VEVO Check: How Visa Work Rights Are Confirmed, and What It Shows for a 482 Holder

A VEVO check shows a person’s current visa, its expiry date, its conditions and whether it allows work, and it is free to run in Home Affairs’ Visa Entitlement Verification Online system for the visa holder or, with the holder’s permission, for a registered organisation. A visa holder needs a travel document such as a passport or ImmiCard, a date of birth and one reference number: the transaction reference number (TRN), the visa grant number or the visa evidence number. An employer first creates an organisation ImmiAccount with its Australian Business Number (ABN) and requests the VEVO for organisations service, which Home Affairs must approve before checks can be run.

Illustration built from the Migration Regulations 1994; not a real VEVO record.

What is VEVO, and who can use it?

VEVO is Home Affairs’ free online system for checking the details and conditions of a visa, used by visa holders and by registered organisations the holder has given permission to (Home Affairs, Check visa conditions online (VEVO), updated 6 November 2024). Each organisation registers for a category that decides what it sees (Home Affairs, VEVO for organisations, updated 12 August 2025):

VEVO has four limits:

1. It shows only the visa in effect now.
2. It does not show previous visas or applications still being processed.
3. It does not check Australian passports or citizenship.
4. Foreign governments cannot register to use it.

How do you run a VEVO check?

A VEVO check is run in one of three ways: by the visa holder on the web, by the holder in the myVEVO app, or by a registered organisation through ImmiAccount.

As the visa holder

A visa holder checks their own visa in nine steps (Home Affairs, VEVO for visa holders, updated 23 September 2024):

With the myVEVO app

The myVEVO app runs the same check on a phone in six steps:

1. Download the free myVEVO app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
2. Create a PIN; three wrong entries reset it.
3. Turn on Touch ID or Face ID if you want faster access.
4. Enter your visa grant number or TRN and your date of birth.
5. Enter your travel document number and its country.
6. Accept the terms and conditions and submit.

As an employer or other organisation

A registered organisation checks a visa holder in seven steps (VEVO for organisations):

Emailing your visa details to an employer

A visa holder can send their VEVO details to an employer in three steps:

1. Open your visa details in VEVO.
2. Select “Send Email”.
3. Enter the recipient’s email address and your own.

What does a VEVO result show?

A VEVO result shows the fields in the table above, and three of them need a plain-words definition:

• Visa expiry date and must not arrive after date. The expiry date is when the visa ends and, for a holder in Australia, the date by which to leave, before midnight Canberra time. The must not arrive after date is the last day to enter Australia on the visa.
• In effect. The visa has started. A visa that has been granted but has not started, such as a bridging visa waiting behind a substantive visa, does not show.
• Travel facility. For a permanent visa, VEVO shows when the travel facility ends: after that date the holder needs a Resident Return visa to re-enter as a permanent resident, although the permanent visa itself continues.

How do employers check work rights, and how often?

An employer checks a worker’s work rights in VEVO before the person starts, and only with the worker’s permission; Home Affairs calls VEVO “the free online system” for this check (Home Affairs, Information for employers and labour hire organisations, updated 4 September 2026). The check matters because of four rules:

1. It is an offence to allow an unlawful non-citizen to work, or a lawful non-citizen to work in breach of a work condition, under sections 245AB and 245AC of the Migration Act 1958 (Home Affairs, Work-related contraventions, updated 21 September 2026).
2. The penalties apply for each worker, including workers sourced through recruitment or labour hire companies.
3. The employer saves the VEVO PDF, because compliance officers can ask for it.
4. The employer does not need a copy of the worker’s passport, and the Migration Act forbids taking a migrant worker’s passport.

How often to re-check is not published: Home Affairs sets no fixed interval.

In practice, employers re-check when a visa nears its expiry date or when a worker reports a new visa, because VEVO shows only the visa in effect on the day of the check.

The guide to the workplace rights of a 482 visa holder covers pay, underpayment and the protections that sit beside these employer duties.

What if the VEVO result looks wrong?

A VEVO result that looks wrong usually traces to the details entered or to the visa the check points at. Work through six checks (VEVO for visa holders):

1. Check each field for mixed-up letters and numbers, such as O and 0.
2. Use the reference number of the visa now in effect, not an earlier one.
3. An expired visa cannot be viewed in VEVO.
4. Tell Home Affairs about a new passport, so the visa is linked to it.
5. Conflicting details in Home Affairs’ records, such as two dates of birth, cause errors.
6. If it still fails, use the Visa Entitlement Verification Online enquiry form, with a copy of the travel document and a screenshot of the result.

A bridging visa granted with a new application does not show in VEVO while the current substantive visa is still in effect (Home Affairs, Check visa details and conditions, updated 4 May 2026). Changes to your passport, address or family details are reported to Home Affairs as set out in the guide to Form 1022 notification of changes in circumstances.

On a 482: what VEVO shows for a 482 holder

A 482 holder’s VEVO result shows condition 8607 on the primary holder and condition 8501 on every holder, as the Migration Regulations 1994 require (clauses 482.611 to 482.613):

1. Condition 8607 (primary holder only): work only in the nominated occupation and only for the sponsor, or in the Core Skills and Specialist Skills streams an associated entity of the sponsor; start work within 90 days of arrival or grant; and stop working for the sponsor for no more than 180 days at a time and 365 days in total across the visa.
2. Condition 8501 (every 482 holder): maintain adequate arrangements for health insurance while in Australia.
3. Condition 8303 is sometimes imposed as well, under clause 482.613.

Family members on the 482 carry condition 8501 but not condition 8607. The guide to 482 visa condition 8607 covers what counts as a breach and how the 180 days period works after a job ends.

Supplementary: the employer’s steps when sponsoring

VEVO confirms a worker’s current visa, but hiring someone on a 482 means sponsorship and an approved nomination before the worker starts; a new employer’s nomination must be approved before the 482 holder begins work for it (Home Affairs, 482 Change in situation). The guide on how to sponsor an employee sets out those steps in order.

An Australian migration lawyer makes a 482 more likely to succeed here because VEVO shows only the visa in effect today: it does not show a pending application, a bridging visa that has not yet started, or where a worker stands in the 180 days period after a job ends, so a worker or employer reading the screen alone can misjudge the worker’s position, and a lawyer reads the result against the conditions and the application history.