HR dropping the ball….. again
Bhavik Shah is an ITS Desktop Support Team member in a continuing position.
Bhavik has been in constant communication with UQ HR requesting an Employee Nomination (subclass 186) - Direct Entry Scheme, since August 2025. The Employee Nomination (subclass 186) is a permanent residency visa for skilled workers. At no point has UQ HR appropriately addressed his request. Instead, they have consistently and continually declined to provide sponsorship. Nomination and sponsorship are very different schemes. Sponsorship puts a considerable burden on the sponsor (UQ in this scenario). Nomination creates little to no burden on UQ as it is a one-off nomination and not an ongoing sponsorship arrangement.
Bhavik has on multiple occasions outlined the differences between Employer Nomination and Sponsorship for HR. He has conducted extensive research on both visas, creating presentations clearly outlining the differences, and providing links to federal government resources in the hope that HR would realise their error. Despite Bhavik’s efforts, HR has continued to only reference Employer Sponsorship and completely ignore Bhavik’s numerous attempts to point out that sponsorship and nomination are different schemes.
To date, Bhavik has received only generic responses about sponsorship which clearly demonstrate that HR has not understood and considered Bhavik’s very reasonable request. The only meaningful consideration given to the request was when his senior manager was asked to write a business case supporting retaining Bhavik instead of recruiting a new worker. Despite this, the decision did not shift and the same response of “We won’t sponsor Bhavik” with no justification was received.
Since August 2025, Bhavik, his team leader, his manager, and his senior manager have provided clear evidence that they have these two, very different, schemes confused- 60 emails, numerous meetings and countless hours writing & researching, but HR are constantly disregarding their efforts and appear to prefer to remain uninformed on this issue.
Sydney University, Queensland Health and Queensland Education all have policies outlining the requirements for Employer Nomination under the 186 direct entry scheme. Bhavik, and his supervisors, have provided more than enough to satisfy the government’s requirements.
Sign the petition to get HR to nominate Bhavik here.
You can find further resources outlining the subclass 186 scheme at the federal government website linked below
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/employer-nomination-scheme-186/
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/employer-nomination-scheme-186/direct-entry-stream