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Skilled Recognised Graduate Subclass 476 Visa
Overview | 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. |
Visa type | Temporary |
Cost of application | AUD405 for main applicant |
Duration of visa | Up to 18 months |
Uses of this visa |
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Eligibility | Applicants must meet the following requirements-
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Engineering Qualifications
When you apply, you must have completed an engineering course for which you were awarded a degree or higher qualification in the last 2 years. This could be a:
- Bachelors degree
- Masters degree
- Doctoral degree
- Postgraduate diploma
This qualification must be in an engineering discipline, such as:
- civil engineering
- structural engineering
- chemical engineering
- environmental engineering
- electrical and electronics engineering
- mechanical, production and plant engineering
- mining and material engineering
Educational institutions
You must have completed your engineering qualification at a specified educational institution. Any institution offering an Engineering qualification accredited under the Washington Accord is a specified institution.
If you studied at an institution or college that is only affiliated with a Washington Accord specified institution, you would not satisfy this requirement.
We will also accept an engineering degree (or higher qualification) from:
- Argentina – Catholic University of Argentina
- Brazil – Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Chile – Universidad Catolica del Norte
- Chile – Catholic University of Chile
- Chile – University of Chile
- Chile – University of Concepcion
- Finland – HUT, Helsinki
- Germany – RWTH, Aachen
- Germany – Technical University of Berlin
- Germany – Technical University of Clausthal
- Germany – TU Bergakademie Freiberg
- Germany – University of Hannover
- Hungary – University of Miskolc
- India – Anna University, Chennai
- India – Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
- India – Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- India – Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- India – Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
- Iran – Amir Kabir University of Technology
- Iran – University of Tehran
- People’s Republic of China – Beijing Normal University
- People’s Republic of China – Beijing Petroleum University
- People’s Republic of China – Beijing University of Chemical Technology
- People’s Republic of China – Beijing University of Technology
- People’s Republic of China – China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing
- People’s Republic of China – Guangzhou University
- People’s Republic of China – Shanghai University of Engineering Science
- People’s Republic of China – Shanghai Jiaotong University
- People’s Republic of China – Tongji University
- People’s Republic of China – Tsinghua University
- People’s Republic of China – University of Science and Technology, Beijing
- Philippines – University of the Philippines
- Poland – Wroclaw University of Technology
- Slovakia – TU Kosice
- Sweden – Lulea University of Technology
- Tanzania – University of Dar es Salaam
English Language Requirement
To showcase your English proficiency, you must show evidence in the last 3 years that you received one of the following-
If you show that you possess a valid passport from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand or the Republic of Ireland, you will be exempt from proving English proficiency.
Test | Score |
IELTS | Overall score of at least 6 with a minimum score of 5 for each of the 4 parts |
TOEFL iBT | Total score of at least 64 with a minimum score of 4 for listening, 4 for reading, 14 for writing and 14 for speaking |
PTE Academic | Overall score of at least 50 with a minimum score of 36 for each of the 4 parts |
OET | At least B for each of the 4 parts |
Cambridge C1 Advanced test | Overall at least 169 with a minimum score of at least 154 in each of the 4 test components |