Applications for the Victorian Government’s 2024–25 skilled visa nomination program(opens in a new window) are open.
The program allows skilled professionals to live and work in Victoria. Early childhood teachers (ECTs) are on the skilled occupation list and are eligible to apply for a skilled visa nomination.
This is a great opportunity to boost our early childhood workforce and help ECTs currently on temporary visas to stay and work in Victoria and take up a pathway to permanent residency.
We’re encouraging service providers and ECTs to explore this opportunity:
- service providers can promote the program to ECTs currently employed on temporary visas
- eligible ECTs living in Victoria and overseas can submit a registration of interest on the Live in Melbourne(opens in a new window) website.
Please share this article with all early childhood teachers and educators in your service/s.
About the program
Victoria offers nomination for the following 2 visas:
- Skilled nominated visa (subclass 190) — a permanent visa that allows skilled migrants to live and work anywhere within Victoria, including Melbourne
- Skilled regional (provisional) visa (subclass 491) — a 5-year provisional visa for living and working in regional Victoria, with a pathway to permanent residency after 3 years.
Key features of Victoria’s skilled visa nomination program:
- adds extra points to an applicant’s overall Australian visa application points test (5 points for subclass 190, 15 points for subclass 491)
- does not require a job offer or employer sponsorship
- provides unrestricted work rights in accordance with visa conditions
- offers a pathway to permanent residency
- Victorian visa nomination is free of charge.
Support available
We’re supporting ECTs in Victoria with career supports and professional development opportunities(opens in a new window). There are also several incentives(opens in a new window) available to support relocation within Victoria, including: available to support relocation within Victoria, including:
- individual incentives of $9,000 for eligible ECTs and educators currently working outside the Victorian early childhood sector who accept a role at any service delivering funded Three-Year-Old Kindergarten or Pre-Prep in 2025
- location incentives of between $9,000 and $50,000 for eligible ECTs who secure a teaching role at selected services
- relocation supplements worth up to $8,000 to anyone who receives an incentive and moves more than 100 kilometres from their current place of residence to take up the role.
Find out more
The Victorian Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions will hold a webinar on Tuesday 18 February 2025 at 2:00 pm. Find out more and register here: Skilled migration pathways for early childhood teachers(opens in a new window).
For more information, refer to the Live in Melbourne(opens in a new window) website.
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