Dung Vo: registration cancelled by OMARA on 28 Jul 2020

What the Authority decided

On 29 July 2020 the Authority decided to cancel the registration of Registered Migration Agent Mr Dung Quoc VO (MARN 1461767). The Authority received notice of publicly available information that the Agent’s conduct as a registered legal practitioner had been the subject of disciplinary action taken by The Council of the Law Society of New South Wales (the Council). The Council made findings that the Agent was unable to fulfil the requirements of an Australian legal practitioner to remain admitted to the legal profession. His legal Practicing Certificate was cancelled and the Agent was barred from applying for a new Certificate for a period of 5 years.

Whilst the conduct of concern occurred in the course of his professional dealings as a legal practitioner, the professions of solicitor and migration agent are nevertheless both positions of significant trust, and in this respect the integrity expected of a solicitor is akin to that expected of a registered migration agent. The issues were put to the Agent in a statutory notice but no response from the Agent was received.

As such, the Authority is satisfied that the Agent is not a person of integrity and is not fit and proper to be a registered migration agent.

A redacted 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 cancellation means if this was your agent

নিবন্ধনটি সরিয়ে দেওয়া হয়। এজেন্টের নাম Register of Migration Agents থেকে বাদ যায় এবং তারা immigration assistance দিতে পারেন না। সাধারণত বাতিলের সঙ্গে এমন একটি সময়কাল থাকে, যার মধ্যে ব্যক্তি আবার নিবন্ধিত হতে পারেন না।

Nobody is acting on your matter right now. Treat this as urgent, and start with who the Department is writing to.

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.