Banafsheh Ostad (Sonia)

CurrentProvisional licence

Banafsheh Ostad is a licensed immigration adviser at Waikato Ethnic Family services Trust in Hamilton, holding licence 201900539 since first licensing in 2019.

Licence details

Licence number: 201900539
Licence status: Current
Licence type: Provisional
First licensed: 2019
Years licensed: 7
Licence last issued: 20 June 2025
Business: Waikato Ethnic Family services Trust
Role: Director
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
Published IPT appeals: 0

Source: IAA public register, refreshed September 2026. Verify on the official register.

Register context

Where this licence sits in the register as at September 2026 — all figures derived from the IAA public register, none editorial.

First licensed in 2019, alongside 93 others from that year still licensed today. About 47% of the 1,690 advisers holding a current licence were first licensed more recently.
Holds one of 309 provisional licences on the current register.
One of 104 currently licensed advisers based in Hamilton.
The register records 7 filings for this licence between 20 June 2019 and 18 June 2025.

Licence history

Every filing recorded on the register for licence 201900539, newest first.

Provisional licence issued - Renewal · 18 June 2025
Provisional licence - Renewal · 20 June 2024
Provisional licence - Renewal · 20 June 2023
Provisional licence - Renewal · 20 June 2022
Provisional licence - Renewal · 20 June 2021
Provisional licence - Renewal · 20 June 2020
Provisional licence - Initial application · 20 June 2019

Immigration and Protection Tribunal appeal record

No published tribunal decisions were matched to Banafsheh Ostad. That is not the same as never having appeared: decisions name the representative by initial and surname only, so where a name could point to more than one person on the register we leave it out rather than credit it to the wrong practitioner. Most immigration work also never reaches the tribunal at all. If appearances are missing, tell us on the corrections page.

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