Australian Immigration Daily News

From 2006 to 2009, Qi Zhou was the principal, owner and proprietor of Hong Yun International Pty Ltd (‘HYI’). HYI was a business that was advertised and promoted as a professional migration, legal and financial services agency, offering overseas students from China, a range of visa options that would enable them to get other temporary visas or permanent residency to stay in Australia.

Between 2008 and 2009, the Australian Federal Police and the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship undertook a joint investigation. They concluded that a number of people were engaged in a series of ‘migration fraud’ offences operating primarily under HYI.

Activities included acting as Registered Migration Agents and collecting fees from vulnerable clients. There was also a large scale production of false documents, and the submission of these to government agencies.  Then there was the creation of contrived marriages and de facto relationships, all to defaud the DIBP and for Australian immigration purposes.

Migration Alliance has been saddened by the news of the death of Jan Drewery-Clark from South Australia.

Jan is well remembered by Migration Alliance for her fantastic presentation on RSMS after 1 July 2012 at our annual conference in Sydney.  A copy of the presentation Jan gavein 2012 on RSMS is below.

Jan-Drewery-Clark-Presentation-MA-conference-2012.pdf

Watch this great and inspirational story about Jeremy, the Indigenous Australian working at the DIBP:

http://www.immi.gov.au/News/Pages/jeremys-journey.aspx

At the end of the film, it states:

Summary of changes

For more information please see DIBP's website: http://www.immi.gov.au/News/Pages/changes-csol-sol.aspx

The following changes will apply to applications made for the above visas on or after 1 July 2014.  

Occupations added to the SOL

The following occupations will be added to the SOL:

Registered Migration Agents (RMAs) have been having problems logging into my ImmiAccount using Firefox 30.0. 

The browser keeps crashing when RMAs bring up the login screen.   RMAs were able to log into it last week.  Agents report to Migration Alliance that they have tried IE but the system has now locked their account out.  

The DIBP now reports on the problems with Firefox 30.0