Australian Immigration Daily News

On 7 January 2020, Liana Allan, Founder of Migration Alliance participated in a round-table consultation which took place in Melbourne, hosted by the Department of Home Affairs.  The round-table discussion was regarding the 2020-21 Migration Program.

Both Home Affairs and Migration Alliance appreciated the discussion generated, plus the views and ideas that other participants you were able to provide.   The discussion was useful for sharing perspectives across the range of stakeholders represented.

Migration Alliance has requested that the discussion paper be made available to our members and we await feedback on that request.  

Migration Newsletter 764 has been released and makes excellent reading:

Migration-Newsletter-764.pdf

Migration Newsletter 763 has been released and makes excellent reading:

Migration_Newsletter_763.pdf

Migration Newsletter 762 has been released and makes excellent reading.

Migration_Newsletter_762.pdf

Two Sydney women, one a 30 year old Australian citizen and the other a 32 year old Chinese national with permanent residency, have been sentenced to conditional good behaviour bonds after pleading guilty to multiple offences against the Migration Act.

Australian Border Force (ABF) officers commenced an investigation into the pair in October 2018 after it was reported they were unlawfully providing immigration advice and assistance to large numbers of mainly Chinese nationals.

Investigations revealed that although neither of the women were registered migration agents they had advertised migration assistance and charged a fee whilst not being registered, and provided immigration assistance to at least three travellers who were found to be in possession of fraudulently obtained identity documents.