Australian Immigration Daily News

Ross Ahmadzai, immigration lawyer and General Manager of Visacorp, has been caught up in the Barcelona terrorist attack and has reported in as SAFE.  

Unfortunately the attack occurred right outside the Hotel Catolonia, where Ross is staying.

Some of you will remember that Ross has presented on 457 visas and TSS visas at the two most recent LTA conferences, both at Wesley Centre and Westpac's Arena in Sydney.  (See pic)

The Migration Institute of Australia has, for reasons that are unclear, decided to postpone the EGM to 8 September 2017 at 4pm.

What this means is that there will need to be a new proxy form.  Please hold off on sending in the current proxy forms as these are likely to be invalid because of the sudden change of date.

We will be creating an amended proxy form and sending this to the profession.

How many times have you heard or read about the following scenario, regarding a student visa application:

An applicant is granted a Subclass 573 visa on the basis of being enrolled to take an English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students, and a Masters of Business Management.

However, after arriving in Australia, the applicant claims he is suffering from depression, due to living away from his parents and his home country for the first time, and feeling isolated and lonely. He does not complete the ELICOS course and does not commence the master’s degree course.  His enrolment in the master’s degree course is cancelled.

The announcement of an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) scheduled for Monday 4 September at 4pm, is a unique opportunity for the joint members of the MIA and MA, who are qualified voters (current financial members of the MIA) to confer a proxy vote in accordance with clause 12.4 of the MIA constitution. 

Vote-NO-to-resolution-1-MIA.pdf (proxy form)

12.4 A Voting Member may appoint another person as their proxy to attend and vote for the Voting Member at any general meeting by: a) signing an instrument appointing a proxy in the form prescribed by the Board in the Rules or otherwise in a form complying with the Act; and b) depositing the instrument appointing the proxy, or sending it by such means as the Board prescribes, at or to the Office or other place specified for that purpose in the notice of meeting, no later than the deadline specified in the notice.