ASMIRT’s page is under review (checked 7 November 2026)
ASMIRT’s overseas assessments page says it is under review and that the page and its links will be live by 20 November. The ASMIRT facts here come from its 2026 guidelines and FAQ (June 2026), its July 2026 application forms and its October 2026 guide to the application form. Check ASMIRT’s page once it relaunches: it may change any of them.
What ASMIRT’s assessment is, and what it isn’t
ASMIRT is the assessing authority for skilled migration in diagnostic radiography (medical imaging), radiation therapy and ultrasound. Nuclear medicine technologists are assessed by ANZSNM instead.
ASMIRT says its assessment is “not a registration process” and is “not mandatory” for registration with the Board. It says you need it if you require a skills assessment for immigration, or eligibility for ASMIRT membership; which visas require a skills assessment is a question for the Department of Home Affairs.
- Registration and a visa are separate applications. The Board says they are “entirely separate” and that success in one “does not automatically guarantee success in the other”.
- ASMIRT and ANZSNM can take your work experience into account; the Board looks only at your formal qualifications when it decides whether you are qualified. The Board says this is why some people are approved for skilled migration but don’t meet its registration requirements.
- Nuclear medicine technologists go to ANZSNM, not ASMIRT: Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine.
- We don’t give migration advice, and we don’t name visa types or processing times: check with the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs. The Board doesn’t give migration advice either.
Registration to practise is the Medical Radiation Practice Board’s decision, through Ahpra. See registration pathways and outcomes and the summary further down this page.
Which ASMIRT application
The overseas assessment
For qualifications gained outside Australia, assessed one by one by ASMIRT’s Overseas Qualifications Assessment Panel. Fee $1,074 if you live overseas, or $1,180 if you live in Australia (including GST), for 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027.
The pre-approved application
The pre-approved application is only for graduates of New Zealand undergraduate programs, and for people who were assessed successfully before, have not applied to immigration, and need an updated skills assessment letter for migration. ASMIRT pre-approves no other country’s courses. Fee $338.
Clinical experience: two years after you qualify
At least two years of clinical experience after you qualified, in medical imaging or radiation therapy. Clinical time inside your degree doesn’t count, and neither does an internship you had to complete for the degree to be conferred. ASMIRT also asks for at least two years in the last five and evidence of clinical experience within the last three years. If you apply short of two years, ASMIRT holds the application until you reach it; without it, you are “ineligible for a skills assessment letter”.
Only pre-approved applicants from New Zealand need a minimum of one year.
This is ASMIRT’s rule for a skills assessment. For registration, the Board looks at your formal qualifications and applies its own registration standards, including one on recent practice:
Recency of practice: at least 450 hours of practice in the previous three years (about three months full-time), under the standard dated 1 December 2016. Falling short doesn’t necessarily stop a return to practice.
English for the skills assessment
If you hold a passport from the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, the United States of America or the Republic of Ireland, you send ASMIRT a certified copy of your passport instead of a test result.
Your result must be from within the last two years and must still be current for at least three months after the date you submit.
| Test | ASMIRT minimum |
|---|---|
| IELTS Academic | Overall 7.0, no element below 7.0, in a single test |
| OET | Overall B, no element below B, in a single test, in your profession (for example radiography) |
| PTE Academic | Overall 66, no element below 66, in a single test |
| TOEFL iBT | Total 94, with listening 24, reading 24, writing 27 and speaking 23 |
| Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) | No element below 185, in a single test |
- ASMIRT’s documents don’t say whether at-home tests are accepted, so ask ASMIRT before you book one.
- ASMIRT’s English rules apply to its skills assessment only. Registration uses Ahpra’s English standard, with different scores and rules, and ASMIRT itself reminds applicants that registration needs its own current English evidence.
Ahpra’s English rules for registration, side by side with these: English requirements.
Documents
ASMIRT’s July 2026 application form says every document on its checklist must be included and every copy certified, or the application won’t be processed.
About you
- Evidence of any change of name
- Evidence of your Australian residency status or citizenship, if you already hold a visa
- Your English evidence, or a certified copy of your passport if your passport exempts you (see English, below)
Your qualification
- Your qualification and academic transcript, with English translations where needed
- The detailed syllabus and curriculum of your course, showing the content and hours of every subject (a results transcript isn’t enough), and a summary table of subjects with hours per subject and year
- Evidence of any additional or postgraduate qualifications
- Your current registration, certificate or licence to practise, and your membership (or eligibility) of your country’s professional society
Your experience
- A table of your clinical experience after qualification
- Letters on official departmental letterhead from past and present employers, giving the percentage of each modality you worked in, your duties and responsibilities, your dates of employment, full- or part-time, and your hours
- Payslips and yearly tax returns for each year of employment
- Evidence of your CPD over the last three years (60 hours), and a current CV
Rules that pause applications
- Certified or notarised copies must have been certified within the past six months.
