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Skilled Migration to Australia - Designated Languages

You can score an additional 5 bonus points in the points test for skilled migration if you have skills in one of Australia's community languages.

You must either:

  • Have professional level langage skills as evidenced by a qualification equivalent to an Australian degree at a university where instruction was in the language; OR
  • Be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators & Interpreters (NAATI) at the professional level (Level 3).

The list of Australian community languages for the purposes of skilled migration is:

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Arabic (including Lebanese)
  • Armenian
  • Bengali
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Chinese - Cantonese
  • Chinese - Mandarin
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Estonian
  • Fijian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Malaysian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Lao
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Maltese
  • Netherlandic (Dutch)
  • Norwegian
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Sinhalese
  • Slovak
  • Slovene
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tagalog (Filipino)
  • Tamil
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese
  • Yiddish
Skilled migration can be complex, so we recommend that you contact us to check your likely eligibility for skilled migration before you proceed with an application.

In particular, you will either need to sit for NAATI accreditation as a translator/interpreter or to show that you have a qualification considered comparable to an Australian bachelor degree to obtain bonus points for language skills. We can advise you on both of these matters.

If you would like us to check your likely eligibility for skilled migration or if you would like us to assist you with your application, please send us an email inquiry. We will then provide you with a comprehensive preliminary assessment of your likely eligibility for skilled migration, and can discuss with you the best way to proceed with your application.

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