Immigration Advice and Application Assistance (IAAAS)

The IAAAS provides publicly funded help with:

• Application assistance to disadvantaged non-protection visa applicants in the community.
• Immigration advice to disadvantaged members of the community.

APPLICATION ASSISTANCE:

• Application assistance is provided to eligible applicants to prepare, lodge and present applications for visas.
• It also includes application assistance at the merits review stage when a primary application has been refused.
• Application assistance however does not include assistance with applications through the courts.

Eligibility Criteria for Application:

• People eligible for publicly funded application assistance under IAAAS include other disadvantaged prospective onshore visa applicants in the community in greatest need who are unable to access the services of a registered migration agent.
• The IAAAS is not intended to provide universal assistance to all visa applicants.
• IAAAS service providers are selected, amongst other things, on their capacity to focus assistance on those cases in most need.
• The assistance provided by IAAAS should not be confused with assistance provided by Legal Aid Services.
• All inquiries for Legal Aid Services should be directed to those organisations or to offices of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Australia.

IMMIGRATION ADVICE:

Immigration advice is provided to eligible members of the community who are seeking:

• To prepare and lodge their own visa applications.
• To extend or to vary the conditions of their visas; and Sponsor applicants.

Eligibility Criteria for Advice:

People eligible for public funded immigration advice under IAAAS include those people in the community who are unable to access the services of a registered migration agent due to financial hardship and are considered ‘disadvantaged’ on account of:

• Non-English speaking background
• Different cultural background
• Literacy difficulties
• Living in a remote location
• Domestic violence
• Suffering physical health or psychological disability, including past torture and trauma
• Suffering physical or psychological harm resulting from domestic violence

Our Service is based in Launceston, but is a Statewide service.

Registered Migration Agent:
Josie Wallace
Migration Agents Registration Number MRN: 9301057, MIA: 692
Phone: (03) 6332 2219

Link to Migration Agent Code of Conduct
www.themara.com.au