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Mary Heath, Registered Migration Agent. Offices in Perth, Western Australia and online services.

Check if there is a faster or cheaper option to get a visa for Australia. All visas, including Partner Visas, Skilled Migration, Temporary Employment (Subclass 457) and the permanent employer-sponsored visas.
The only service we do not offer is to find you a job in Australia.

Mary Heath
Registered Migration Agent 0005790
Viacorp Hello Australia

Visa Selection

We will assess you for your chances of successful migration, according to the visa regulations. I ask you to send me your details on our online forms. Checking your situation against the immigration regulations is essential.

If your case looks good, we send out a Service Agreement with prices and government fees, followed by the forms and documents for visa application. We provide an Agreement for all visa application services.

Visa Overview

Partner Visas. These visas have become increasingly popular in the last three years because of the complexity of GSM visas, and the long Departmental delays. A Partner Visa is relatively fast and simple in structure. If your partner is overseas, we handle the offshore application by sending the documents to the correct Immigration Department office.

General Skilled Migration (GSM) Visas and Employer-Sponsored Permanent Visas. These are for highly skilled people with occupations on the Skilled Occupations lists and the various Employer-Sponsored lists. An Employer-Sponsored Permanent Visa application from overseas is complex, but in general with an employment offer, the visa will go through within months. A GSM Visa can take 18 months plus. If it looks like you may be low on points for a GSM Visa, or there is another problem., then we make alternative suggestions for gaining more points, or other visa options.

We regularly help applicants with the process of applying for an Engineers Australia Competency Demonstration Report (CDR). More details on this.

Temporary Employer-Sponsored Visas, Subclass 457. For these visas also, an employer is required in Australia. The 457s are for electronic application and will usually be processed in weeks (compared to GSM visas, which can take years). But we cannot find you an employer.

Other visas. There are a range of other visas that we can process, including Child Visas, Parent Visas and Other Family visas.

MRT Appeals. We specialise in appeals on medical grounds.

Skills Assessment application for GSM or some Employer-Sponsored Visas

On receipt of your forms and supporting documents for Skills Assessment, we prepare the application to the assessing authority. The disbursement to the authority is A$300 - A$600 (and much more for some medical professionals), depending which authority we submit to. For example, Engineers Australia are currently costing A$550-600, depending if you are overseas or in Australia. Current prices are given in the Service Agreement.

Visa Application Processing

Family Migration Visas do not require skills assessment. But they have sponsorship and forms for family in Australia and Assurance of Support arrangements to make with Centrelink, if required. We send out all forms to the applicant and the sponsor.

I advise people on their document preparation and skills assessment for a GSM Visa or Employer Sponsorship. Much of this is handled electronically.

When we have a positive Skills Assessment, and other documents and forms are in order, we apply for your visa. Preparation of visa applications will normally take us several weeks, depending on family numbers, which visa you are applying for, and if you have sent in correctly prepared documentation.

We are available by email and telephone to help with the documents and forms.

Costs and Charges

Costs for the initial assessment are from A$660, depending on the visa. For this fee you receive a formal assessment of your situation, sent by email attachment. This is also your deposit fee for continuing applications.

Most permanent visas cost either A$2960 for applicants in Australia or A$1995 for applicants overseas. This is payable to DIAC. The States of Australia can sponsor a particular skill in demand in their area. The State charge for Western Australia is A$200 (correct to November 2011).

Family Migration visas cost less than other permanent visas because there is no skills assessment. Health checks cost approximately A$300 for each person. These are ball-park figures to give you an estimate because the prices vary in overseas countries.

Our charges at Viacorp Hello Australia for skills assessment and visa application vary with the type of visa, whether you have family or an employer sponsorship, whether the visa requires an Assurance of Support, and other factors. As a guide only, Skilled Migration Visas cost more than A$4000 and Family Visas cost less than that.

Payment and Invoices

To pay for one of our services, there is a secure credit card facility on this site, or we can supply bank details for electronic transfer.

We ask for application payments to the government authorities and our service fees before applications are submitted. This means that the costs will come to you over a period of several months. Payments can be made online by credit card from most countries, or electronically by bank transfer from any country.

For a migration visa we will estimate in advance and provide a contract, but consultation on minor matters is usually charged by the hour.

About Registered Migration Agents

What we do

An Australian Migration Agent advises people who want to come to Australia, or who want to remain here. If you are not a citizen of this country, then you are required to have a special permit to stay here: this is called a visa.

Please note that we do not find applicants an employer. That is not part of our service.

Can you help with a refused or cancelled visa?

We advise on appeal cases of visa refusal if there are good grounds for appeal. Many students come to us with cancelled visas. It is worth being very careful of the regulations when you hold a Student Visa.

Do Migration Agents help with the refugees?

Some Agents are employed by the Catholic Migrant Centre or other community groups to assist refugees gain a Protection Visa to remain in Australia, or to come here from war zones where civil law has broken down, such as Afghanistan and the Middle East. However, this is a specialist area, and not all Agents take on refugee clients unless their office is set up to handle these cases. We do not handle refugee cases.

Are you a registered profession?

Migration Agents are registered with the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA) to be qualified in Australian Migration Law. In Australia it is illegal, with fines and prison sentencing, to practice as a Migration Agent without registration. In the past too many 'agents' have given foreigners false information, or simply been ignorant of the law themselves. Quite a few queries come through from Bangladesh or China, where a local 'Migration Agent' gave them 'advice'.

There is a complaints procedure, should a client have cause to complain of an Agent's conduct. This is through the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA), as stated in the Code of Conduct on their webpage there.

Where does your business do business?

We have a city office in Perth and run an active internet service too.