[2019] NZIACDT 57 — LT v SH

Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal · decided 7 August 2019

The tribunal's published summary

Breach of professional obligations and Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007 / providing misleading information / visitor visa application declined due to failure to declare previous exclusion from Australia / complainant assisted by an education agent / alleged agent was unlicensed subagent of adviser / in explaining earlier failure to declare, adviser sent letter to INZ which made no mention of unlicensed advice / futile application / Code of Conduct 2014, cl1, cl9a, cl9b / Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, s44 / no lack of due care / no evidence agent was a subagent of adviser / client aware of risk of failure / failure to obtain written acknowledgment of risks not sufficiently serious to meet threshold in this case / complaint dismissed.

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