Australian Immigration Daily News

The Migration Amendment (Regulation of Migration Agents) Bill 2017, that was introduced in the House of Representatives on 21 June 2017, includes amended provisions concerning the requirements for registration as a new migration agent.

These amendments are evidently intended to facilitate the recommendations in the Kendall Report that was released on 24 September 2014 concerning educational requirements for migration agents.

The Kendall Report recommended that the previous requirement that “non-lawyer” migration agents entering the profession be required to complete a Graduate Certificate in Migration Law and Practice (a 6-month course) with a new requirement that new applicants for registration be required to complete a Graduate Diploma in Migration Law and Practice (a 12-month course).

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It has finally happened!

On 21 June 2017, the Turnbull Government introduced legislation (the “Migration Amendment (Regulation of Migration Agents Bill) 2017”) into the House of Representatives that, if enacted, would end the dual regulation of lawyers by the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority.

The Kendall Report, which was issued on 24 September 2014, and which detailed the results of a study of the functions of the MARA that was commissioned by then-Assistant Minister Michaelia Cash, had made a recommendation that the system of dual regulation by  the MARA be ended.  However, legislation to implement this change had not been widely circulated until the introduction of the bill last week.

Migration Alliance members received a number of alerts concerning legislative changes in lead up to 1 July.  To assist all of our members during this busy period, below is one stop summary of key changes anticipated to take place this Saturday:

1)      Planned (and unplanned System Outages)

We are mere 5 days away from 1 July and the changes to immigration requirements are becoming clearer.  Here is a summary update in relation to some of the changes announced recently: