Be tough on clients over learning English, a client who doesn't make the English grade is a client who doesn't get the visa
It looks like the Migration Institute of Australia will lose its role as the board of the Migration Agents Registration Authority................................
The AAT dismissed a complaint against a migration agent finding that the allegations .........................................................
One example of mishandling client money is Maarbani v MARA [2008] AATA 727 (20 August 2008)...........................
Unregistered migration agents who give migration advice will no longer have a right to receive documents ..................
The High Court in Shi v MARA [2008] HCA 31 (30.7.08) took a very common sense approach to the regulation of migration agents, finding against the restrictive approach urged by MARA....
Any ambiguity in the Code of Conduct should be resolved in favour of the migration agent....
In Seymour v MARA [2007] FCAFC 76 (4.6.07), a former solicitor failed before the Full Federal Court to overturn a decision by MARA not to re-register him. Here are the facts of the case:...
Giving assurances to clients which are not correct may lead to a suspension of registration as a migration agent. Often because of the exigencies of practice one may not get around to doing what one promised the client that one would do....
Rushed hearings have an inherent risk of error as the Full Federal Court decision of MIAC v SZLIX [2008] FCAFC 17 (5 March 2008) demonstrates....
