[2024] NZIACDT 2, NS v Registrar

“Appeal against Registrar rejecting complaint / adviser lacked diligence in assessing client’s fabricated qualifications when introducing client to complainant for employment / acted despite conflict of interest / Registrar rejected complaint on basis it did not disclose any statutory grounds of complaint / Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, s7 / HELD / complainant employer not a client of adviser for purposes of Act / client’s evidence does not support complainant / evidence concerning client and adviser suspicious, but does not link wrongdoing of client to adviser / INZ verified qualifications as genuine / client and her agent represented qualifications as genuine / full investigation unlikely to uncover evidence of wrongdoing by adviser due to passage of time and client and agent residing overseas and being unlikely to co-operate / conflict of interest complaints fail as no evidence that client did not know of additional payments to adviser or agent / appeal rejected”