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Superyacht Crew Visa Subclass 488: What this Superyacht Crew visa lets you do
If you are granted this Superyacht Crew visa, you can:
You cannot do any work that is not part of the usual day-to-day routine maintenance or business of the superyacht.
The captain or owner of the vessel that you will be working on must either be an approved Superyacht Crew sponsor or have applied to become one.
If you plan to get a new passport, you should do so before applying for your visa. In most cases, you and your family members must have valid passports to be granted this Superyacht Crew visa.
There is no application charge for this Superyacht Crew visa.
You might have to pay other costs, such as the costs of health assessments, police certificates, or any other certificates or tests. You are responsible for making the necessary arrangements.
The Superyacht Crew visa (subclass 488) usually lasts for 12 months from the date it is granted, although stays of three or six months may also be granted.
To apply for a further visa as a superyacht crew member while in Australia you must apply for a Temporary Activity visa (subclass 408) while you continue to hold the visa.
If you are granted this Superyacht Crew visa, you can:
You cannot do any work that is not part of the usual day-to-day routine maintenance or business of the superyacht.
You must comply with all visa conditions and Australian laws.
You can work only as a superyacht crew member in Australia, and only for your sponsor. You cannot do any work for the sponsor or owner of the superyacht that is not part of the day-to-day routine maintenance or business of the superyacht.
You cannot work for any other person or for yourself.
If your employment ceases, you must do one of the following:
If you want to change your employer, you will need a new sponsorship and a new Superyacht Crew visa (subclass 488).
To be granted a further Superyacht Crew visa (subclass 488) while in Australia, you must apply either while your Superyacht Crew visa (subclass 488) is still valid or while you hold another valid Australian visa.
Tell the department of immigration and border protection if your circumstances change. This includes a new residential address, a new passport, or a pregnancy, birth or death in your family.
You can use the following forms:
If you applied online you might be able to update your address and passport details using ImmiAccount.
You must comply with the following sponsorship obligations:
You are responsible for meeting all your obligations, even if you have someone else authorised to act on your behalf, including a migration agent.
You must cooperate with inspectors appointed under the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) who are investigating whether:
This obligation:
Cooperating with inspectors can include (but is not limited to):
You must keep records that show you have your complied with your obligations. All records must be in a reproducible format and some must be capable of verification by an independent person.
You must keep a record of:
This obligation starts on the day the sponsorship is approved.
This obligation ends two years after both of the following:
You do not need to keep any records for more than five years.
You must provide records or information, if they are requested by a departmental officer that goes to determining whether:
We may ask you in writing to provide records or information which relate to your sponsorship obligations, and any other matters that relate to your sponsorship of visa holders. You must provide the records or information requested if it is a record or information that:
This obligation starts to apply on the day the sponsorship is approved or work agreement commences.
This obligation ends two years after:
You must tell the department of immigration and border protection in writing when certain events occur. Send the information by registered post or electronic mail to a specified address and within certain timeframes of the event occurring.
Events where a sponsor must provide information to the department of immigration and border protection include:
This obligation starts to apply on the day the standard business sponsorship is approved or the work agreement commences.
This obligation ends two years after:
Superyacht Crew Visa Subclass 488: Where to send a notice of an event or change
You must send details of these events by email or to one of the department of immigration and border protection state or territory offices listed below.
By email (preferred): [email protected]
By registered post:
You must not take any action or seek to take any action that would result in the transfer or charging of costs (including migration agent costs) to another person, such as a sponsored visa holder or their sponsored family members this includes costs that relate to:
This obligation:
Sponsors are also required to pay certain costs associated with becoming a sponsor and not pass these costs, in any form, onto another person. These include:
In the event a primary sponsored person (or any of their sponsored family members) becomes an unlawful non-citizen, you may be required to pay the costs incurred by the Commonwealth in locating and/or removing the primary or secondary sponsored persons from Australia.
You may be liable to pay the Commonwealth the difference between the actual costs incurred by the Commonwealth (up to a maximum of AUD10 000) less any amount which may have already been paid under the obligation to pay travel costs to enable sponsored persons to leave Australia (see ‘Obligation to pay travel costs’ above).
This obligation starts on the day the person you sponsored becomes an unlawful non-citizen. It ends five years after they leave Australia. This means that the department might, up to five years after the person you have sponsored has left Australia, give you a letter requiring payment of the costs that the Commonwealth paid to locate and remove the person you sponsored prior to their departure from Australia.
You must comply with your obligations as a sponsor. We monitor your compliance with the sponsorship obligations and whether your visa holders are upholding their visa conditions.
We monitor you while you are a sponsor and for up to five years after you cease being a sponsor. We do this routinely and in response to information provided to the department of immigration and border protection, and in three main ways:
Your compliance with the sponsorship obligations might be investigated by Immigration inspectors who have investigative powers under the Migration Act 1958. Failure to cooperate with inspectors is a breach of the sponsorship obligations
If you do not meet your obligations, we could take one or more of the following actions:
Administrative
Enforceable undertaking
You could be invited to enter into an enforceable undertaking. Enforceable undertakings require you to promise, in writing, to undertake to complete certain actions to demonstrate that the failures have been rectified and won’t happen again.
Civil
Other circumstances in which administrative action might be taken
In addition, you could also have sanctions imposed if:
The types of actions that could be taken depend on whether the sponsor is a standard business sponsor or has made a work agreement.
If you have sponsored someone under a work agreement, we could suspend or terminate it in accordance with the clauses of the particular work agreement.
Source: The Australian Department of Home Affairs (www.homeaffairs.gov.au). Please visit www.border.gov.au to get updated information.
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