This is a dedicated website for the publication of forms and precedents that may be useful to your migration practice as a Registered Migration Agent or a Solicitor.
This is a dedicated website for the publication of forms and precedents that may be useful to your migration practice as a Registered Migration Agent or a Solicitor.
Time-saving Practice Solutions (TIPS) is a series of publications to assist you in your practice.
Migration Precedents Australia (MPA) is a MARA approved CPD provider. You can gain MARA core CPD points for distance learning, in accordance with the MARA CPD Standard Conditions, through this website.
A selection of articles on immigration is also available for your information, FREE of charge. You are encouraged to submit articles on immigration issues for publication, subject to our approval.
Time Saving Practice Solutions on Office Management
Is your office running efficiently even when you are not there?
Our Staff Operating Manual provides useful tools in managing a small legal or migration practice. It contains “scripts” in answering phone enquiries, “how to’s” in managing correspondence, opening and closing client files, creating client status reports. It also provides templates for record keeping of client payments, instructions on frequently used computer functions and other routine administrative work.
Tried and tested over the years, using this Manual will enable you to maintain the quality of your service, even with casual staff. It can minimise your stress, particularly, when the only regular employee you have patiently trained and invested your time and resources in, suddenly leaves you!
This Manual is also a great aid in freeing up your time, allowing you to focus on other important matters such as attending to clients, networking and promoting your migration practice.
Upon payment of the purchase price, you will be entitled to download the Staff Operating Manual 2011 Edition one-off and be authorised to use and revise the Manual to suit the needs of your own practice (although the copyright remains with the author). You can easily customise it to suit your unique business.
To preview before you buy, click here to register your details, password and email address. If you think the Staff Operating Manual will be useful in the efficient management of your practice, login to your account and pay the purchase price of $300.00 plus GST.
Time-Saving Practice Solutions (TIPS) on General Skilled Migration (GSM)
Are you able to give comprehensive advice under the new points test within minutes?
This CPD activity was approved as Item No 20209 per Office of the MARA Notice No. MN40-10b of 2010.
As registered migration agents, we have a social and ethical responsibility to ensure that our advice on the prospects of a client’s success or failure in obtaining suitable skills assessment and on visa approval is based on the latest skills assessment policy guidelines and the most recent changes to the Migration Regulations. A written advice following face to face consultation demonstrates professionalism and is the best practice in file management.
You no longer have to ignore email enquiries from potential clients who ask whether they can work or migrate to Australia. Now you can provide frank, candid and sound advice within minutes and at the same time charge fees for your advice.
Our “Time-Saving Immigration Practice Solutions (TIPS) on General Skilled Migration (GSM)” consists of two parts:
- Precedents on Skills Assessment for most occupations in the SOL and ENSOL
- Precedent forms and letters of advice for applicants under the new points test and applicants under the transitional provisions
Our data gathering form allows you to limit the information received from clients to what you actually need, without going through irrelevant data in long resumes.
You can easily customise our precedent (template) letters of advice to address whether or not your potential client is likely to:
- Obtain a suitable skills assessment
- Meet the criteria for visa grant
Skills Assessment for Occupations in the SOL and ENSOL
You can now minimize going through the voluminous pages of skills assessing authority websites to find the information you need for your advice.
We have summarised the required qualification, work experience and English skills to meet the criteria for suitable skills assessment, of almost 40 skills assessing authorities under their policy guidelines.
Quick Reference Table of Requirements
Our quick reference table of requirements for most occupations listed in the SOL and the ENSOL, shows at a glance:
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Skills assessing authorities with hyperlinks to their website;
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Registration Boards in Australia, if required, with hyperlinks to their website;
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Relevance of the Country Education Profile (CEP) in relation to overseas qualification;
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Work experience (where required);
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Registration with overseas registration boards (where required);
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Theoretical, practical or clinical examinations (where required);
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Minimum English skills (where required); and
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Skills assessment fees.
Hyperlinks
You will also find hyperlinks direct to the relevant webpages of DIAC, various State Migration Plan, ANZSCO, ASRI, accredited courses, qualifications and professional associations, Australian health registration boards, and assessment flowcharts.
Earn CPD Points
Within 60 days from purchase of the TIPS on GSM, you and four others within your practice or the two sole practitioners who purchase together could gain 1 CPD core point with MARA just by passing the assessment, using the forms and precedents of our TIPS on GSM.
Preview
To preview before you buy TIPS on GSM click here to register your details. Otherwise, please click here to logon and pay the purchase price of $450.00 plus GST for TIPS on GSM or $350.00 plus GST for Skills Assessment precedents only.
Upon payment of the corresponding purchase price for either the skills assessment precedents only or TIPS on GSM which includes the skills assessment precedents, you will be entitled to download and use subsequent updates up to 30 June 2012.
Special Price for Sole Practitioners
For a limited time only, two sole practitioners may jointly pay for only one price for one product, on condition that: both sole practitioners register to purchase the product at the same time; one sole practitioner must register as the primary user and the other sole practitioner must register as a secondary user. After payment by the registered primary user for the full price, you will need to contact us so that we can give access to the registered secondary user to the material/s purchased.
Payment by bank cheque or Australian Post money order
If you do not have a Mastercard or Visacard, you can pay by money order or bank cheque made to “Buckingham Chambers Pty Ltd”, and posted to our office address together with your login name, email and registration details. However, if you choose this option, you must allow ten working days before you access the material/s, to allow sufficient time for our website technical support to manually activate your account for this extra service, so that you will not have to pay additional technical service charge.
How to gain 1 CPD core point with MARA
Click on the CPD Assessment link in the website banner.