[2024] NZIACDT 2 — NS v Registrar

Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal · decided 8 January 2024

The tribunal's published summary

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

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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.