The Department of Home Affairs will obtain data from the ATO to identify whether business sponsors are complying with their sponsorship obligations (e.g., paying visa holders correctly) and whether temporary skilled visa holders are complying with their visa conditions (e.g., to work only for an approved employer).
The Department will provide to the ATO biographical details (including name, address and date of birth) of clients who are, or were in the three most recent financial years, holders of Skills in Demand or Temporary Skills Shortage (subclasses 457 and 482) primary visas.
These details will be electronically matched against ATO data holdings. Where there is an identity match, the ATO will return Single Touch Payroll employment data for the relevant individual(s) to the Department.
It is estimated that records will be shared relating to around 58,000 individuals.