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Referral coordination

For: Anyone who needs regulated advice

Where a matter requires a lawyer or a regulated immigration representative, we say so and help you reach one, including how to verify that person's authorisation yourself on the relevant public register.

Included in this work

  1. 01

    Identifying when a matter must go to an authorised professional

  2. 02

    Explaining how to check a public register of authorised representatives

  3. 03

    Coordinating handover of the material you have already assembled

Deliberately outside this work

  • Acting as, or substituting for, an authorised representative

  • Receiving referral commissions in place of transparent fees

Government requirements

Verification of any professional's authorisation should be made directly against the relevant regulator's public register.

Requirements, fees and processing times are published by the responsible authority in the destination jurisdiction. This practice does not restate them here, because a figure copied onto a private website is out of date the moment the authority changes it.