Partners

The migration desk behind your placements

You place the people; we give the visa advice and manage the sponsor compliance behind each placement.

For recruiters

Visa advice is regulated. We handle it.

Unless a narrow exemption applies, only a registered migration agent or an Australian legal practitioner may give immigration assistance, and only they may charge for it. A recruiter who advises candidates on visas risks committing an offence under the Migration Act. That is not a technicality, and it is the reason a partner arrangement exists rather than an informal referral. Visa strategy, eligibility assessment and lodgement sit with a Registered Migration Agent for your client’s placements. You source and screen; we advise and lodge.

For labour-hire sponsors

The outsourced migration & compliance desk.

Labour-hire and on-hire sponsors carry sponsor obligations for every sponsored worker they place. On retainer, the desk manages the sponsor-compliance function with you: nominations and visas as your consultants place people, obligation monitoring, and every notifiable event you tell us about in time, lodged within its deadline. The obligations stay with your business in law. On a retainer we manage them with you, but we can’t take them over.

The sponsor is the business that employs the worker, or an associated entity. A standard business sponsor generally can’t place a sponsored worker under an unrelated host’s control; on-hire arrangements need a labour agreement. Sending your own sponsored technician to work on a client’s site, under your supervision, isn’t on-hire.

How partnering works

Recruiters work with us in one of two ways. You can introduce us to a client when a placement needs a visa, or you can name Resource Visa as the migration desk in your own proposals, in wording we agree with you first. Either way, your client, the employer, engages Resource Visa directly, and the visa advice comes from a Registered Migration Agent. Labour-hire sponsors engage the desk on retainer. You keep the placement relationship. Any partner arrangement is agreed in writing and disclosed to the client before we act.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Can a recruiter give visa advice to a candidate or client?

Unless a narrow exemption applies, only a registered migration agent or an Australian legal practitioner may give immigration assistance, and only they may charge for it. A recruiter who advises candidates on visas risks committing an offence under the Migration Act. Visa strategy, eligibility assessment and lodgement sit with a Registered Migration Agent for your client’s placements.

How are partner arrangements disclosed?

In writing, to the client, in every engagement.

What does the outsourced compliance desk cover for a labour-hire sponsor?

Nominations and visas as your consultants place people, obligation monitoring, and every notifiable event you tell us about in time, lodged within its deadline. The obligations stay with your business in law. On a retainer we manage them with you, but we can’t take them over.

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