Harsh YADAV: registration cancelled by OMARA on 26 Aug 2026

What the Authority decided

On 26 August 2026, the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (the Authority) decided to cancel the registration of Mr Harsh Yadav (MARN: 2117646) following an investigation into the Agent’s conduct.

The Agent must not be registered for a period of five years from the date of the decision.

The Authority was satisfied that the Agent breached his obligations under sections 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 32 of the Migration (Migration Agents Code of Conduct) Regulations 2021 (the Code).

The Authority found that the Agent:

• Did not notify the Department that he had provided immigration assistance, as required under section 312A of the Act.
• Acted in a way that was intended to evade a requirement of the migration law by providing immigration assistance without notifying the Department.
• Knowingly provided false and misleading statements to the Department in support of visa applications.
• Engaged in conduct that was reasonably likely to damage the reputation of migration agents and the immigration advice industry.
• Failed to fully respond to requests made by the Authority.
• Failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that immigration assistance in his business was provided only by registered migration agents.
• Failed to take reasonable steps to ensure the quality, accuracy and timeliness of work performed by persons assisting him to provide immigration assistance.

The Authority was also satisfied that the Agent was not a person of integrity, or otherwise not a fit and proper person to give immigration assistance.

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.

Nobody is acting on your matter right now. Treat this as urgent, and start with who the Department is writing to.

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.