Compliance health check
The compliance health check is a structured review of your sponsorship obligations — records, notifications, employment terms and nomination accuracy — against what the Department can ask for. It takes about an hour of your time, it is free, and it is conducted by our principal, a Registered Migration Agent. Most sponsors we review are complying in substance and failing on administration.
Find out where you stand before the Department does
The five failures we find most often
1. Labour Market Testing evidence that can't be produced
The advertising ran. Nobody kept it. Or it ran for too short a period, omitted the salary or the employer name, or appeared only on an internal careers page.
Follow the Labour Market Testing requirements closely on format, duration and placement, and retain evidence of every posting in a form you can hand over two years later.
2. Records that aren't in a producible form
The Department can request records at any time. Employment agreements, pay records, hours, leave, nomination details and sponsorship correspondence all need to be kept in a prescribed form for a prescribed period.
Complying in practice is not the same as being able to demonstrate compliance on request, and only one of those counts when the request arrives.
3. Notification deadlines missed
Specified events — a worker ceasing employment, a change in duties, a change to your business details or structure — carry notification obligations with deadlines attached.
A late notification is a breach even when the event itself is entirely benign. This is the most common finding in every review we run, and it is almost always a diary problem rather than an intent problem.
4. Terms that don't match the nomination
Sponsored workers must receive terms no less favourable than an equivalent Australian performing equivalent work at the same location — and that reaches allowances, rosters and site entitlements, not just base salary.
Role drift causes the other half of this. Duties expand, nobody revisits the nomination, and the worker is no longer performing the occupation that was approved.
5. Compliance treated as a one-off
Many sponsors treat approval as the finish line. Sponsorship is a long-term commitment with obligations that run for the life of the employment.
Compliance isn’t only about avoiding penalties. For a business that tenders for work, a clean sponsorship record is a procurement asset — and a public sanction is a procurement problem.
What the health check covers
- Sponsorship approval status, scope and expiry
- Nomination accuracy against roles as actually performed
- Labour Market Testing evidence and retention
- Record-keeping against prescribed requirements
- Notification history and outstanding obligations
- Employment terms against equivalent-worker requirements
- Visa expiries and forward planning
- Readiness for a monitoring request or site visit
For resources employers we also look at the site-specific dimensions that head-office reviews miss: roster patterns against nominated terms, site allowances, and how an offshore or remote-site monitoring visit would actually go.
What you get
A written summary setting out what we found, what needs attention, what is urgent and what can wait — in plain terms, not a compliance register you will never open again.
No obligation to engage us afterwards. If everything is in order we will tell you that, and you will have a document saying so.
What happens if we find something
Most findings are administrative and fixable.
A gap you identify and correct yourself is a materially different position from one the Department finds during monitoring. Where something needs remediation we will set out what is involved, and you can do it internally or we can run it — your choice, and we will tell you honestly which makes sense.
Where a finding is serious, you will hear that plainly and immediately rather than at the end of a written report.
Book the health check
About an hour of your time. Conducted by our principal, Matthew Coleman, Registered Migration Agent (MARN 1686595). No obligation.
Immigration assistance is provided only by our Registered Migration Agent (MARN 1686595).
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