For Employers
You've found the right person. They're just not in Australia.
Sponsoring a skilled worker, whether they're overseas or already in Australia and need sponsorship to work here, is a process most businesses have never been through, and it has three moving parts.
Your business has to be approved as a sponsor. The role has to be nominated. Then the visa is decided. We manage all three together, and we tell you what it costs and how long it takes before you commit to anything.
First, your business becomes a sponsor.
This is the part most employers don't know exists. Before anyone applies for a visa, your business has to be approved to sponsor.
Standard Business Sponsorship
For skilled roles you're filling properly. It's what you need in place before you can sponsor anyone on a 482 or a 494.
Temporary Activity Sponsorship
For people coming to do something specific and time-limited: workplace training, sport, entertainment, events.
Accredited Sponsor
Once you're an approved standard business sponsor with a track record, accreditation gets your applications processed faster.
Then, the visa.
Skills in Demand
A skilled worker for a role you can't fill locally. The most common route, and usually the quickest.
Training
Structured workplace training: meeting an occupational requirement, or building skills in an eligible role.
Employer Nomination Scheme
Permanent, for a worker you want to keep. Sometimes available from the start, more often once they've been in the role.
Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional
For businesses in regional Australia, with access to a wider range of occupations.
Labour Agreements
For workforce needs the standard programs don't cover. Negotiated with government, slower to set up.
Designated Area Migration Agreement
For employers in designated regions, with access to occupations and concessions not available anywhere else.
Most businesses that call us have never sponsored anyone.
That's normal, not a problem. We tell you exactly what your business needs to show, what it costs, and what you're committing to keep up afterward.
Talk to Nexo"We didn't know the first thing about the visa system, and it looked complicated from the outside. Nexo kept us informed the whole way and explained things in language we could follow. Honestly, it was a relief."Employer · Temporary Activity sponsorship · Queensland
One approval opens six routes
What sponsorship actually asks of you
Approval as a sponsor. A genuine role, paid at the going rate. And obligations that continue for as long as your worker is with you.
Keeping records, telling the Department
Obligations that continue for as long as your worker is with you: keeping records, telling the Department when things change.
Making sure the role is genuine
Making sure the job stays the job you said it was. Most of the trouble we see comes from that last part, months after everyone thought the process was finished.
Sponsorship made clearer.
We work out which sponsorship your business needs, match the visa to the role, and prepare the sponsorship, nomination and visa together so they don't hold each other up.