Australian Immigration Daily News

Are you thinking of applying for a visa for employment, residence or study in another country where the language spoken is different from your own language? Are you confused by the visa requirements and worried about whether you are doing the right thing and whether your application could be rejected because you have made a mistake?

For worry free migration applications the best suggestion is to use a migration agent. These professionals know their own immigration rules inside out and understand what you need to provide to support a visa application. Using a registered and approved migration agent means you can relax and let all the responsibility for presenting your visa application with the agent rather than spend hours trying to do it yourself.

One of the advantages of using a migration agent is that they can provide you with a reasonable idea whether your visa application is likely to be successful. Most immigration authorities these days demand that you pay a fee for a visa application. This is usually not returnable, so if your application is refused for some reason, then you not only have wasted your time, but you also lose your money. A migration agent will prevent these sorts of errors from occurring.

Migration agents will almost always be able to communicate with you in your own language, so there is minimum confusion when you are discussing your visa application and the application process itself. When you try and do this yourself you may be left wondering whether you have got the message right, especially when you try and communicate with an official directly on the phone and it is hard to understand what they are telling you to do.

A migration agent is able to help get your supporting documents translated so that they are acceptable by employers, schools, colleges, universities and immigration authorities. It is quite usual for these bodies to make it compulsory for any documents you need to supply to be translated into the national language if your documents are in another language. A migration agent will liaise with a suitable professional translation services agency so that your documents are translated accurately but they will be certified by the translator, too. This is almost always a prerequisite for acceptance by many authorities.

Apart from document translation services, a migration agent will know exactly what immigration policies are all about and will be able to provide you with advice, especially if you have several options available to you. A migration agent will be able to plan your entire visa application process from the point at which a suitable visa is selected through to making sure that you (and your family) fit the requirements for a successful visa application. The agent will know from experience of any particular hurdles that you might face and how much the application is going to cost.

Filling in the actual visa application form or forms can be a nightmare if you try to do it yourself, especially if your knowledge of the language used in the form is not perfect. Your chosen agent will make sure that you make no mistakes and that everything that the authorities want to see included on the form is completed satisfactorily.

The migration agent will also make sure that every document you need to provide is made available, that it is up to date and is legible, give it to a professional translation services agency for certified translation if that is necessary and then send the package off to the authority responsible for approving your visa.

One of the worst things about visa applications is knowing when an application is going to be approved. You can wait for ages without any communication from the immigration authorities and this can be a very stressful experience. This is when a migration agent can take all the stress out of the application process by liaising with the department responsible and letting you know exactly what is going on and whether there any problems that need to be rectified.

To conclude, if you are confident of applying for a visa for migration by yourself and have done this before and speak the language of the country you are applying for well, then by all means do it by yourself. However, if you have any doubts about your ability to communicate and if the visa application means a lot to you, use a migration agent. You won’t regret it!