Sanjeev Insan: registration suspended by OMARA on 29 Apr 2026

What the Authority decided

On 29 April 2026 the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to suspend the Agents’ registration as a migration agent under subparagraph 303(1)(b) of the Act. The Agents’ registration has been suspended for a period of six months, and until he has met specified conditions.

The Authority was satisfied that the Agent breached his obligations under section 13(1), 13(2), 18(1)(a), 25(3), 25(4), 33(a)(i), 33(a)(iii) and 57 of the Code of Conduct.

The Authority found that the Agent:

• Failed to act professionally, ethically and with integrity and in doing so damaged the reputation of the migration advice industry.
• Allowed another person to use his MARN in a way that suggested that immigration assistance given by another person was given by him.
• Acted in a way that defeated the purpose of migration law by aiding in the provision of immigration assistance by an unlawful provider.
• Failed to notify the Authority within 14 days of him becoming aware that his MARN was being used by another person.
• Failed to act in the legitimate interests of his clients and in accordance with the relevant service agreement.
• Failed to notify his clients and the Department that he had ceased his representation.

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 suspension means if this was your agent

The registration is suspended for a set period. During it the agent may not lawfully give immigration assistance — not to you, not to anyone. Section 280 of the Migration Act makes paid immigration assistance by an unregistered person a criminal offence, and a suspended agent is unregistered for the duration.

This is the outcome that most often catches people mid-matter, because the agent is still there and the suspension has an end date. If your matter can wait, it may be able to wait. If you have a response deadline from the Department inside the suspension period, it cannot.

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.