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  Australian postcodes eligible for specified work (88 days), Working Holiday
  visas 417 and 462
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  - australia
  - working-holiday-visa
  - immigration
  - postcodes
  - 88-days
  - specified-work
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Australian postcodes eligible for specified work (the "88 days")

Working Holiday Maker visa holders (subclass 417, and 462 under a near-identical instrument) need 88 days of "specified work" in eligible areas of Australia to apply for a second-year visa, and 179 days for a third. The official list of eligible areas is a legal instrument published as a PDF, with postcodes written as ranges inside the text. This dataset turns it into one CSV row per range, with the kind of work each area counts for.

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Source

Migration (Specified work and areas for subclass 417 visas) Instrument 2022 (LIN 22/012), Schedule 1, compilation in force on 5 April 2025, Department of Home Affairs. https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2022L00271/latest/details

Based on content from the Federal Register of Legislation at 3 November 2026 (latest compilation checked on that date). For the latest information on Australian Government legislation please go to https://www.legislation.gov.au.

The subclass 462 instrument (LIN 22/013) has a near-identical Schedule 1; check it for a 462 visa.

File

specified_work_postcode_ranges.csv, 234 rows:

Column	Meaning
`area`	Regional Australia, Northern Australia, Remote and Very Remote Australia, or a postcode listed on its own
`state`	State or territory
`postcode_from`, `postcode_to`	Inclusive range of 4-digit postcodes (empty when the whole state counts)
`all_postcodes_in_state`	`true` when every postcode of the state or territory counts (e.g. Northern Territory, Tasmania, South Australia for Regional Australia)
`counts_for_work`	`farm_fishing_forestry_construction_mining` or `tourism_hospitality`
`note`	Remarks on a row

How the rules work

Farm work, fishing and pearling, tree farming and felling, construction and mining count in Regional Australia.
Tourism and hospitality count only in Northern Australia and Remote and Very Remote Australia, plus four postcodes listed on their own (4406, 4416, 4498, 7215). A postcode can therefore be eligible for a farm job and not for a hotel job.
Ranges are copied as written: a range can include numbers that are not real postcodes.

Limits

Areas affected by bushfires, floods, cyclones or other severe weather are defined by local government area (LGA), not by postcode, and are not included.
The official text prints one Remote Australia range in NSW as "2832 to 283", a typo. It is widened here to 2832–2839 (see the note column).
This is not legal advice. The Department of Home Affairs decides whether work counts.

Licence

CC BY 4.0. Please credit "88mates (https://88mates.com), based on content from the Federal Register of Legislation".