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Liana Allan is probably Australia's best known migration agent. Liana is the owner of Legal Training Australia Pty Ltd which is a professional development firm training Australian migration agents and owner of Visacorp Pty Ltd migration agency. Liana's main passion is serving the needs of the migration agent community and providing migrants with information that can truly assist them as they seek to create a new life in Australia. Liana plays netball twice a week and enjoys great food and the occasional glass of Shiraz. Liana lives in Sydney, Australia and has two children. Liana is married.
It's been a while now and I am wondering what agents think about the LegendCOM and the LexisNexis Professional Library subscription products.
I note that the LexisNexis professional library is being plugged heavily across the profession at the moment.
In my professional opinion, and in the opinion of the agents that work directly with me, we believe that the LegendCOM product is far superior to the LexisNexis product.
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Recently there has been a lot of media hype around children and vaccination. Do parents always have the final word on whether or not to vaccinate their children? On Tuesday 29 April 2014 at 5:30PM the ABC Radio Law Report hosted a programme on 'Vaccination and the Law'.
Essentially the programme covered what happens if parents disagree on whether to vaccinate their children and at what point the court steps in when there are disputes on vaccination? My question is this:
Should unvaccinated people, including children who are moving to Australia given a right to 'choose' not to vaccinate their children and themselves from deadly illnesses before they enter the migration zone?
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Migration Alliance RMA members will be disappointed to learn about the AL2-4 Student Visa lodgements. The following email was received by a MA member last week and sent into the DIBP:
I am sure you are familiar with the Level 2 -4 electronic lodgement of Student visa “trial” for students from China, India, Thailand and Indonesia. After more than 10 years(?), DIBP is still trialling?
My questions are:
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DIBP recently issued a new form 80 (dated 04/2014) where the 30 year requirement for travel and address history has been backtracked to the previous requirement of 10 years for all but refugee and humanitarian visa applicants – Looks like the DIBP is reading the MA website and paying attention to our lobbying. Great outcome!
Special thanks to Mark Northam on our Committee for this news.
Is it bad that I just mispelled the word MIGRATION in one of my newsletters? I spelled it migation. Which score would I get on an IELTS test for skilled migration purposes if I misspelled (or is it misspellt) the word 'migration'?
I would like to know how I would go in the written test. The heading of the email was:
$55.00 online migation CPD modules - only pay if you pass the module - no risk
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