Liana Allan has received a call from a TV network today requesting that she assist them to respond to a complaint. 

According to the Producer who called Ms Allan, 'someone' has emailed in a complaint stating that Migration Alliance is a private organisation, and that they have been duped by Liana Allan, or words to that effect.

The complaint apparently also suggested that Migration Alliance is not a peak professional body and that it only got its members by 'lifting a list of agents' from somewhere, or words to that effect.

Partnering with Migration Alliance, our national SIV road show continues with Perth on Monday 30^th November. The event will showcase NAB’s integrated banking and investment solutions to meet the needs of your Significant Investor Visa clients.

Speakers include Bruno Delfante (Business Migration Centre of the WA Government), NAB’s SIV Concierge team of migrant banking and wealth professionals, and a local venture capital manager.

You will also meet investment specialists from NAB Asset Management and JB Were who make up NAB’s SIV Complying portfolio blends covering Australian small companies, corporate fixed interest and property securities.

Migration Alliance will be holding a Christmas Party in MELBOURNE on Wednesday 2nd December.

Venue:  Kri Kri

Address:  37 - 41 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne

Date:  Wednesday 2nd December

The following information has been received from VETASSESS:

VETASSESS is pleased to announce that, following feedback from our stakeholders, we will be revising the requirements for documents submitted for Skills Assessment for General Professional Occupations to be certified. This has been made possible through ongoing improvements to our internal systems and processes.

Presently, agents and applicants are required to provide certified copies of the following: photograph, proof of identity, change of name, qualification aware certificate, academic transcript, employment evidence, resume/cv, and any other supporting documentation as requested.

Declaring to the ABC that he did not scam anyone and that it was his business partner who scammed visa hopefuls has not stopped the arrest of Abel Prasad by the Australian Federal Police.

Watch the ABC Report here

Police sources have told the ABC that both the NSW and Queensland Police as well as the Immigration Department that they have been investigating Abel Prasad of SVC Legal for some time.

Prasad however says he never acted as a migration agent and denies any wrong-doing. Prasad, who is the son of the late, eminent South Australian doctor and leading Fijian philanthropist Dr Umanand Prasad, now faces 23 charges relating to GST fraud.

On ABC’s 7.30 report last night, Indian student Jaspal Marok alleged that he handed Prasad his life-savings of $17,000 on the promise of a visa and job with a salary of $65,000 at one of Prasad’s companies, Snappy Digital only to subsequently be handed a forged visa from Prasad's business.