Who can help with your visa application - Home Affairs

Who can help with your visa application

Only certain people can help with a visa application. That help is called immigration assistance.

Immigration assistance is when a person uses knowledge of, or experience in, migration procedure to help with visa applications or other visa matters by:

• preparing, or helping to prepare, a visa application or other document
• advising about a visa application or visa matter
• representing in, or preparing for, proceedings before a court or review authority in relation to a

visa matter.

If you appoint someone to give you immigration assistance, they must be one of:

• a registered migration agent
• a legal practitioner
• an exempt person.

A registered agent's registration can be checked with MARA. Anyone else offering migration advice about a visa application is outside the law.