Mandeep Kaur: registration barred by OMARA on 5 Aug 2026

What the Authority decided

On 5 August 2026, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to bar the Former Agent, Ms Mandeep Kaur (MARN: 1462851), from being registered as a migration agent for a period of five (5) years following an investigation into a complaint regarding the Former Agent’s conduct.

The Authority found that the Former Agent breached her obligations under sections 13 (1), 13(2), 17, 18(1) and 20 of the Code, which came into effect on 1 March 2022. The Authority also found that the Former Agent breached her obligations under clauses 2.1(a), 2.9 and 2.23 of the former Code, as in force prior to 1 March 2022.

The Authority found that the Former Agent:

• Failed in her duty to comply with the migration law by failing to declare that she provided immigration assistance.
• Failed in her duty to not make false or misleading statements.
• Failed in her duty not to undermine the migration law, for the purpose of obtaining a benefit.
• Failed in her general duty to act professionally, ethically, honestly and with integrity.
• Engaged in conduct that was reasonably likely to damage the reputation of migration agents or the migration advice industry.

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 bar means if this was your agent

A bar is made under section 311A of the Migration Act and applies to a former registered agent — someone whose registration had already ceased, so there was nothing left to cancel. The Authority may bar them from being registered again for up to five years.

If this person was acting for you, they were not a registered migration agent at the time of the decision. Check what has actually been lodged in your name.

If this was your agent: the first week

1. Find out where your application actually is. If you have an ImmiAccount, log in. The clock does not stop because your representation did.
2. 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.
3. Get your file. Your documents are yours and the Code requires them back — originals first. How to get your file back.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

It is a decision about one individual on one date. Only a person can be a registered migration agent — a company cannot — so it says nothing about anyone else at the same practice. Decisions of this kind are reviewable, and bars and suspensions expire. The register is where the current position lives.

Decision information sourced from the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. VisaBid is not affiliated with OMARA or the Department of Home Affairs.