- Employer letters need wet (not electronic) signatures, and letters signed by Human Resources aren’t accepted.
- Payslips from at least the last three months (October 2026 guide), and payslips and yearly tax returns for each year of employment (July 2026 form).
- Evidence of at least 20 hours of CPD a year for each of the past three years, at least 35 hours of it substantive.
- ASMIRT’s October 2026 guide describes online lodgement: the application can’t be submitted until every required document is uploaded, and a missing document pauses it.
- Documents not in English must be translated into English and certified as true copies by a government body (such as an Australian consulate or embassy) or an accredited translator.
- A certified copy is one a person or agency recognised by law in your country has stamped as a true copy of the original (some countries call this notarised). In Australia, ASMIRT names a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner for Declarations or another person before whom a statutory declaration may be made.
ASMIRT fees, 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027
| Overseas assessment, applying from overseas (GST free) | $1,074 |
| Overseas assessment, resident in Australia (including GST) | $1,180 |
| A second modality assessed | +$516 |
| Pre-approved application (only for New Zealand graduates, and for people assessed successfully before who haven’t applied to immigration and need an updated letter) | $338 |
| Appeal: resident outside Australia (GST free) / in Australia (including GST) | $306 / $338 |
Australian dollars, from ASMIRT’s 2026 guidelines, FAQ and July 2026 form. ASMIRT says application fees are non-refundable. These are ASMIRT’s fees, not the Board’s, and not ours.
Processing time: ASMIRT’s own documents give different processing times, so we don’t quote one: ask ASMIRT.
Outcomes, appeals and how long the letter lasts
- Unconditional recognition. ASMIRT issues a Statement of Qualification (diagnostic radiography or radiation therapy).
- Conditional rejection. Until you show you have completed a period of further approved training.
- Rejection. Until you show you have completed an MRPBA-accredited Medical Radiation Science degree that meets the Australian standard.
- An appeal must be lodged within three months of the Assessment Panel’s decision, in writing and signed by you (the July 2026 form says email or faxed copies aren’t accepted). ASMIRT’s Board of Directors decides it, and its decision is final.
- The skills assessment letter is valid for three years, and the Department of Home Affairs accepts a skills assessment outcome only if it was issued within the last three years.
- ASMIRT’s FAQ says that to operate irradiating apparatus you need a state licence, separate from Ahpra registration and from its assessment; the Board says most states and territories require one, so check the rules where you will work.
Registration is separate: the Board’s pathways and the National MRP Exam
An ASMIRT outcome of any kind neither sends you to the exam nor exempts you from it. Registration has its own qualification step, on one of the Board’s pathways for qualifications from outside New Zealand. The Board decides which pathway applies to you from the information in your application. Nothing on this site can tell you for certain which one it will be.
Comparable Regulator Pathway
For diagnostic radiography and radiation therapy only, when your qualification was accredited at the time you completed it by a regulator the Board treats as comparable: CORU in Ireland (CORU-approved qualifications completed between 2013 and 2030) or the HCPC in the United Kingdom (HCPC-approved qualifications completed between 2010 and 2030). The Board doesn’t need to assess the qualification itself.
Recognised International Qualification Pathway
For all three divisions, when the Board has already assessed the same qualification as yours and found it substantially equivalent, or based on similar competencies, to an approved qualification. Yours must match an entry on the Board’s list exactly: division, institution, qualification title and award year.
Qualification Assessment Pathway
For everyone else, in all three divisions. You send the Board form PNAQ-91 (Portfolio for the assessment of non-approved qualifications) with all your medical radiation practice qualifications, and it assesses them before you apply for registration.
The Board says this pathway is not available for nuclear medicine technologists. If you hold current registration with New Zealand’s Medical Radiation Technologists Board and a current practising certificate, you can apply for general registration under the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997.
The National exam for medical radiation practice
- You sit the exam if the Board assesses your qualification as “relevant to the profession”. The Board can also use it for practitioners returning after an extended break, or where there are concerns about safe practice.
- A computer-based multiple-choice exam: up to 200 questions in up to three hours (180 minutes), and you need to be available for four hours in all. Each question has four options with one correct answer; most are vignettes or scenarios, across every stage of life.
- The pass mark is a minimum of 65 per cent in both Part A (common capabilities) and Part B (division-specific capabilities). The Board calibrates the exam using final-year students and recent graduates.
