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The Department of Home Affairs systems can now differentiate between registered migration agents and legal practitioners.
Australian legal practitioners will now have their own unique identifier number. This number has been emailed to legal practitioners this morning.
Please see updated Form 956 'Appointment of a registered migration agent, legal practitioner or exempt person' attached and is now published:
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/form-listing/forms/956.pdf
https://www.abf.gov.au/form-listing/forms/956.pdf
Please also see updated FAQs.
Form-956-November-2021.pdf and
FAQs---Legal-Practitioners---Department-of-Home-Affairs-Nov-21.docx.pdf