Which occupation are eligible ?
Industries heading here
- Agricultural data analytics
- Biologists/biotechnologists/synthetic biology specialists
- Blockchain technology
- Commercialization experience within the industry
- Biosecurity, disease management and prevention
- Alternate proteins for human and animal consumption
- Foodtech
- Precision engineering
- Product packaging, authentication and verification
- Predictive analytics for geospatial analysis, crop management and climatic forecasting
- Wearable technologies, including trackers
- Technologies for farm management, weather, seed optimisation, fertiliser and crop inputs, and irrigation, including drones, robotics and related capabilities
- Precision measurement and/or application of farm inputs such as nitrogen and pesticides, gene editing, nanomaterials and synthetic biology.
Industries heading here
- Advanced visualisation technology
- Artificial intelligence and machine
- Learning technologies
- Automation and robotics (for example, smart sorting technologies for recycling)
- Traceability technologies (for example, experience with sophisticated material trading systems that make material sources more transparent to consumers)
- Hydrogen technology
- Clean technologies, renewables and hybrids (including solar, wind and wave power)
- Battery/energy storage design (specialised, grid-scale and precursors for batteries)
- Bioenergy and biofuels
- Micro-grid design
Industries heading here
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Biochemistry and cell biology
- Biostatistics
- Biotechnology
- Biomedicine and bioengineering
- Cell and gene therapies – genomics
- Clinical trials
- Commercialisation experience in the health industry
- Digital health
- Healthcare entrepreneurship
- Health economics
- Implantable and wearable devices (3D printed devices, bionics and prosthetics)
- Infectious disease prevention
- Medical devices
- Medical physics
- Microbiology and immunology
- Nanotechnology and genomics
- Neuroscience and neurology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Precision medicine
- Point of care diagnostics
- Regenerative medicine
Industries heading here
- Financial data science and analysis
- Fintech cyber and data security
- Cloud technologies
- Software engineering and application programming
- User experience including natural language processing
- Digital assets including decentralized finance applications, digital asset marketplaces and non-fungible tokens (subject to Australian Government regulation)
- Blockchain engineering (full stack developer or solutions architect)
- Commercialisation experience in the health industry
- Regtech
- Wealth tech
- Insurance
- Neobanking
- Digital wallets and cryptocurrencies
- Automated and predictive financial advice
- Next generation lending, investment and wealth/fund management
- Platform banking and payments (such as contactless, DLT based layers, lightning network)
What are the eligibility requirements?
- You must be able to find work or become independently established in your field in Australia.
- You must be internationally recognised, and your achievements must be exceptional and outstanding.
- You must be nominated by Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, an eligible New Zealand citizen, or an Australian organisation with a national reputation in your area of talent.
- Your age is 18-55
- You might need to show functional English (IELTS-4.5).
- Meet health and character requirements.
What are the Benfits?
- Live and work in Australia on a permanent basis;
- To study at Australian educational institutions;
- To receive state-subsidised medical assistance through Medicare insurance and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS);
- Receive social benefits (waiting periods may apply);
- To apply for the citizenship of Australia in accordance with the established procedure;
- To sponsor persons wishing to apply for an Australian immigration visa.
What are the Visa fees?
- 4110 AUD – main applicant
- 2055 AUD – additional applicant over 18yo
- 1030 AUD – additional applicant under 18yo
