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Creating a World Class Migration Advice Industry - Submissions Published

Migration Alliance has received the following email from the Department:

Please be advised your submission to the ‘Creating a world class migration advice industry’ Discussion Paper has now been published at the following link: 

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/reports-and-publications/submissions-and-discussion-papers/migration-advice-industry

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    *Eyeroll* Friday, 04 September 2020

    Very funny to note that the first listed public submission is from an UNREGISTERED, OFFSHORE person. The reason we don't have a world class migration profession is because the government accepts and subsequently even publishes these submissions from people who aren't even qualified to call themselves agents and entertains their existence by accepting their applications and submissions on a Departmental level as well.

    I witnessed this same person in a group for visa applicants *threaten* an RMA ("watch out because I have friends in high places" and rattling off a list of people and their positions in government, that I doubt they even have connections with), all because it was revealed they were unregistered in front of a client, when not 10mins earlier in the same thread, they were bragging about being unregistered and making defamatory comments about the OMARA. Now in their submission they want RPL!

    Their whole submission is bipolar. They say how they believe real RMAs are so inept, then why do they want RPL? Why do they want *our* quals to fall in their lap, if our quals mean nothing?

    If RMAs have inferior skills as they claim, why are real RMAs the ones with the Australian postgraduate university degrees? When offshore agents are plenty capable of completing said postgraduate studies online, the only barrier of entry to the profession being an undergraduate degree, postgraduate degree and then an exam (plus not being a criminal among other eligibility requirements), if this person was so capable beyond REAL Registered Migration Agent's means, then why not sit the course and the exam? Prove it buddy or walk.

    I love it too how they said "100% success where the couple stayed together" without even first declaring their work focus lies in the partner visa portfolio. Completely leaving out the pretext. If they can't even introduce their own business properly in a submission to government, why do they deserve RPL? Why are they allowed to represent clients at all?

    Also, if they actually read the Code of Conduct, attended any CPD or had any tangible connections to the regulated migration advice profession, they would know how unprofessional it is to claim 100% success in marketing when visa decisions are made by the Dept of Home Affairs. Past success is not an indication of future success and I would never say the same to my clients without a disclaimer as such. An RMA's only influence on an application is making sure it meets the legislative requirements.

    Offshore cowboys are flying blind while not even having access to or an understanding of, the legislation and they want to jump in and pretend they know something.

    People talk smack about *agents* because we have to contend with part of our occupation title being shared aka "brandied around" by Education Agents and offshore "agents" who have no legislative knowledge. It's as though someone rolled up to court representing themselves as a barrister, when their qualifications were that of a barista and then when everything turned sour, the real barristers had to take the reputation hits for the baristas poor legislative understanding. It's like a comedy of errors...

    Knowing that the government entertains people like this by giving them a platform and accepting them as visa applicants' representatives is why the Australian Migration Advice "Industry" is embarrassing.

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    Felipe Friday, 04 September 2020

    I am surprised by how many of the submissions do not quote any MARN.

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