A fast visa application? An easy visa application? Can Down Under Visa get us a lightning-fast visa application to Australia for a Filipina lady? And if not, why not?

Because you engaged a professional Registered Migration Agent to manage a visa application for you like a professional. And you did that to give yourself the best possible chance. This is why you chose a professional who is educated, experienced and qualified. This is why you didn’t choose someone who also sells bus tickets!

Why a Registered Migration Agent?

I’ve done lots and lots of BLOG articles about Registered Migration Agents, and what qualifications, standards and practices are required to gain and to maintain registration as an RMA with MARA (Migration Agents Registration Authority), so I won’t repeat myself here. Being a Migration Agent is a professional role, because Australian visa applications are all about the Law. We are a migration law consultancy practice, and not a One-Stop-Visa-Shop.

The end-result of getting a professional to manage your visa application? Results! The bottom line is you want the visa application to turn into a visa grant! And that’s why you use a professional to get the best possible results. And at Down Under Visa we don’t see too many visa refusals. Not from applications managed by ourselves, that’s for sure.

I had somebody the other day wanting to send his Filipina girlfriend into our office with a pile of messages, photos, etc, and to complete the application while she was there. I said sorry, but we don’t work like that! Honestly, if we did? We would have a much easier life. Maybe just 1 hour of work, and the application is done. And hang the consequences. We don’t work like that…..and we WON’T work like that!

Why not? I’ll tell you. We do things in a particular order, after the initial signing-up procedures.

The following is a simplified version of what we do:

1. We assess the applicant (and sponsor with a partner visa application) via our e-Assess Questionnaire
2. We provide you with a personalised To-Do List of documents and relationship evidence, based on the Questionnaire results
3. We guide you (sponsor AND applicant) with the “requirements” to make sure you supply us with sufficient quantity of documents and with the right documents in the first place
4. We check those documents thoroughly
5. We prepare an application based on the information in the questionnaire
6. We lodge the application and manage it through to the visa grant

If we avoid any of these steps, we risk the outcome of the application! A visa application is based on the documents and evidence supplied, as well as the personal information which goes into the application form. Get these wrong, and the application is going to be substandard or worse! If the information or documentation is wrong, then the application could be deemed as fraudulent! So this is what a speedy application prepared without due care can get you, and this is why we don’t do rush jobs.

Do we have to visit the Down Under Visa office?

No, not at all. You’re welcome to do so if you wish. And we have applicants who want to do this just to see that we do in fact exist, and that we don’t have a tarpaulin sign strung up outside a temporary office somewhere. And if this is important to you, then please do. And if you want to check that our Registration exists, go to www.mara.gov.au and you will see that it is. We’re registered under by name Jeff Harvie, and with my Migration Agents Registration Number which is 0959797.

But to come in thinking we can slap together a speedy application while-you-wait? Sorry. Quality comes before speed every single time, and always will.