The report below was prepared for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection by Wayne Sievers. 

This was downloaded from an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald entitled “Terror touches down: visa fraud, migration crime ‘rampant,’ Immigration Department files reveal”.  The full article can be found at http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/terror-touches-down-visa-fraud-migration-crime-rampant-immigration-department-files-reveal-20140806-3d8wj.html

DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT HERE:

Report-on-Immigration-Fraud.pdf

This brings me back to the important issue: the need for an independent immigration commission (IC).  If we had an IC much like the IC in the United Kingdom then I believe that many of these issues would become non-issues.

The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) is an independent, non-departmental public body set up under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

In the UK the Immigration Services Commissioner has various powers including:

• refusing an adviser entry to the regulatory scheme
• deregulating a regulated adviser
• limiting or varying levels of work advisers may undertake
• laying a disciplinary charge against a regulated adviser
• applying for a Restraining Order or an injunction
• prosecuting for illegally providing immigration advice and/or services
• prosecuting for illegally advertising immigration advice and/or services
• entering an adviser's premises
• seizing an adviser's records.

It's high time Australia had an IC.  The DIBP and OMARA are not up to it.