Barbara Maher: registration barred by OMARA on 27 Jun 2024

What the Authority decided

On 27 June 2024, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to bar the Former Agent, Ms Barbara Maher (MARN 9358090) from being registered as a migration agent.

The Authority found that the Former Agent breached her obligations under clauses 2.1, 2.1A, 2.23, 5.2, 5.5, 7.2 and 7.4 of the former Code for registered migration agents.

The Authority found that the Former Agent:

• Expected the visa applicant to pay the nomination costs associated with the preparation of a nomination application for her nominated employer. Furthermore, the Former Agent encouraged the nominated employer to deduct these costs from the visa applicant’s pay.
• visa applicant-এর কাছ থেকে nomination application প্রস্তুতির সঙ্গে সম্পর্কিত খরচ আদায় করতে nominated employer-কে পরামর্শ দিয়ে একটি উল্লেখযোগ্য conflict of interest প্রদর্শন করেছেন।
• Encouraged the nominated employer to act in contravention of the law, specifically Regulation 2.87, contrary to the Migration Regulations.
• Did not deal fairly with her client by making disrespectful comments about the visa applicant.
• Failed to provide a written Services Agreement, a Statement of Services and invoices to her client.

The Former Agent’s barring will be in effect for a period of two (2) years from the date of the Authority’s decision.

A copy of the decision with personal information and business names redacted is available below.

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.