Australian Immigration Daily News

When you entered the migration advice profession, did you have any idea that your work might require you to explore and understand the obscure details of Australian business law? 

For example, to be able to analyse whether, in circumstances where the co-trustees of a family trust that conducts business activities, could be considered to be the “sole proprietor” of a business? 

The again, it probably didn’t occur to you that in trying to navigate the Migration Act and Regulations, you would be required to find your way through thickets of interpretation as seemingly difficult as trying to answer the question: “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” (The answer to that question, of course, is “As many angels as the Department or the Tribunal say, just so long as the client is found to satisfy the criteria for the grant of the visa!!”. 

Would you like to be able to give your clients an example of why a registered migration agent can be invaluable to the process of preparing a visa application? 

Of why the application process is “not as simple and straightforward as it seems”? 

Of why that old truism that: “the devil is in the details” is actually a truism that is true when it comes to the Australian migration legislation?  

Event hosts Expat Advisors Community, Migration Alliance and Australia Asia Executive Center invite you to celebrate the race the stops the nation at Doltone House Hyde Park Sydney.

Enjoy champagne and canapes on arrival, a delicious 2-course lunch and unlimited beverage package. There will be fashions on the field with best-dressed male and female, cup sweep and big screens in the glamorous Manhattan Room.

With plenty of time for networking with others in the Australia-Asia business community, get together colleagues, clients and connections and enjoy a relaxing afternoon. 

Date:           Tuesday 1st November 2016

Time:           12.30 pm to 4.30 pm

Venue:         Doltone House, Hyde Park, Level 3, 181 Elizabeth Street, Sydney

Cost:            $185 or $1,750 for a table of 10 with company or association logo
                     Payment options via credit card, invoice or direct bank. 

For more information go to the Melbourne Cup Business Party event overview here»

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Quiz time! 

That’s right! Just because everyone is stumbling back to work from the long weekend, there is no excuse for not answering! Not even if you are a loyal follower of the Western Bulldogs or the Cronulla Sharks and are seriously hung over from too much celebrating! (As for myself, I remain “clueless” about both rugby and AFL after nearly 15 years in Australia, but at least I deserve some credit for being (vaguely!!!!) aware that the Bulldogs and Sharks both won their Grand Finals (thanks only to SBS!)). 

And if my poor son has to suffer through the HSC exams in the next few weeks, then the least that could happen is that the migration profession should be subjected to this quiz, right!!  

How can you figure out if the Tribunal has committed a jurisdictional error, and that your client has good prospects of success if you seek judicial review in the Federal Circuit Court? 

Read tea leaves? Consult a Ouija Board, a fortune teller or a crystal ball? Buy an “8” Ball? Seek guidance from Donald Trump’s debate advisers? OK, from Hillary’s advisers? Email Christopher Levingston? 

It ain’t always so easy to know!!!