Australian Immigration Daily News

Michael Jeremy (on the left in the picture) will be presenting two separate, full-day 10-point CPD blitzes in Perth on 13 March and 14 March 2015.   Here is what the super-guru of Australian immigration has to say:

"I really enjoy delivering training workshops as these OFFER a much more interactive and interesting learning environment.

I always learn new things and see things from different perspectives as a result of the broad range of experiences held in the workshop. It also gives PARTICIPANTS a greater ability to get to know each other and find out what their colleagues are interested in, specialise in and how to create networks in an often isolating industry.

The topics we'll be discussing in Perth:

•     The ever-changing General Skilled Migration, 'this is not an application' - Expression Of Interest (EOI). Not to be outdone, the states, territories and regions of Australia also have their own Skilled Occupation Lists, skill and English criteria and systems of invitation to the party. The Immigration Department also has interesting and growing cancellation powers over permanent visas.

•     Ministerial Intervention, which is an interesting, complex and explosive area of immigration in which to practice. Migration professionals must always remember that this is about the 'Minister' NOT the 'Department'.

•     The notorious 457 Visa is, in my opinion, one of the most complicated programs within skilled migration. It really is about Australian employers and their ability to abide by the sponsorship obligations. This is a really interesting area of Immigration law in which to practice.

•     ENS (Employer Nomination Scheme). This is widely misunderstood to be 'permanent sponsorship'. It's nothing of the sort. We'll go through some interesting aspects of the regs and how to best advise clients on pathways and streams.

•     The Health Criteria is my favourite seminar. The Health Crtieria apply to every person who seeks entry to Australia and to remain in Australia, it's the standards of evidence that differ across individuals and how those standards of evidence are best determined. In this seminar we'll look at HIV, Ebola and medical conditions such as Schizophrenia. We'll also discuss how best to manage an application for a health waiver.

I invite all attendants to come armed with questions and issues to raise within the group."

Migration Alliance members have been in contact and have expressed the view that Migration Alliance should defend and protect it's name against ME Alliance Pty Ltd otherwise named Migration and Education Alliance, owned and operated by RMA Praveen Goyal.

If any RMAs, who are also solicitors are familiar with this area of law and would be able to advise us, we would be pleased to hear from you.  We would like to keep the work within the profession and amongst our members where possible.

As ME Alliance Pty Ltd is a small business, Migration Alliance has lodged an application with the Small Business Commissioner for mediation with ME Alliance Pty Ltd to try and request that Mr Goyal refrain from using 'Migration and Education Alliance' as his trading name.

A message has just been received from DIBP regarding ImmiAccount as follows:

"Can you please flag with Migration Alliance members that there will be an ImmiAccount outage from 2 til 9pm this Saturday.

We will put outage comms on the DIBP website but I wanted to advise you as well given the late notice – apologies for this but our IT colleagues were unable to confirm until today.

Migration Alliance has been contacted by a number of concerned Adelaide residents following the release yesterday of our updates on Abel Kalpinand Prasad.  We were then provided details of an RMA who worked with Abel and contacted him for his recollections.  Our contact is an RMA who is based in Adelaide and had the unfortunate experience of having come across Abel Kalpinand Prasad.  

Background

Our contact in Adelaide is a migration agent and reports that in 2011-2012 Abel Prasad (Abel) would advertise for and then have "many Chinese clients turn up to the office" and that Abel appeared to be running a pyramid scheme and that Abel would arrange for agents and referrers to bring people to him.