THE NEGATIVES OF CATEGORY B ACTIVITIES

NEGATIVE NUMBER ONE: CATEGORY B TAKES LONGER TO COMPLETE

The thing about CPD points is this:  Category B points require agents to spend more time to achieve 1 CPD point.   Instead of spending 1 hour to achieve 1 CPD point as is the case with Category A activities, Category B points require an agent to spend 1.5 hours to get one CPD point.  That means if an agent is going to do 5 Category B points, then they are going to spend 7.5 hours to achieve 5 CPD points.   Not very attractive.  In comparison if an agent does 5 Category A points then it would only take them 5 hours to get 5 CPD points.

As far back as May 2014 we covered a story on the best 'professional library' service for Migration Agents.

We are prompted to give our opinion on which professional library service we still think is best and most reliable for RMAs in 2020.   An email came in yesterday from a RMA, which has caused us to write another article on LexisNexis v LegendCOM professional library for RMAs. 

The winner for the most reliable service is still the DIBP's own government product, in our opinion is still LegendCOM.   It's also less expensive and more functional.  They also provide free training from time to time and a free help desk.  LegendCOM is produced on a cost-recovery basis only.

The Migration Agent Activity Report has been published on the OMARA website:

https://www.mara.gov.au/media/682329/MAAR_Jul_Dec_2019_Web.pdf

Migration Alliance has received correspondence from the AAT's Deputy President, Migration & Refugee Division Head, regarding the new COVID-19 Special Measures Practice Direction.

For more information: https://www.aat.gov.au/landing-pages/practice-directions-guides-and-guidelines/covid-19-special-measures-practice-direction-migra

Various migration agents and organisations across the Australian Migration Advice profession have received a suspicious email today titled Legal Migration services sent you "PO-09514.pdf" from the email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The best way to stop this all together is for as many agents to report this to drop box as possible.   

You can do this by clicking on the link here in the email sent to you: