Community Language Points for Skilled Migration

You can score an additional 5 points in the points test for skilled migration if you have "credentialed community language qualifications".

To obtain the community language points, you must be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) at the para-professional level (Level 2) or higher. At time of writing, NAATI offered accreditation exams in the following languages:

  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Auslan
  • Bangla
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Cantonese
  • Chinese
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Dari
  • Dinka
  • Dutch
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hazaragi
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Lao
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
  • Mandarin
  • Nepali
  • Nuer
  • Oromo
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Pushto
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Samoan
  • Serbian
  • Sinhalese
  • Somali
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Tamil
  • Tetum
  • Thai
  • Tigrinya
  • Tongan
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese

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