Australian Immigration Daily News

Do you ever feel when you are dealing with the Department that you and your client are trapped in a “Catch-22” situation? 

That whatever path you take will somehow be said to be “wrong”?  That you’re presented with a range of 2 choices, and that both of them are adverse to your client, in different ways? That no matter what,

“the Department always wins, and your client loses”? That without having any desire to do so, you have just stepped through the looking glass, and you have joined “Alice in Wonderland”? 

Dear Migration Alliance Members,

In line with our recently announced new strategic partnership with Citibank, it is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to our exclusive partnership information event.

As one of the world's largest Wealth Management providers in over 110 countries, Citibank's partnership has been made to the benefit of all Migration Alliance members who can confidently refer Premium Banking clients to Citi to set up banking, investments and lending services. As a Migration Alliance member, you would be eligible for market leading referral rates.

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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Should a person be prohibited from coming to Australia on a speaking tour because of bigoted, hate-filled statements that he has made in the past? 

Is the Department doing its job when it comes to assessing applicants for visitor visas against the character test? 

These issues are presented by an article that appeared late last week in the Sydney Morning Herald, which appeared under the headline: “Pakistani scholar ordered home from Australian tour after anti-Semitic video emerges”.  

Trying to navigate your way through the migration legislation can seem at times like finding your way through a maze! 

And this can be true even for experienced migration agents and migration lawyers. 

So it is no wonder that visa applicants who are trying to work their way through the process on their own can get tripped up by the complexities of the process, and, as a consequence, find that their visa entitlement to remain in Australia can be placed in jeopardy.