As a standard business sponsor, you must fulfill sponsorship obligations. This is important to retain or renew your standard business sponsorship.

Some sponsorship obligations include:

• Inform the department if there are changes to your business such as legal name, registration details, business structure, and other important business details.
• Inform the department whether your business becomes insolvent or bankrupt, goes into liquidation or administration, or ceases to exist as a legal entity.
• Inform the department if the person you sponsor ceases employment with you has a change in duties, or did not commence working with you.
• Ensure your employee works only in the nominated occupation.
• Ensure equivalent terms and conditions of employment are met for your sponsored employees.
• Ensure you do not engage in discriminatory recruitment practices.
• Maintain records to show your compliance with your sponsorship obligations.
• Provide records or information if requested by a departmental officer.
• Pay and assume all costs of becoming a sponsor, nomination charges, migration agent costs associated with sponsorship and nomination applications.
• Pay reasonable and necessary travel costs to let the sponsored employee and their sponsored family members, leave Australia.
• Cooperate with the inspectors of the department.