[2019] NZIACDT 4 — P v K

Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal · decided 5 February 2019

The tribunal's published summary

Failure to exercise due diligence and care / failure to provide written agreement / Application for residence / EOI declined due to showing insufficient points / adviser failed to inform client / adviser lacked capacity to practice due to medical condition / adviser subject to a number of complaints & licence cancelled / Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, s442 / adviser no longer capable of defending or giving instructions concerning complaint / appropriate to uphold the complaint to extent necessary to order a refund of fees / incapacity found in terms of s 442c of the Act / complaint upheld / adviser ordered to refund $7,750 in fees & disbursements.

Read the full decision (PDF, Ministry of Justice)

This page reproduces the tribunal's own published summary as a fair report of public tribunal proceedings; the linked decision is the authoritative record. A decision is not itself a finding of wrongdoing — some complaints are dismissed. Complainants are anonymised by the tribunal. Complaints about advisers go to the Immigration Advisers Authority.