Australian Immigration Daily News

The below information and OSAP---Website-Factsheet.pdf has been provided by the Trades and Recognition Section within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for your information. 

Following consultation with assessors across Trades Recognition Australia (TRA), stakeholders including TRA-approved Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and automotive industry representatives, TRA will be initiating changes to its OSAP and Migration Skills Assessment (MSA) programs.

Removal of OSAP countries of passport

The leading change will be to remove countries of passport for automotive occupations from the OSAP program where those countries do not correspond with countries of passport for those occupations listed under the TSS program.  This change was agreed to following engagement with automotive industry representatives regarding skills assessments and countries that have similar qualification standards to Australia, together with TRAs desire for consistency. 

This change will allow qualified applicants from 1 April 2023 to choose between the MSA (offered in-house by TRA) or an OSAP assessment for the occupations and countries of passport listed below. 

The occupations and countries of passport in scope are:

* China is nominated against Panelbeater under Migration (IMMI 18/039: Mandatory Skills Assessment—Subclass 482 Visa) Instrument 2018 therefore Chinese passport holders will still be required to be assessed under OSAP.

For future program changes, please review the TRA website.

If you have any questions, please contact TRA via the online enquiry form.