Australian Immigration Daily News

Migration Alliance is pleased to advise that the CEO of the Office of the MARA (OMARA), Mr Steve Ingram has accepted an invite from the SIV Conference organisers, Basis Point, to attend the annual SIV annual conference on 3 July 2014 at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

Migration Alliance views the attendance of Mr Ingram as a positive step towards OMARA's engagement with the profession.  The SIV conference is an important event occurring within the Australian migration landscape. 

The SIV conference is set to be a significant Australian immigration event in 2014.  With approximately 400 high-level delegates from a wide cross-section of government, corporate and small to medium enterprise, all of which overlap in the investment space, it is an event not to be missed on the Australian RMA calendar this year.

I received the following response from the DIBP today:

UNCLASSIFIED

From 2006 to 2009, Qi Zhou was the principal, owner and proprietor of Hong Yun International Pty Ltd (‘HYI’). HYI was a business that was advertised and promoted as a professional migration, legal and financial services agency, offering overseas students from China, a range of visa options that would enable them to get other temporary visas or permanent residency to stay in Australia.

Between 2008 and 2009, the Australian Federal Police and the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship undertook a joint investigation. They concluded that a number of people were engaged in a series of ‘migration fraud’ offences operating primarily under HYI.

Activities included acting as Registered Migration Agents and collecting fees from vulnerable clients. There was also a large scale production of false documents, and the submission of these to government agencies.  Then there was the creation of contrived marriages and de facto relationships, all to defaud the DIBP and for Australian immigration purposes.

Migration Alliance has been saddened by the news of the death of Jan Drewery-Clark from South Australia.

Jan is well remembered by Migration Alliance for her fantastic presentation on RSMS after 1 July 2012 at our annual conference in Sydney.  A copy of the presentation Jan gavein 2012 on RSMS is below.

Jan-Drewery-Clark-Presentation-MA-conference-2012.pdf

Watch this great and inspirational story about Jeremy, the Indigenous Australian working at the DIBP:

http://www.immi.gov.au/News/Pages/jeremys-journey.aspx

At the end of the film, it states: