---
title: "Standard business sponsor obligations compliance record"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law/sponsor-obligations-compliance-record"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a30-sponsor-obligations-compliance-record"
area_id: "A30"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A30-Z20261018-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Standard business sponsor obligations compliance record

> A record of the sponsorship obligations on the Home Affairs standard business sponsor page: notifications within 28 days, the nominated occupation, pay, costs, travel costs and records.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law/sponsor-obligations-compliance-record  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Immigration & Migration Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the authority it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when a standard business sponsor is checking, or being asked to show, that it has met its obligations for a sponsored worker. Read the labour agreement if there is one.

## Used for these tasks

- [Build the sponsor’s obligations compliance record for its sponsored workers](https://ailawframework.com/practice/immigration-and-migration-law/build-the-sponsor-s-obligations-compliance-record-for-its-sponsored-work.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may fill the record from the sponsor's payroll and notification log; the practitioner decides whether an obligation was met and what is sent to the Department.

**AI may:**

- Build the worker table and the 28-day notification log from the sponsor's records
- Flag a cost that the page says the sponsor must not transfer to the sponsored person or their sponsored family
- List the travel-cost request and whether it was paid within 30 days

**AI must not:**

- Must not advise that a sanction will or will not be imposed
- Must not treat the infringement and civil penalty figures as anything other than the 'up to' amounts on the page last updated 7 October 2026
- Must not draft a notification that is sent to the Department unless the practitioner has settled it

**The lawyer checks:**

- Each notifiable event is matched to the 28-day rule that applies to that type of sponsor
- The worker is still in the nominated occupation, under a written contract, and has not been supplied to an unrelated business
- Equivalent terms are checked only where annual earnings are under AUD250,000, unless the labour agreement says otherwise
- Recruitment and sponsorship costs have not been charged to the worker, and any travel-cost request was paid once, within 30 days

## Authorities

- [Department of Home Affairs, Sponsorship obligations for standard business sponsors, last updated 7 October 2026 (notifications, occupation, equivalent terms, costs, travel costs, records and sanctions)](https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/employing-and-sponsoring-someone/existing-sponsors/standard-business-accredited-obligations)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law/sponsor-obligations-compliance-record and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*