What we handle.
Eight areas of practice, from a first skilled visa to a Tribunal review. Everything below is work done by a registered migration agent.
189 · 190 · 491 · 191
Skilled & State Nomination
Points-tested and nominated skilled visas, from the skills assessment and Expression of Interest through to nomination and lodgement.
- Choosing the right occupation and assessing authority, and reading the current occupation lists rather than last year’s.
- Skills assessment applications and the evidence that supports them.
- SkillSelect Expressions of Interest, points claims and the documents each claim has to be proved by.
- State and territory nomination, including the separate rules each jurisdiction applies.
- Subclass 191 permanent residence for 491 and 494 holders, including the three-year regional residence requirement.
482 · 186 · 494 · 407
Employer Sponsored
Sponsorship, nomination and visa – the three separate applications that employer-sponsored migration actually consists of.
- Standard Business Sponsorship applications and sponsorship obligations.
- Nomination applications, including labour market testing, the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold and annual market salary rate.
- Skills in Demand (subclass 482) applications across the relevant streams.
- Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (subclass 494).
- Training visas (subclass 407) and occupational training arrangements.
820/801 · 309/100 · 300 · 103/143 · 101/102
Partner & Family
Partner, parent, child and other family visas, where the case is won or lost on how the relationship or the family link is evidenced.
- Onshore partner (820/801) and offshore partner (309/100) applications.
- Prospective marriage (subclass 300).
- Building the four relationship pillars – financial, household, social and commitment – into evidence a delegate can follow.
- Statutory declarations and Form 888 sponsor and witness statements.
- Parent and child visas, remaining relative and carer applications.
- Family violence provisions where a relationship has ended.
500 · 590 · 485
Student & Graduate
Student and graduate visas, course and provider changes, and the Genuine Student requirement that now decides most of them.
- Student visa (subclass 500) applications and the Genuine Student criterion.
- Financial capacity and English language evidence under the current legislative instruments.
- Confirmations of Enrolment, course changes, provider transfers and section 20 breach responses.
- Temporary Graduate (subclass 485) applications, including the Post-Higher Education Work and Post-Vocational Education Work streams.
- Student Guardian visas (subclass 590).
600 · condition 8503
Visitor & Temporary
Visitor visas, extensions, and applications to lift a No Further Stay condition where circumstances have genuinely changed.
- Visitor visas (subclass 600) across the Tourist and Sponsored Family streams.
- Further visitor applications and onshore extensions.
- Requests to waive a No Further Stay condition (8503, 8534, 8535) under regulation 2.05(4).
- Advice on visa conditions, work and study limitations, and staying lawful.
Conferral · Descent · Evidence
Citizenship
Citizenship by conferral and by descent, and evidence of citizenship.
- Citizenship by conferral, including the residence requirement and the periods that do and do not count.
- Citizenship by descent for children born overseas.
- Evidence of Australian citizenship.
- Identity and character documentation.
BVA · BVB · BVC · BVE
Bridging & Status Resolution
Staying lawful. Bridging visas, work rights, and what to do when a visa has already ceased.
- Bridging visas A, B, C and E, and working out which bridge a person is actually on and when it ceases.
- Bridging visa B for travel while an application is pending.
- Applications for permission to work, including removal of condition 8101 on compelling need to work grounds.
- Unlawful non-citizens and status resolution.
- The section 48 bar and Schedule 3 criteria, and the limited routes through them.
ART · s.56/s.57 · s.351/s.417
Refusals & ART Review
Refusals and cancellations – merits review at the Administrative Review Tribunal, and Ministerial Intervention.
- Merits review at the Administrative Review Tribunal, including the submission and the schedule of evidence.
- Responding to natural justice invitations under sections 56 and 57 before a decision is made.
- Public Interest Criterion 4020 and other integrity refusals.
- Requests for Ministerial Intervention under sections 351 and 417.
- Visa cancellation and revocation.
- If judicial review in the courts becomes the only remaining option, we will tell you so and refer you to a lawyer – court proceedings are legal practice, and a registered migration agent is not a lawyer.
No Worries Migration is a registered migration agency, not a law firm. We give immigration assistance – preparing and lodging visa applications, advising you about them, and representing you at the Administrative Review Tribunal. We do not provide immigration legal advice and we do not act for anyone in a court. If you need to apply to an Australian court for judicial review of a migration decision, you should contact an immigration lawyer. We can give you general information about how the process works and point you to the relevant court’s own website, but that is general information and it is not legal advice about your circumstances.
A note on what nobody can promise. Applications are decided by the Department of Home Affairs, the Administrative Review Tribunal and the courts – not by your agent. Anyone who tells you they can guarantee a grant, or that they have a special relationship with a decision maker, is telling you something the Code of Conduct expressly prohibits. What we can do is tell you honestly where you stand and prepare the strongest case the facts support.
Tell us where you are up to.
Whether you are at the very start, waiting on a decision, or holding a refusal letter, the first useful step is the same – a conversation about your actual situation.
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