Run a full Australian visa check from a passport photo
Upload a passport image and get the holder’s work, study and residency entitlements straight from the Department of Home Affairs VEVO system. No manual data entry, an audit-ready PDF every time, from one check to thousands.
VEVO: Visa Entitlement Verification Online.
Per worker. Even if you did not know.
Verifying work rights before and during employment is a legal obligation under the Migration Act 1958, reinforced by the Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Act 2024. Penalties apply per worker, up to significant six-figure amounts, even where the employer did not know.
One check at a time
The free VEVO portal makes you log in and key every passport by hand, one worker at a time. At any real volume that does not scale.
Penalties land per worker
Under the strengthened compliance regime, penalties apply per worker, up to significant six-figure amounts, even without intent.
Checks go stale
Visas expire and conditions change. A check that was valid at onboarding can be out of date months later, with nothing to flag it.
Audit scramble
When Home Affairs or an auditor asks for proof, loose screenshots and spreadsheets are not a defensible record.
Upload, submit, done. No keystrokes, no portal logins.
Three steps run on a single upload. FoxID OCR reads the passport, validates it and queries VEVO, then returns the entitlement on screen and as a PDF.
Upload the passport
Drag in a passport image or capture it from a document reader. There are no fields to type.
Submit to VEVO
FoxID OCR reads the data page, validates it and queries the Department of Home Affairs VEVO system, with the holder’s consent captured.
Get the result
Work, study and residency entitlements appear on screen and download as an audit-ready PDF.
See exactly what each visa allows, without immigration expertise
A VEVO check returns the holder’s in-effect visa and its conditions: whether they can work, study or reside, and any limits that apply. It does not provide a copy of the visa or grant letter.
- Work rights: full, limited or none
- Study entitlement and enrolment-linked limits
- Residency status: temporary or permanent
- Expiry date, so you know when to re-check
Everything you need to verify once and re-verify automatically
Every check is pre-filled, consented, recorded and repeatable, so a single upload becomes an audit-defensible record you can stand behind.
Automated OCR pre-fill
FoxID OCR reads the passport data page and fills the VEVO query for you. No keying, no transcription errors.
Face-recognition confirmation
Match a live selfie to the passport portrait so the visa is tied to the person presenting it, not just the document.
Scheduled re-verification
Set checks to repeat automatically, so a status change or new condition is caught without anyone remembering to look.
Expiry alerts
Get notified before a visa lapses, so no one keeps working past the date their entitlement ends.
Consent capture
Home Affairs requires the holder’s permission before each check. Consent is captured and recorded as part of the workflow.
Audit trail and PDF
Every check produces an audit-ready PDF and a timestamped trail you can hand to an auditor or to Home Affairs.
Built for the sectors that hire at volume and at speed
Wherever casual, seasonal or international workforces move fast, a VEVO check on every worker keeps you inside the Migration Act without slowing onboarding.
Hospitality
Casual and student workforces with tight shift turnarounds. Confirm the fortnightly work cap before you roster.
Agriculture & horticulture
Seasonal working-holiday labour that moves between sites and employers across a picking season.
Labour hire
You place workers across many host employers, so chain-of-responsibility liability sits with you.
Aged & disability care
Continuous, regulated care rosters where every worker’s right to work must stay current.
Recruitment
High volumes of candidates to screen before placement, without manual portal logins for each one.
Universities & RTOs
Enrolment and campus employment under ESOS obligations for international students.
One check, or five thousand, or straight into your systems
The same VEVO engine runs three ways, so you can start with a single browser check and scale to a nightly batch or an embedded API without changing tools.
Single online check
Upload one passport in the browser and read the result on screen in seconds. Nothing to install.
Bulk batch
Submit a CSV or a folder of passport images and get every result back with an audit PDF. Up to 5,000 checks per day.
API integration
Trigger a check from your own systems and receive the entitlement back in your workflow.
A screenshot is not a compliance program
The free VEVO portal confirms one visa at a time and leaves you to assemble the evidence. Automated checks capture, consent, record and repeat, by design.
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The essentials on what a VEVO check returns, consent, scale and record-keeping.
It returns the visa holder’s in-effect visa details and conditions from VEVO, including whether they can work and any work restrictions such as hour limits. It does not provide a copy of the visa or grant letter.
Yes. Home Affairs requires the visa holder’s permission before their details are checked through VEVO. The workflow captures consent as part of the check.
Yes. Checks run as a single online lookup, as a bulk batch from a CSV or a folder of passport images, or as an API call embedded in your own systems.
Visa status and conditions change and visas expire, so checks should be repeated. Scheduled re-verification and expiry alerts catch changes automatically.
IDV Pacific is a Gateway provider for VEVO Business Services for the Australian Department of Home Affairs. Checks are submitted through the official VEVO system.
A passport image is enough. FoxID OCR reads the data page and validates it, so there is no manual data entry, and the result returns on screen and as an audit-ready PDF.
See a live VEVO check on your own workflow
Book a demo and we’ll run a real VEVO check end to end: upload, OCR, entitlement result and the audit PDF, at the scale you actually hire.
- Upload to result in seconds
- Online, batch or API
- Audit-ready PDF and trail
- Consent captured on every check
Australian Visa Checks run against the Department of Home Affairs VEVO system with the visa holder’s consent captured for every check. A VEVO check confirms in-effect visa entitlements and conditions; it does not replace legal advice on employer obligations under the Migration Act 1958.