Yizhen Zhao: registration cautioned by OMARA on 11 May 2026
A formal warning. The registration continues and the agent may keep working.
The decision stated a period of for a period of three month from 11 May 2026, which ended on 11 Aug 2026. This person may since have been registered again. This page is a record of a past decision and does not tell you their current status — check the Register of Migration Agents for that.
Reported from the OMARA disciplinary decisions register, read on 11 Sep 2026. The register is the authoritative source and it changes: decisions are reviewable, and suspensions and bars expire. Check it before you act on anything here.
What the Authority decided
On 11 May 2026, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to caution Mr Yizhen Zhao (MARN 1577120) for a period of three months following an investigation into a complaint regarding the Agent’s conduct.
The Authority was satisfied that the Agent breached his obligations under clauses 2.9 and 2.23 of the former Code of Conduct for Registered Migration Agents being Schedule 2 to the Migration Agents Regulations 1998, as in force prior to 1 March 2022.
The Authority found that the Agent had:
- Provided the Department with non-genuine Employer Nomination Scheme nomination and visa applications.
- Failed to take instructions from, provide advice to, or enter into service agreements directly with any of the nominating businesses or visa applicants.
- Benefited from this conduct by receiving a fee from another RMA.
The decision summary can be found below.
The Agent's caution was lifted on 11 August 2026.
The decision summary above is reproduced from the Authority's published record of this decision, which also carries the decision document itself. Nothing has been added to it.
What a caution means if this was your agent
A caution is a formal warning under section 303 of the Migration Act 1958. The registration continues. The agent may keep working and may keep acting for you, and many agents who have been cautioned go on practising for years without further incident.
What changes for you is information, not status. Read the decision and see whether the conduct described resembles your own experience — a caution about advertising is a different thing from a caution about client money.
If this was your agent: the first week
- Find out where your application actually is. If you have an ImmiAccount, log in. The clock does not stop because your representation did.
- 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.
- Get your file. Your documents are yours and the Code requires them back — originals first. How to get your file back.
- Work out what was paid and what was done. Ask for the itemised invoices and receipts the Code requires. Routes to recover money work better started early.
- 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.
- 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
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