Visa Condition 8107 Explained: The 180-Day Rule (and Who Doesn't Get It)
What condition 8107 actually requires, how it differs from condition 8607 on a subclass 482 and condition 8608 on a subclass 494, and why the 180-day, 365-day allowance added from 1 July 2024 only applies to part of condition 8107 — not all of it. Figures as at September 2026.
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Chapters
- 0:00 Job ended on a sponsored visa?
- 0:11 Three related conditions
- 0:27 180 consecutive days
- 0:45 8107 isn't one rule.
- 1:02 In force from 1 July 2024
- 1:13 The old '60 days' answer
- 1:29 Changing employers:
- 1:41 Breach risk:
- 1:59 Where to read more
Transcript
Your sponsored visa job just ended. How long do you actually have before the visa itself is at risk?
Three related conditions do this work. Condition 8107 sits on a subclass 457 and a few other visas. Condition 8607 sits on a subclass 482. Condition 8608 sits on a subclass 494.
Stop working for your sponsor, and the best-known part of the rule gives you up to 180 consecutive days at a time to sort it out.
That allowance is capped again across the whole visa: no more than 365 days in total, added up over every gap you take.
Here's the catch almost nobody mentions. Condition 8107 is not one rule. Only subclause 3, for someone on, or previously on, a subclass 457, carries this 180 and 365 day allowance at all.
The whole allowance is recent. It was added from 1 July 2024, under the Migration Amendment Work Related Visa Conditions Regulations 2024.
If you've read online that you only get 60 days, that's the old rule, and it's out of date.
The time is for 3 things: finding a new approved sponsor, applying for a different visa, or arranging to leave Australia.
Changing sponsors isn't just resigning and starting elsewhere. The new employer generally has to become an approved sponsor, then lodge a new nomination, before sponsored work can continue.
Breaching the condition can put the visa at risk of cancellation, and can complicate any application you make afterwards.
Which condition, and which subclause, is actually on your visa is written on your grant notice and on VEVO, worth checking properly before you make a move.
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