[2019] NZIACDT 72 — INZ (Gilray) v Croxson (Peter John Croxson)

Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal · decided 18 October 2019 · adviser: Peter John Croxson

The tribunal's published summary

Rubber stamping / allowing unlicensed people to manage visa application process and unlawfully delegating personal obligations to them / failure to provide clients with written agreement / adviser engaged by offshore immigration consultancy which had been engaged by recruiting agency in another country / adviser’s fee paid by consultancy / adviser had no direct communication with clients / agreement signed by consultancy not clients / all clients’ dealings with unlicensed people / adviser mistakenly believed consultancy was his client / Code of Conduct 2014, cl1, cl2e, cl3c, cl17, cl18 / Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, s442 / adviser had no contact with clients whatsoever & left them to deal with unlicensed people whom he did not know / adviser admitted failure to engage with clients and having no written agreement / adviser did engage with file / quality of work not substandard & did not lack care / complaint upheld.

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