Parminder Kaur: registration suspended by OMARA on 29 Apr 2026

What the Authority decided

On 29 April 2026, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to suspend the registration of Ms Parminder Kaur, (MARN 2117328) for a period of two years and until certain conditions are met following an investigation into the Agent’s conduct.

ਅਥਾਰਟੀ ਇਹ ਗੱਲ ਨਾਲ ਸੰਤੁਸ਼ਟ ਸੀ ਕਿ ਏਜੰਟ ਨੇ Registered Migration Agents ਲਈ ਪੁਰਾਣੇ Code of Conduct (the former Code) ਦੀਆਂ clauses 2.1, 2.1A(d), 2.8, 2.9, 2.18, 2.23, 5.2(c), 6.1, 7.4, 8.1 ਅਤੇ 8.2 ਅਤੇ Migration (Migration Agents Code of Conduct Code) Regulations 2021 (the Code) ਦੀਆਂ sections 13, 24, 33, 39, ਅਤੇ 49 ਅਧੀਨ ਆਪਣੀਆਂ ਜ਼ਿੰਮੇਵਾਰੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਉਲੰਘਣਾ ਕੀਤੀ।

Authority ਨੇ ਪਾਇਆ ਕਿ Agent:

• failed to act in a timely manner in line with statutory deadlines
• failed in her duty to keep her client fully informed in writing about the progress of their application
• failed to issue receipts for payments made by clients
• failed to maintain proper client records
• failed to act professionally, ethically and honestly with integrity
• failed to inform her clients of conflicts of interest and commission payments received by way of referrals to the education provider where her spouse is director
• failed in her duties relating to the proper supervision of the work and services performed by persons other than RMAs
• failed to take all reasonable steps to maintain the reputation and integrity of the migration advice profession.

The Authority was also satisfied that the Agent was not a person of integrity, or otherwise not a fit and proper person to give immigration assistance.

A decision summary can be found below.

On 6 May 2026 the Agent lodged an application for review of suspension decision in the Administrative Review 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.

ਜੇ ਇਹ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਏਜੰਟ ਸੀ ਤਾਂ suspension ਦਾ ਕੀ ਮਤਲਬ ਹੈ

ਰਜਿਸਟ੍ਰੇਸ਼ਨ ਇੱਕ ਨਿਰਧਾਰਤ ਮਿਆਦ ਲਈ ਨਿਲੰਬਿਤ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਏਜੰਟ may not lawfully give immigration assistance — ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਨਹੀਂ, ਕਿਸੇ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਨਹੀਂ। Section 280 of the Migration Act makes paid immigration assistance by an unregistered person a criminal offence, and a suspended agent is unregistered for the duration.

This is the outcome that most often catches people mid-matter, because the agent is still there and the suspension has an end date. If your matter can wait, it may be able to wait. If you have a response deadline from the Department inside the suspension period, it cannot.

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.