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Melissa Menefise Ako

Current licenceProvisional licence

Current licenceProvisional licence

Licensed since 2025: 1 year
Published IPT appeals: 0
Licence type: Provisional
Licence number: 202507627

About this licence

Melissa Menefise Ako holds a current provisional licence from the Immigration Advisers Authority, first issued in 2025. The register places them at Hope Advisers in Wellington.

Licence number: 202507627
Licence type: Provisional
First licensed: 2025
Licence status: Current

Mirrors the IAA register, refreshed October 2026. If the register and this page differ, the register is right.

Register context

Where this licence sits in the register as at October 2026. Every figure comes from the IAA public register; none is editorial.

First licensed in 2025, alongside 243 others from that year still licensed today. About 10% of the 1,752 immigration advisers holding a current licence were first licensed more recently.
Holds one of 309 provisional licences on the current register.
One of 58 currently licensed immigration advisers based in Wellington.

Immigration and Protection Tribunal record

No published tribunal decisions were matched to Melissa Menefise Ako. Matching is conservative: decisions name the representative by initial and surname only, so a decision is shown only where that name points to this person with certainty. Most immigration work never reaches the tribunal at all. If appearances are missing, .

Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal decisions

No published decisions of the Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal were matched to Melissa Menefise Ako. A decision is linked to a profile only once the decision itself confirms which immigration adviser it concerns. Published decisions are listed in the tribunal decisions archive. If a decision is missing, .

Licence history

1 filing on the register

Provisional licence issued - Initial application18 February 2026

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Frequently asked questions

As at the Immigration Advisers Authority register refresh in October 2026, the register records Melissa Menefise Ako as holding a current provisional licence, number 202507627. If the register and this page differ, the register is right.

The register records a provisional licence. Under section 19 of the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, a provisional licence is one of the three licence types the Registrar may grant, and it carries the conditions that section sets.

The register places Melissa Menefise Ako at Hope Advisers in Wellington, as at the refresh in October 2026.

No matched published decisions. No published decision of the Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal has been matched to Melissa Menefise Ako; a decision is linked to a profile only once the decision itself confirms which immigration adviser it concerns.

The register records Melissa Menefise Ako as first licensed in 2025.

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About this licence

Register context

Immigration and Protection Tribunal record

Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal decisions

Licence history

Before you engage any immigration adviser

Check the licence yourself

Ask for a written agreement

Complaints go to the IAA

Frequently asked questions

Is Melissa Menefise Ako a licensed immigration adviser?

What type of licence does Melissa Menefise Ako hold?

Where does Melissa Menefise Ako work?

Has Melissa Menefise Ako been named in a published disciplinary decision?

When was Melissa Menefise Ako first licensed?