Australian Immigration Daily News

Registered Migration Agents are advised to be very careful about using a new "e-Signature" concept offered by KONDESK, promoted by SearchMyANZSCO.com.au.  SearchMyANZSCO is owned by Konze Enteprises and as far as we can determine, they are not owned or operated by RMAs.  Therefore they do not need to comply with the industry's Code of Conduct.

The poorly worded English on an email received today, promoting the e-signature service states as follows:

"E-SIGNATURE On Compliance Related Document", and

We have received the following email:

We regret to advise that RDA NORTHERN INLAND is no longer a Regional Certifying Body for the 491 SKILLED WORK REGIONAL (PROVISIONAL) VISA.

For all enquiries in relation to the NSW Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) subclass 491 visa please contact:

Immigration Minister, David Coleman MP has written a letter to the President of the Senate stating the following:

In accordance with Order for production of Documents- Financial Reports (356) moved by Senator Keneally and passed by the Senate on 5 December 2019, I advise that the documents ordered for production are available at; https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visa-statistics/visit https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visastatistics/l ive/m ig ration-program (NB this link doesn't work)

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/visa-statistics/work

Migration Newsletter 755 has been released and makes excellent reading:

Migration_Newsletter_755.pdf

It has been brought to our attention within a private Facebook group (Capstone Exam Study Group), that decision records from the Office of the MARA are starting to require sanctioned migration agents to pass the Capstone.  The earliest decision record which contained this requirement is reported to be from 2018.  The decision record contains the following sentence:

"Agent has passed the Capstone assessment offered by The College of Law (Limited) to assess the Agent’s ability to meet the Occupational Competency Standards for Registered Migration Agents"

Thank you, Ira Rodriguez for bringing this to the attention of the migration agent profession.