Australian Immigration Daily News

MIGRATION ALLIANCE SUPPORTS "HONEST VOICE" JOHN HOURIGAN FOR NSW/ACT PRESIDENT OF THE MIA

The following is the statement provided to Migration Alliance for release, by nominee John Hourigan:

A Data Matching Programme between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is now gazetted DIBP share data with ATO.pdf.

Information that will be provided to the ATO by the Department of Immigration will be:

• names
• addresses
• details of visa holders, 
• sponsors
• migration agents

Data will come from the financial years ending  2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

For all joint MA-MIA members please find the following Notice to MIA Branch Candidates 2015 from the AEC.  Please also find the names of nominees list below.

MIGRATION ALLIANCE SUPPORTS "TOP PERFORMER" MARK GLAZBROOK FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PRESIDENT OF THE MIA

The following is the statement provided to Migration Alliance for release, by nominee Mark Glazbrook:

 …..”the purpose of PIC 4020 (is) to render visa applicants ultimately responsible for the veracity of the information and documents supplied in support of the application….the Applicant is not absolved from responsibility because he left everything up to his agent”.

How often have we heard this type of pronouncement from the courts?

And how often have we seen fact patterns where visa applicants have “left everything” up to their agents, only to discover to their misfortune that, without the applicant’s knowledge, the agent has submitted  either a bogus document or information that is false or misleading in a material particular, causing the application to “run afoul” of PIC 4020?