Karl Young: registration barred by OMARA on 27 Aug 2020

What the Authority decided

On 27 August 2020 the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to bar the former migration agent Mr Karl YOUNG (MARN 1171642) from being registered for a period of five years. This follows the Authority’s investigation into three complaints in relation to the Former Agent’s conduct while registered.

The Authority found that the Former Agent lodged two Permanent Employer Sponsored Entry nomination applications without the knowledge or authority of the sponsoring businesses for positions that did not exist and were not genuinely available to the nominees. In order to facilitate these nomination applications, the Former Agent engaged in fraudulent conduct by creating non-genuine documents and providing the Department with false and misleading information. The Authority also found that the Former Agent had instructed his client to provide a statement to the Department that he knew was not accurate, withdrew his client’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal review application without her knowledge or permission, and failed to honour his promise to provide her with a refund. The Former Agent failed to comply with a statutory notice requiring him to provide the Authority with his business financial records for inspection. He also failed to show any remorse, or to accept responsibility for his conduct.

The Authority was satisfied that the Former Agent’s conduct, while registered, breached clauses 2.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9 and 2.23 of the Code of Conduct for registered migration agents. An abridged version of the Authority’s decision can be accessed below. Personal details have been removed in the interests of protecting the privacy of the persons involved.

উপরের সিদ্ধান্তের সারাংশটি পুনরুত্পাদিত হয়েছে Authority-এর প্রকাশিত রেকর্ড of this decision, which also carries the decision document itself. Nothing has been added to it.

What a bar means if this was your agent

A bar is made under section 311A of the Migration Act and applies to a সাবেক registered agent — এমন একজন যার নিবন্ধন আগেই শেষ হয়ে গিয়েছিল, তাই বাতিল করার মতো আর কিছুই বাকি ছিল না। Authority তাদের সর্বোচ্চ পাঁচ বছর পর্যন্ত আবার নিবন্ধিত হতে বাধা দিতে পারে।

If this person was acting for you, they were not a registered migration agent at the time of the decision. আপনার নামে আসলে কী জমা দেওয়া হয়েছে তা যাচাই করুন।

এটি যদি আপনার এজেন্ট হয়ে থাকে: প্রথম সপ্তাহ

1. Find out where your application actually is. If you have an ImmiAccount, log in. The clock does not stop because your representation did.
2. Department কাকে লিখছে তা যাচাই করুন। A Form 956 makes an agent the authorised recipient, and correspondence sent to them is taken to have been given to you. A deadline sent to an inbox nobody reads is still a deadline.
3. আপনার ফাইল সংগ্রহ করুন। আপনার নথি আপনারই এবং Code অনুযায়ী সেগুলো ফেরত দিতে হবে — originalগুলো আগে। How to get your file back.
4. কী পরিশোধ করা হয়েছে এবং কী করা হয়েছে তা বের করুন। Code অনুযায়ী যে itemised invoice এবং receipt দরকার, সেগুলো চাইুন। টাকা ফেরত পাওয়ার পথগুলো work better started early.
5. অভিযোগ করার মতো কিছু থাকলে, অভিযোগ করুন। A published decision does not close your own file. কোথায় অভিযোগ করবেন, এবং OMARA কী করতে পারে এবং কী করতে পারে না.
6. Only then, find someone else. A new agent needs the file and the dates. The first five steps are what make that first conversation useful instead of exploratory.

What this decision does not mean

It is a decision about one individual on one date. Only a person can be a registered migration agent — a company cannot — so it says nothing about anyone else at the same practice. Decisions of this kind are reviewable, and bars and suspensions expire. The register এখানেই বর্তমান অবস্থানটি থাকে।

Decision information sourced from the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority এবং একটি-এর অধীনে ব্যবহৃত Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. VisaBid is not affiliated with OMARA or the Department of Home Affairs.