Dakshkumar Dipakkumar Patel: registration cancelled by OMARA on 20 Oct 2025

What the Authority decided

On 20 October 2025, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to cancel the registration of Registered Migration Agent (RMA), Mr Dakshkumar Dipakkumar Patel (MARN 2418384).

The Agent must not be registered for a period of five years from the date of the decision.

The Authority is satisfied that:

• The RMA’s application for migration agent registration was known by him to be false or misleading.
• RMA ਇਮਾਨਦਾਰੀ ਵਾਲਾ ਵਿਅਕਤੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ, ਜਾਂ ਹੋਰ ਕਿਸੇ ਤਰੀਕੇ ਨਾਲ immigration assistance ਦੇਣ ਲਈ fit and proper person ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ।
• The RMA breached his obligations under section 15 of the Migration (Migration Agents Code of Conduct) Regulations 2021 (the Code).

The Authority found that the RMA:

• Provided immigration assistance while not registered as a migration agent and lodged applications under another RMA’s MARN.
• Knowingly made a false declaration in his migration agent registration application to become an RMA.
• Engaged in conduct in breach of his obligations under the Code.
• Is not a person of integrity or otherwise a fit and proper person to provide immigration assistance as per paragraph 303(1)(f) of the Act.

On 23 October 2025 the Agent lodged an application for review of the Authority's decision with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

ਉੱਪਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਫੈਸਲੇ ਦਾ ਸਾਰ ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਦੁਬਾਰਾ ਪ੍ਰਸਤੁਤ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ Authority's published record 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

The registration is removed. The agent's name comes off the Register of Migration Agents and they may not give immigration assistance. A cancellation is usually accompanied by a period during which the person may not be registered again.

ਇਸ ਵੇਲੇ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਮਾਮਲੇ 'ਤੇ ਕੋਈ ਵੀ ਕੰਮ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰ ਰਿਹਾ। Treat this as urgent, and start with who the Department is writing to.

If this was your agent: the first week

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. Check who the Department is writing to. 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. Get your file. Your documents are yours and the Code requires them back — originals first. ਆਪਣੀ file ਵਾਪਸ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਲੈਣੀ ਹੈ.
4. Work out what was paid and what was done. ਵਿਸਥਾਰਵਾਰ ਇਨਵੌਇਸ ਅਤੇ ਰਸੀਦਾਂ ਮੰਗੋ ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ Code ਮੰਗ ਕਰਦੀ ਹੈ। Routes to recover money work better started early.
5. Complain, if there is something to complain about. A published decision does not close your own file. Where to complain, and what OMARA can and cannot do.
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 ਉਹ ਥਾਂ ਹੈ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਮੌਜੂਦਾ ਸਥਿਤੀ ਦਰਜ ਹੈ।

Decision information sourced from the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. VisaBid is not affiliated with OMARA or the Department of Home Affairs.