Dakshkumar Dipakkumar Patel: registration cancelled by OMARA on 20 Oct 2025
Registration removed. The agent may not give immigration assistance, usually with a period before they may re-apply.
The decision stated a period of not be registered for a period of five year from 20 Oct 2025, which on its face runs until 20 Oct 2030. Decisions can be reviewed and varied, so confirm the current position on the register.
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 20 October 2025, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to cancel the registration of Registered Migration Agent (RMA), Mr Dakshkumar Dipakkumar Patel (MARN 2418384).
The Agent must not be registered for a period of five years from the date of the decision.
The Authority is satisfied that:
- The RMA’s application for migration agent registration was known by him to be false or misleading.
- The RMA is not a person of integrity, or is otherwise not a fit and proper person to give immigration assistance.
- The RMA breached his obligations under section 15 of the Migration (Migration Agents Code of Conduct) Regulations 2021 (the Code).
The Authority found that the RMA:
- Provided immigration assistance while not registered as a migration agent and lodged applications under another RMA’s MARN.
- Knowingly made a false declaration in his migration agent registration application to become an RMA.
- Engaged in conduct in breach of his obligations under the Code.
- Is not a person of integrity or otherwise a fit and proper person to provide immigration assistance as per paragraph 303(1)(f) of the Act.
On 23 October 2025 the Agent lodged an application for review of the Authority's decision with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
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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