Please refer to the Home Affairs webpage for full details.
Notify the Immigration and Relocation Team in a timely manner to ensure that the Department of Home Affairs is notified within 28 calendar days when certain events occur or about to occur regarding the sponsored 482 visa holder, such as:
Visa costs
Cost associated with the sponsorship and nomination of the 482 visas, including the Skilling Australians Fund (SAF), cannot be passed on to the staff member and will be the hiring area’s cost.
Important note: the staff member will be responsible for their personal visa application cost unless relocation support is provided, which includes visa support.
Travel costs to return to country of residence
If requested in writing either by the sponsored visa holder or the Department of Home Affairs, the hiring area must, within 30 days, arrange or pay economy class air travel, or the reasonable equivalent, to the sponsored visa holder and their accompanying family members to return them to their country of passport.
Pay costs to locate and remove an unlawful non-citizen
If the sponsored visa holder or their family become unlawful, ie, they no longer hold a valid Australian visa, as a visa sponsor the cost of relocating and removing them from Australia may be transferred to the hiring area.
While you hold a primary Subclass 482 visa, you are subject to Condition 8607: Approved Work Only, which means that you must:
Your secondary sponsored family members are not subject to condition 8607, which means that they can work or study unrestricted in Australia.
Condition 8501: Maintain health insurance
You and your dependent family members must maintain adequate arrangements for health insurance for the duration of your stay in Australia. Passport holders from eligible countries may apply for Medicare, which is considered adequate health insurance.