- You have three attempts. After three fails you can’t register for it again, unless the Board agrees to a fourth and final attempt, which it considers only if at least 12 months have passed since your last attempt, your best score was within 5% of the pass mark, and you can show learning that improves your chances.
- The exam guidelines also say: “Candidates must not attempt the exam within three months of their last attempt.” Check this against the dates before you plan a resit.
2027 sittings
- Sat 16 – Sun 24 January 2027 (registration Mon 7 – Thu 24 December 2026)
- Sat 10 – Sun 18 April 2027 (registration Mon 1 – Fri 19 March 2027)
- Sat 10 – Sun 18 July 2027 (registration Mon 31 May – Fri 18 June 2027)
- Sat 16 – Sun 24 October 2027 (registration Mon 6 – Fri 24 September 2027)
From the Board’s 2027 examination schedule. Registration for each sitting closes weeks before its exam window, you need an active exam account first, and the three-month rule between attempts can rule out the next sitting after a fail. Check the Board’s exam page before you plan around a date. First set up an account on the Board’s examination portal (you need your Ahpra user ID). The Board says accounts are reviewed and activated within five working days, and you need an active account before you can register for a sitting.
Board fees (schedule effective 1 October 2026)
- • Qualification portfolio assessment (form PNAQ-91, if your pathway needs it): $660
- • Exam sitting fee, per attempt: $787
- • General registration: $230 application fee plus $230 registration fee ($180 in NSW), so $460 ($410 in NSW) the first time (our sum)
- • Assessment, one exam sitting and first general registration together: $1,907 ($1,857 in NSW), our sum
The Board charges an application fee and a registration fee, and both are paid when you apply. Registered practitioners renew by 30 November each year to avoid a late fee. The one-month late period ends on 31 December, after which registration lapses; to keep practising after that you make a fast track application for registration (the Board’s $60 “fast track application” fee). After at least six continuous months of leave on the grounds of a protected attribute (such as parental leave, disability or carer status), you can apply for a 30 per cent rebate on renewal fees. It applies at renewal, not to a first application. Check the Board’s fee schedule before you pay.
Professional capabilities, 3rd edition (in effect from 30 March 2026)
The exam is based on the Board’s Professional capabilities. The 3rd edition replaced the 2020 edition and is organised, on the CanMEDS approach, into six domains:
- Domain 1: Medical radiation practitioner (1A diagnostic radiographer, 1B nuclear medicine technologist, 1C radiation therapist)
- Domain 2: Professional and ethical practitioner
- Domain 3: Communicator and collaborator
- Domain 4: Lifelong learner
- Domain 5: Safety, quality and risk management practitioner
- Domain 6: Leader and steward
The Board’s candidate FAQs (2022) describe Part A against Domains 1 to 5. The 3rd-edition Professional capabilities, in effect from 30 March 2026, have six domains, and the exam reading list still names the 2020 capabilities. The Board hasn’t said how the exam maps to the new edition. In its October 2026 newsletter the Board said it will “soon” start a periodic review and update of the exam, refreshing content and adding questions aligned with the updated Professional capabilities. It has published no new format and no date; the exam guidelines in effect are dated 26 April 2022.
From the 3rd edition’s key capabilities and explanatory notes:
- Anaphylaxis. Recognise and manage it, and give first-line treatment such as adrenaline (ampoule or autoinjector) within your scope of practice, in line with the ACSQHC Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard and local protocols. The 3rd edition notes that ASCIA’s online anaphylaxis training is free to practitioners in Australia and New Zealand.
- Basic life support. All registered practitioners must be trained and current in CPR and AED use, through education or training with learning outcomes equivalent to HLTAID010 Provide basic emergency life support.
- Recognising acute deterioration. Key capability 1(h), read with the ACSQHC National Consensus Statement and NSQHS Standard 8.
Not part of the capabilities update. Recency of practice: at least 450 hours of practice in the previous three years (about three months full-time), under the standard dated 1 December 2016. Falling short doesn’t necessarily stop a return to practice.
Streamlined pathway for experienced practitioners: Ahpra and four National Boards, this one included (all three divisions), consulted from 10 December 2025 to 9 February 2026 on a draft standard, “General registration for experienced internationally qualified health practitioners”. As at 7 November 2026 no decision or start date has been published, so the current pathways are the ones that apply.
Sources: Professional capabilities for medical radiation practitioners, 3rd edition (2026), key capabilities 1(h) and 1(i) and the explanatory notes; the Board’s exam, fees, capabilities and consultation pages, read 7 November 2026.
Next steps
English requirements
Ahpra’s rules for registration and ASMIRT’s for the skills assessment
Registration pathways and outcomes
The Board’s pathways, the exam and ASMIRT’s outcomes
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