Yong Ho Kwon: registration cancelled by OMARA on 26 Aug 2019
Registration removed. The agent may not give immigration assistance, usually with a period before they may re-apply.
It was made about 7 years ago and did not state a fixed period in its published summary. It does not tell you this person's current registration 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 26 August 2019, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to cancel the registration of Mr Yong Ho Kwon (MARN 1574567) for a period of five (5) years following an investigation into a complaint received in relation to the Agent's conduct. The Authority was satisfied that the Agent had breached clauses 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, 2.9A, 2.14, 2.15, 2.23, 5.2, 5.5, 6.1, 6.1A, 7.1A, 7.2 and 7.4 of the Code of Conduct for registered migration agents, and was not a person of integrity or not a fit and proper person to give immigration assistance.
The Authority found that the Agent had facilitated, or intended to facilitate, unlawful payments to prospective employers in return for sponsorship, in contravention of the law, and required visa applicant clients to pay costs that were associated with the sponsors’ nomination application. The Agent created a fraudulent Commonwealth document to provide to his client, forged clients' signatures on departmental forms and instructed his employee to forge signatures and submit documents to the Department, exposing both himself and his employee to criminal prosecution. Further, the Authority was satisfied that the Agent had withdrawn applications without permission from his clients, had received client money through a third party bank account to hide the transaction from his business financial records, inappropriately managed client funds, attempted to intimidate and coerce a client, and did not issue and maintain proper and accurate client records, including an Agreement for Fees and Services, invoices and receipts. In making these findings, the Authority found that the Agent had failed to maintain the reputation and integrity of the migration advice profession.
An abridged version of the Authority’s decision can be accessed below. Personal details have been removed in the interests of protecting the privacy of the persons involved.
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 cancellation means if this was your agent
The registration is removed. The agent's name comes off the Register of Migration Agents and they may not give immigration assistance. A cancellation is usually accompanied by a period during which the person may not be registered again.
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If this was your agent: the first week
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- 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
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.
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