related vocations. This is because the applicant’s work must contribute to Victoria’s reaction to the coronavirus epidemic.

Get the latest industry-specific invitation information: