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Unregistered Offshore Agents claim ties with Australian government
News just in from India from a RMA travelling through India at the moment:
"I am currently in India visiting my parents. Today, I saw one Mr. Manish Gupta (details attached) being interviewed by one of the Punjabi TV channels here. Mr. Gupta made claims of being an Australian and New Zealand Immigration lawyer. The channel seems to be solely dedicated to immigration matters. It appears consultants such as Mr. Gupta pay this channel to have them interviewed and present their expertise.
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Mr. Manish Gupta ‘s details do not appear on MARA’s register of agents. And his NZ license is expired. I was not able to verify if he is a lawyer (NZ or Aus)
Mr. Manish Gupta made claims of his ability to successfully source SVP CoEs from University of Canberra and advised how an Australian student visa could be received. He also discussed spouse visas.
Mr. Manish Gupta’s interview was immediately followed by another interview where the gentleman (.jpg attached) also claimed to have worked for the Australian High Commission and had the presenter complement him for his years of service to the immigration industry and why he did not need to be a MARA agent (with 40 years of experience behind him).
References were made to Australian visa regime…BVA, BVB, BVC, MRT etc and how he recently travelled to Australia as part of a delegation to discuss issues affecting Indian students with the Australian government."
Migration Alliance will be making a submission to the government today around S280B of the Migration Act.
For people seeking to make a visa application to Australia, be sure to use a Registered Migration Agent. To find a migration agent please use the 'find an agent' function on the homepage of this website.
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Thursday, 19 June 2014I have been arguing this nexus for a long, well now it is exposed, my argument in the past was overruled in 2007 that I do have any sound basis for such serious allegations, hence this argument could not be accepted by even then Minister "Ms Julian Gallard" office.
This fact was very well known to Indian TV viewers in Punjab where it is an exclusively televised by scrupulous unregistered agents, I call them "Son-in-law of Australian Government".
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These agencies have Evisa access for student visa from Australian Government .. where as a MARA agent who is spending around 5 K every year to renew his registration and do not have.