Updated English Language score requirements for 457 and 485 visas

Updates / January 8, 2023 / By

Effective today, the 18th of April 2015, the revised English language scores requirement for the following visa are:

457 visa

  • IELTS – overall 5 (minimum 4.5 in each component) – single sitting
  • TOEFL iBT – overall 36 (minimum 3 in each component  – single sitting
  • PTE Academic – overall 36 (minimum 30 in each component) – single sitting
  • CAE overall 154 (minimum 147 in each component) – single sitting – test taken on or after 1 January 2015
  • OET B in each component

485 visa

  • IELTS – overall 6 (minimum 5 in each component) – single sitting
  • TOEFL iBT – overall 64 (minimum 4 in each component  – single sitting
  • PTE Academic – overall 50 (minimum 36 in each component) – single sitting
  • CAE overall 169 (minimum 154 in each component) – single sitting – test taken on or after 1 January 2015
  • OET B in each component

Tests must have been undertaken within the three years before the day on which the application was made.