The Department collects your personal information for the purposes of administering the TRA programs including:
- processing and assessing your applications for a skills assessment or review
- confirming your authorisation of a representative or migration agent, and to provide contact details for that representative or migration agent
- allowing you to make a payment of fees to the Department so you can lodge an application
- allowing the Department to confirm payment and process refunds as applicable
- conducting investigations and ensuring compliance with relevant laws, awards or standards
- ensuring compliance with the Commonwealth Fraud and Corruption Control Framework (2024) through the investigation of fraud and corruption, including the implementation of fraud and corruption prevention strategies
- performing our legislative and administrative functions
- policy development, research and evaluation in relation to functions and activities of the department
- data sharing or data integration with other Australian Government agencies, including but not limited to, data sharing or data integration with the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project
- complaints handling
- administering requests received by us under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act) and the Privacy Act
- the publication on the internet of material which may contain personal information, such as departmental reports and other documents; photographs, video recordings and audio recordings and posts and comments on our social media platforms
- program management
- policy advice and other support to our Ministers
- contract management, and
- management of correspondence with the public.
Personal information collected by the Department will only be used for the purposes outlined above. If the Department is not able to collect your personal information, your application will not be able to proceed.
TRA may collect your personal information from a third party, such as our service providers assisting in the administration of TRA programs, and any representative or migration agent that you authorise, as part of the administration of our programs.
When providing information during your application to TRA, you should try to not provide private information unnecessarily. Do not provide your Tax File Number (TFN) unless requested by TRA. If your application evidence, for example a payslip, contains a TFN, please redact this before submitting it to TRA.