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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.
See the new Form 80.pdf. Example of hilarious questions:
18 Your address history for the last 30 years
Include:
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Let's just get it out there once and for all so that nobody can pretend it isn't happening.
People are buying their way into Australia and no, I don't mean via the SIV $5 million visa.
I am talking about buying their way in on a 457 and, or more importantly, buying their permanent residency visa via employer sponsored migration.
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When is the DIBP going to do something about unregistered practice? When is DIBP going to help prevent vulnerable consumers from being duped by the DIBP's 'Offshore ID' status given out to unregistered agents? These ID's are being used to sell a range of immigration services to unwitting visa applicants, not just students.
The 'Offshore ID' is paraded around as an endorsement tool by unregistered agents overseas looking to instill confidence and security in potential clients who may be seeking to migrate to Australia. The issue is that most of the time, the potential clients don't even realise that there is such a thing as a RMA in existence on the planet. We can thank the OMARA and their $0.00 spend on advertising last financial year for that one. If migrants see a person with an ID, they, like me, would automatically assume that this person was a government endorsed immigration professional. Who knows what spin and lies are being sold to these unsuspecting visa applicants about how that 'offshore ID' was obtained.
I received the following email this week from a RMA who is of Indian heritage (I will keep their ID annonymous):
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The Student Visa Program Quarterly Report (December 2013 quarter) is on the department’s website at: http://www.immi.gov.au/media/statistics/study/. The March 2014 data should be available by the end of April.
The report of the Review of the Student Visa Assessment Level Framework is available through the following link:
http://www.immi.gov.au/students/_pdf/review-student-visa-assessment-level-framework-2013.pdf
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Migration Alliance members would be interested in the latest SIV statistics which were sent today by the DIBP. Visa grants to the end of March 2014 are 174 so this is 30 visa grants up from 144 from the end of February 2014. This is a continuation of the pace from the previous three months.
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