27/09/2026
You don’t finish sponsoring someone the day their visa is granted. That’s when it starts.
Most employers treat sponsorship as a paperwork event: nominate, wait, approved, done. It isn’t. As a sponsor you take on obligations that run for as long as the sponsorship lasts, not just up to the grant.
Three of them catch people out.
You have to keep the person on the terms you sponsored them for: same role, same salary arrangement, not something quietly different six months in.
You have to tell the Department when things change. A role changes, an address changes, the person leaves. There are events you’re required to report, and the timeframe to do it is short.
You have to keep records. Not “somewhere in an inbox”, but records you can actually produce if asked.
None of this is designed to catch you out. It catches people out anyway, because nobody explains it at the point where it would help: before you sponsor, not after something’s gone wrong.
If you’re sponsoring someone or about to, it’s worth twenty minutes to know exactly what you’ve signed up for.
Adam (Gurkan) Kocoglu
Registered Migration Agent, MARN 2418576
Australian Migration Co, Perth WA
Office +61 8 6555 7037 | WhatsApp +61 475 218 414
General information only, not personal migration advice. Speak to a registered migration agent about your own circumstances. This video is edited by AI.
