By Chang Min Park
Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law · Legal Practitioner Director of Park & Co Lawyers
A designated area migration agreement is a regional labour agreement. It is not a permission to use a concession anywhere in Western Australia, Queensland, or the Northern Territory because the occupation appears on some DAMA list. The concession, the age limit, and the English level belong to that agreement and, inside it, often to that occupation.
The DAMA page asks for the occupation, in English, Korean, or the ANZSCO or OSCA code, and for the four-digit postcode of the workplace. A head-office address in a capital city does not become the workplace because the roster is arranged from there. Enter the postcode where the person will actually work.
An agreement can be closed while the visa you already hold is not
The page marks agreements that are closed to new applications and agreements whose intake is about to close. As at 7 November 2026 it was showing the South West agreement as closed to new applications, and it was flagging a Goldfields intake date. Read that flag on the day you use the page. An agreement reaching its end does not, by itself, cancel a visa or an agreement approval already granted. It does stop you treating the occupation list as open for a new nomination.
Age and English concessions are occupation-specific. A person aged 47 is not “within the DAMA age concession” in the abstract. The page separates bands and shows which occupations still have room above the usual skilled age limit. The same is true of an English result. Select the result you have, not the result a forum said was typical for the region.
What to enter
- The occupation name or code, and the workplace postcode.
- Age and the English result, if you want the concession filter rather than the full list.
- The agreement’s open or closed flag, before you tell an employer the occupation is available.
Earnings concessions are also on that page, and they move. Use the figure the page shows for the agreement and the financial year. Do not paste a salary floor from an old message into a nomination.
Check the workplace postcode before you rely on a concession
Enter the occupation and the postcode of the workplace. If the page marks the agreement closed, send that result with the nomination you were about to prepare.
Check the postcode against the agreement
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Sources and further reading
Sources checked on 7 November 2026. This article provides general information, not advice about an individual application. Check the law and official guidance that apply to your circumstances, and the dates on any notice you hold, before you act.
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