Monitoring of sponsors and visa holders

The Department of Home Affairs will monitor your organisations compliance with the sponsorship obligations. The Department can write to you and ask for information in accordance with your obligation to provide records and information. If you are found to have not complied with your obligations then you may be subject to a number of sanctions, which include:

• Your business could be barred from sponsoring people for a specified time.
• Your business could be barred from applying for sponsorship approval for any type of visa.
• Your existing approvals as a sponsor could be canceled
• Your business could be asked to provide a written undertaking that any failures will be rectified and will not occur again.
• You could be issued with an infringement notice of up to AUD12,600 for a body corporate and AUD2,520 for an individual for each failure.
• A civil penalty order of up to AUD63,000 for a corporation and AUD12,600 for an individual for each failure could be applied.
• You could also have administrative action taken against you for other actions such as providing false and misleading information, not being able to satisfy the criteria for approval as a sponsor, for breaking the law, if the person you sponsor breaks the law in relation to licensing, registration or membership needed to work in the nominated position.