Australia Visa Conditions 8578 and 8580: When You Must Notify Immigration (2026)

Plain-language guide · general information, not immigration advice

If your visa carries condition 8578, you must notify Immigration of any change to your residential address, email address, phone number, passport details, your employer's address, or the address of the location where you work — within 14 days after the change occurs. If it carries condition 8580 and the Minister asks you in writing, you must provide evidence of your residential address, each employer's address, each work location, and any educational institution you attend within 28 days of the request date. Both rules come from the Federal Register of Legislation page for the Migration Regulations 1994, Schedule 8, as published as at September 2026. This is general information about the published text rather than advice on an individual case, so a specific visa should always be read against its own recorded conditions and the current official wording.

Does every Australian visa carry these reporting conditions?

No. The note attached to each condition in Schedule 8 states that whether a visa of a particular class may be made subject to the condition depends on the relevant provision in Schedule 2 of the Migration Regulations 1994. In practice that means the condition is not automatic: it attaches because the subclass you hold allows or requires it, and subclasses differ.

The same Schedule also contains conditions on completely different subjects — for example, condition 8573 (no more than 12 months in Australia in any 24-month period), 8575 (no more than 7 months in any 12-month period), 8576 (no more than 10 months in any 12-month period) and 8579 (living, working and studying only in a designated regional area for certain Subclass 491 and 494 holders).

What exactly does condition 8578 require you to report?

Condition 8578 lists six items. A change to any of them must be notified within 14 days after the change occurs:

your residential address;
an email address of yours;
a phone number of yours;
your passport details;
the address of an employer of yours;
the address of the location of a position in which you are employed.

Two details matter. The clock runs from the day the change happens, not from the day you get around to reporting it. And the list is cumulative — moving house and changing your phone number are two separate notifiable changes, not one.

Assume a visa holder signs a new lease and takes effect on 10 May, and also switches mobile numbers the same week. If the visa is subject to 8578, both changes need to be notified by 24 May.

What does condition 8580 add on top of that?

Condition 8580 is triggered the other way round: it applies when the Minister requests, in writing, that you provide evidence. The request can cover any or all of:

your residential address;
the address of each employer of yours;
the address of each location of each position in which you are employed;
the address of an educational institution attended by you.

The deadline is 28 days after the date of the request. So 8578 is a duty to volunteer information when something changes; 8580 is a duty to prove it when asked.

How do the two deadlines differ?

Condition	What triggers it	What you must do	Deadline
8578	A change occurs to a listed detail	Notify Immigration of the change	14 days after the change occurs
8580	The Minister requests it in writing	Provide evidence of the requested details	28 days after the date of the request

Assume a holder moved in May and receives a written request from the Minister in August asking for evidence of their residential address. Under condition 8580 the 28 days run from the August request date — not from the move.

What happens if a condition is breached?

The Schedule 8 note points to the Migration Act 1958: sections 41 and 116 to 119 deal with cancellation for breaches of conditions. That is the mechanism the legislation provides; how it applies depends entirely on the facts and on the visa, and this article cannot predict an outcome for any individual case. What the conditions themselves make clear is that the obligation is on the holder, and the deadlines are short — 14 days and 28 days respectively.

How do I know which conditions are attached to my visa?

Conditions attach through the relevant Schedule 2 provision for the visa class, and the set that applies to you is the one recorded with your grant. Since both the regulations and the criteria for individual subclasses change, the reliable check is the current official text of the Migration Regulations 1994 plus the conditions recorded on your own visa record. Treat general explainers — including this one — as orientation, not as the final word on your situation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to tell Immigration when I move house in Australia?

If your visa is subject to condition 8578, yes: a change to your residential address must be notified within 14 days after the change occurs. Condition 8580 separately requires you to provide evidence of your residential address within 28 days if the Minister requests it in writing.

Is a new email address or phone number reportable?

Under condition 8578 both are listed — "an email address of the holder" and "a phone number of the holder" — and each change carries the same 14-day deadline from the day the change occurs.

What if I get a new passport?

Passport details are one of the six items in condition 8578, so a new passport has to be notified within 14 days of the change, assuming the condition is attached to your visa.

My employer moved offices, or I was moved to a different site. Does that count?

Yes, and the condition treats them separately: it lists the address of an employer of the holder and the address of the location of a position in which the holder is employed. A change to either is notifiable within 14 days.

Does condition 8580 only apply if something has changed?

No. Condition 8580 is triggered by a written request from the Minister, not by a change. If the Minister requests it in writing, the holder must provide evidence of the listed details — residential address, each employer's address, each work location, and any educational institution attended — within 28 days after the date of the request.

What if I miss the 14-day deadline?

Breach and cancellation of conditions are dealt with under the Migration Act 1958, sections 41 and 116 to 119, as the Schedule 8 note states. The consequence in any given case turns on the facts and the visa, so this should be read as a statement of where the law places the matter, not as a prediction of what will happen to you.