[2025] NZIACDT 40, KM v Jiang (Sanctions)

“Sanctions / adviser failed to directly communicate or engage with client (‘rubber stamping’), breaching eight professional obligations / client a victim of immigration fraud / Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, s3, s50, s51 / Code of Conduct 2014, cl1, cl2e, cl14, cl18a, cl26ai, cl26aiii, cl26b, cl26d / direct engagement a fundamental obligation of advisers, failure enabled immigration fraud to occur / gravity of wrongdoing at upper end of moderate / third complaint in eight years of practice / adviser acknowledges wrongdoing and expresses remorse / further training unnecessary given appreciation of wrongdoing / formal prevention of adviser reapplying for licence unnecessary / adviser censured / financial implications of all sanctions decisions considered / ordered to pay $4,000 financial penalty /”