Ord Minnett's SIV complying portfolios with their performance to the end of the financial year can be found here:

NSW

Ord-Performance-NSW-1-year-to-30-June-2014.pdf 

Chris Cao has recently joined the Bupa Migration team in WA.

Chris has a strong background working with the Chinese/Asian community and will look to leverage from his previous experience to provide great service to the migration agent network in WA.

He is keen to provide health insurance advice on a broad range of visa categories including, 457, 485 and 188.

Migration Alliance has become aware that RMA Anthony Ross' identity has been stolen and has been used by a person by the name of Vipul Pandit. 

The attached documentation shows the length and depth of the scam by Mr Pandit who has conned one client, Gaurav Patel (permissions granted).

Anthony Ross has, since discovering the rort, reported this to the NSW police, DIBP and Office of the MARA.   Interestingly whilst trying to report the fraud on the OMARA website over the weekend, the OMARA website was not working and unable to take the report despite repeated attempts to do so.

This story comes vourtesy of Tanaya DAS and Karl Konrad (RMA).

Migration Alliance has previously run stories about Singapore Oil and Eddy Kang on this website:

The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that that blacklists of immigration lawyers and agents compiled by the Department of Immigration are still being used, despite government promises they had been removed.

“Documents dated late May show the lists are still being used to rate applicants for partner visas according to which lawyer or agent they have acting on their behalf. The document shows the lists remain part of a "risk tiering tool" that adds three points to an application and may affect the outcome. (The more points, the higher risk rating the application receives.)” reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

However, DIBP has again denied the lists are still in use. A DIBP Spokesperson said, “Consistent with previous statements, the agents-of-concern lists were removed from use last year as the information was out of date.”

The department had previously said the lists were created in 2010 and were supposed to have been destroyed. The discovery of the blacklists prompted a departmental audit.

The discovery of the lists also prompted calls for the Commonwealth Ombudsman to investigate.