Pathway

Australia Training Visa

Australia Residency

Last updated August 20, 2026

Pathway overview

At a glance

Australia's Training visa is a temporary route for workplace-based occupational training or professional development.

Type: Temporary training visa
Training fit: Structured workplace training or professional development
Core requirements: Sponsor, nomination or invitation, training plan, and support
What to know: Not a general work visa
What it gives: The holder can undertake the approved training or professional-development activity for the period granted, up to 2 years, and travel while the visa is valid.
Main limit: Subclass 407 is not a general work visa, internship label or way to pay a lower wage for a normal productive role.

Summary

The Training visa (Subclass 407) permits structured occupational training or professional development in Australia for up to 2 years. It is for improving skills, meeting registration requirements or building professional capacity—not filling an ordinary job vacancy.

An approved temporary activities sponsor normally nominates the training position and submits a detailed program. A Commonwealth agency sponsor can be exempt from the nomination step.

Eligibility

The applicant normally must be at least 18, have Functional English, genuinely need the training, have adequate health insurance and financial support, and meet health and character rules. The sponsor and nomination must be approved unless a specific exemption applies.

Home Affairs recognizes three broad training types:

training required for registration in Australia or the applicant's home country;
training to improve skills in an eligible occupation, usually involving recent relevant experience and a structured workplace program; and
capacity building overseas, including training connected to an overseas qualification, government-supported training or professional development for overseas managers and professionals.

The program must be tailored to the applicant, workplace-based and supervised. It should state learning objectives, tasks, trainers, time allocation, assessment and why ordinary employment or study would not meet the need.

The applicant must be able to comply with the genuine-temporary-stay requirement and all conditions. Family can sometimes be included, with separate financial, health and character evidence.

What This Route Allows

The holder can undertake the approved training or professional-development activity for the period granted, up to 2 years, and travel while the visa is valid. Work that is an essential part of the approved training may be performed under the visa's conditions.

The experience may later support professional registration or another visa application, but it creates no automatic permanent route.

What This Route Is Not

Subclass 407 is not a general work visa, internship label or way to pay a lower wage for a normal productive role. The training—not the employer's labor need—must be the primary purpose.

It is not an unrestricted study visa. Classroom study can support a workplace plan, but a person whose main purpose is an academic course may need Subclass 500.

Nomination approval does not guarantee the visa, and visa grant does not guarantee professional registration. The relevant licensing body makes its own decision.

Next Steps

Identify which of the three official training types fits and the exact registration, skill or capacity gap.
Find an approved sponsor able to deliver and supervise the program.
Prepare a person-specific training plan with objectives, timetable, tasks, supervision and assessment.
Check whether the occupation list, recent-experience rule, government support or overseas-employer requirements apply to that training type.
Confirm Functional English, funds, insurance, health and character evidence.
Have the sponsor lodge the nomination where required, then align the visa application with that exact program.
Check workplace rights and ensure productive work remains incidental to the approved training purpose.