Australian Immigration Daily News

Migration Alliance has received information from the MRT-RRT this afternoon.  The MRT-RRT have asked that Migration Alliance inform migration agents as follows:

Online lodgement of new applications for review by the Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal (the tribunals) is available on the tribunals’ website.

Online lodgement is a convenient service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Applications can be lodged online from any computer that has internet connection, an up-to-date browser and JavaScript enabled. Application lodgement by hand, post and fax is still available. The MRT application fee can also be paid when lodging online, through a secure online payment system that accepts MasterCard and Visa credit cards.

Nobody ever tells you how hard it is going to be when you first sign up to do the RMA course.  At first it seems like a very cool and perhaps prestigious way of earning a living.  Not only that but it seems like a living where helping others to achieve their dreams of a new life in a new country will also have an altruistic aspect to it.

Little does anyone know how hard it really is to be a registered migration agent.

Let me tell you a little bit about my suffering as an agent since 2001 so that somehow I might be able to comfort you in your time of grief.   I am not sure how to write this other than to list the various client issues, OMARA complaints and other such things I have been through.

I received this message today in my email inbox:

Today, at community breakfasts and BBQs, flag raisings and citizenship ceremonies, in backyards and on beaches, millions of our citizens will celebrate one of the greatest gifts imaginable – to be an Australian.

While Australia Day formally marks the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet, today we celebrate something richer and deeper. We celebrate the nation and people we have become.

We are the grateful inheritors of two strands of history: a British heritage and an Aboriginal one. We honour both today.

Along with the millions of settlers from around the world who have made their home in Australia since 1788, we have become one people sharing the one land. We are fulfilling the aspiration put forward in the opening of the Australian Constitution: ‘that the people….have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth’.

Twenty three million of us have found unity in our diversity, respect in our differences and have built a modern nation on the idea that anyone can get ahead provided they are prepared to “have a go”.

Today, almost 18,000 men and women will take the Citizenship Pledge and “join our team”. It is a fitting day to celebrate our new citizens as it was on 26 January 1788 when Australia’s first modern migrants arrived.

We have always been an immigrant country. Since 1949, more than 4.5 million people from across the globe have chosen to make Australia their home.

I am proud to say that one of those families was my own.

On 7 September 1960, my father, mother, oldest sister and I left Tilbury for Australia.

My parents had a deep sense that there was no better place to raise a family.

In a co-incidence that reminds me how much I will always owe our country, fifty three years to the day after embarking on that journey with my parents, I was elected Prime Minister of Australia.

Australia has been a place for people to realise their dreams - if not all of them, at least many of them. Australia didn't disappoint my parents when they left Britain and it hasn't disappointed my wife Margie since she travelled ‘across the ditch’ from New Zealand. My hope is that our country will always live up to the faith that its people place in it.

Today we celebrate the history that has made us who we are; the country that we love and the values and institutions that underpin it.

It is a great day to be Australian - Happy Australia Day!

Regards,

Migration Alliance is pleased to have partnered with Australian Construction Training Services.

Australian Construction Training Services (ACTS) is endorsed by Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) as a TRA Approved Registered Training Organisation (RTO), for both the Offshore Skills Assessment Program (OSAP) and the 457 Skills Assessment Program.

Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) is the Australian Goverment Organisation that is responsible for the Skills Assessment of offshore applicants, for the purposes of Migration. TRA are part of the Department of Industry. 

ACTS provides authorised assessment services for Migration in the following areas:

•     Offshore Skills Assessment Programme
•     457 Skills Assessment Programme

As a Registered Training Organsiation, ACTS and its consortia member Engineering Training Australia (ETA) conduct assessments in accordance with the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) for applicants seeking to have their skills and knowledge assessed towards an Australian trade qualification.

ACTS services are customer focused and are designed to bring out the best in their clients.   Migration Alliance recommends that Registered Migration Agents seek to assist suitable clients with their migration to Australia by referring them to ACTS who can guide the visa applicant (client) through the process of the Technical and Practical assessment methods.

National Australia Bank can assist you and your clients with Australia’s Significant Investor Visa (SIV)
 
At National Australia Bank (NAB) we understand that ensuring your client has the right investment advice and access to a range of complying investment categories, as advised by the Minister and the States and Territories, is one of the key issues you face in assisting your clients gain their Significant Investor Visa.

Our dedicated Private Client Managers are here to work with you and your clients along every step of the visa application process. They will ensure that your client has a thorough understanding of the investment options NAB can advise on and provide to them, within the state or territory they are applying for.

NAB Private Wealth

NAB Private Wealth is Australia’s largest private bank[1], offering highly personalised banking and wealth management solutions tailored to the individual needs of your client. In addition to the dedicated Private Client Manager assigned to your client, NAB Private Wealth provides your client with access to a range of specialists, from across the NAB Group of companies, to advise them on wealth creation and protection strategies including asset allocation, portfolio optimisation, tax planning, risk management, trusts and estate planning, even philanthropy.

Our Private Wealth services have been recognised through a suite of awards, having been named:

·         Winner Private Bank of the Year Smart Investor – Blue Ribbon Awards 2013

·         Winner Outstanding Institution Philanthropic Services and Outstanding Analyst by Australian Private Banking and Wealth Awards 2013

·         Winner High Net Worth (US$1 million to US$10 million category) By Euromoney Private Banking & Wealth Management Survey 2013

·         Winner Australia’s Best Private Bank – Australia by Asian Private Banker Awards for Distinction 2012

NAB is one of Australia’s largest banks which, as well as operating NAB Private Wealth, also operates Australia’s largest business bank and agribusiness bank, offering your client over 150 years of accrued experience. NAB is a top 10 ASX listed company with a presence in 10 countries including major banking operations in Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA. The company employs 40,000 people globally who service over 12 million customers. NAB is ranked as the Safest Australian bank and #16 overall World’s Safest Bank[2].

Significant Investor Solutions

In line with our expertise and position in the Australian banking market, NAB Private Wealth is ideally placed to advise your client on a suite of 20 SIV complying products and funds developed by the NAB Group, as well as offering solutions provided externally by third parties. If their investment preference is to invest in an Australian company or agribusiness, we will introduce them to one of our Business Banking Managers from Australia’s largest and leading business bank or Australia’s largest agribusiness bank. We will work together to help manage and grow your client’s investment.

Connect with us

You can connect with us at any time by contacting one of our local SIV experts, who will connect you and your client with our Private Bank in Australia.

Australia

Shannon Kong
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T: +61 477 331 892

Lily Huang
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T: +61 467 818 628

Victoria Xia
E: Victoria Xia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Victoria)
T: +61 467 807 339
 
China and Hong Kong
Sharon Sun
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+86 138 172 70279

Singapore
Orlane Hugh
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T: +65 8339 5600

India
Rajesh Iyer
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T: +91 22 6198 8261

United Kingdom
Rebecca Paine
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T: +44 792 0500 238

For more information, please visit www.nabgroup.com/migrantbanking

[1] Australian Private Banking Council Benchmarking Project 2012 – performance amongst Australia’s five largest banks.

2 Comparison of long-term credit ratings and total assets of the 500 largest banks (Global Finance Magazine 2012)

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