• This obligation commences from the time a sponsor is approved.
• This obligation ceases five years after the sponsorship ceases.

• If the nominated person holds a visa, this obligation commences from the time the nomination is approved.
• If the nominated person does not hold a visa, this obligation commences from the time the visa granted.
• This obligation ceases when the primary sponsored person ceases employment, or is granted a further substantive visa.

The standard business sponsor must pay reasonable and necessary travel costs to enable the sponsored persons to leave Australia if the costs have been requested in writing by the sponsored persons, or the department and the costs have not already been paid by the sponsor in accordance with this obligation.

The costs will be considered reasonable and necessary provided they:

• include travel from the primary sponsored person's usual place of residence in Australia to the place of departure from Australia;
• include travel from Australia to the country (for which the person holds a passport) specified in the request to pay travel costs; and
• are paid within 30 days of receiving the request; and are for economy class air travel or, where unavailable, a reasonable equivalent.

• If the nominated person holds a visa, this obligation commences from the time the nomination is approved.
• If the nominated person does not hold a visa, this obligation commences from the time the visa granted.
• This obligation ceases when another nomination is approved, a further substantive visa is granted or when the visa holder has left Australia and no longer holds the Subclass 457 visa.

• In relation to a primary visa holder, this obligation starts to apply on the day on which the primary sponsored person becomes an unlawful non-citizen; and ceases five years after the primary sponsored person leaves Australia.
• In relation to a secondary visa holder, this obligation starts to apply on the day on which the secondary sponsored person becomes an unlawful non-citizen; and ceases five years after the secondary sponsored person leaves Australia.

• This obligation commences from the time a sponsor is approved.
• This obligation ceases two years after the last sponsored person ceases with the sponsor.

The standard business sponsor must provide records or information that goes to determining whether:

• a sponsorship obligation is being, or has been, complied with; and
• other circumstances, in which the Minister may take administrative action, exist or have existed
• on request and in the manner and timeframe requested by the Minister.

• This obligation commences from the time a sponsor is approved.
• This obligation ceases two years after the last sponsored person ceases with the sponsor.

The standard business sponsor must provide certain information to the department when certain events occur. This information must be provided by registered post or electronic mail, to a specified address and within certain timeframes of the event occurring.
See: Obligation to Provide Information to Immigration when Certain Events Occur

• This obligation commences from the time a sponsor is approved.
• This obligation ceases when the sponsorship ceases, and where the employer is no longer sponsoring a visa holder.

The standard business sponsor must ensure that the primary sponsored person does not work in an occupation other than the occupation that is the subject of the most recent approved nomination for the person. If a sponsor wants to employ a primary sponsored person in a different occupation, the sponsor must lodge a new nomination in respect of that occupation for the primary sponsored person.

• If the nominated person holds a visa, this obligation commences from the time the nomination is approved.
• If the nominated person does not hold a visa, this obligation commences from the time the visa granted.
• This obligation ceases when another nomination is approved, a further substantive visa is granted or when the visa holder has left Australia and no longer holds the Subclass 457 visa

The standard business sponsor must not recover, or seek to recover, from the primary or secondary sponsored person, all or part of the costs (including migration agent costs):

• that relate specifically to the recruitment of the primary sponsored person
• associated with becoming or being a sponsor or former approved sponsor.

• This obligation ceases on the concurrence of the following two events:

1. the approved sponsorship ceases; and
2. there are no sponsored persons in relation to the sponsor.