Each visa and immigration applicant hopes that his or her case can be heard in a reasonable, legal and procedural manner. Of course, it is best to sign as soon as possible smoothly and smoothly. I believe that this is what most visa officers can do. Although we never know who they are, there are very few exceptions.
In recent years, the immigration minister has been aggressively reforming the visa system, and the increasing number of applications is one reason, and perhaps another reason why two years ago, there was a big bang-one involving 59 illegal immigrants. More than five hundred thousand Australian dollars in immigration visa officer corruption cases!
One day in 2013, inspectors at Brisbane airport stared at two suspicious Vietnamese, looking around as they queued through the border, looking nervously.
The inspectors waited until they passed the customs. The passport scan showed that the visa status on the computer was skilled immigrants. One was management accountant, the other was construction project manager, but the two people could not speak English at all ("did not speak a word of English"). How could it be a skilled immigrant? Under the cross-examination of the customs, the two men admitted that they were actually farmers.
Then something even more strange happened. When the customs entered the system to check their complete visa data, it showed that the damage to the documents could not be opened!?
The two were eventually repatriated, and the immigration authorities' worst corruption scandal so far has just begun.
The two men were signed by Alex Allan, a visa officer at the Brisbane office of the Immigration Service. The corruption stems from the fact that he helped 17 relatives and friends in the Philippines get skilled immigration visas.
Then his best friend, Minh Huy Lam, encouraged him. Why don't you do a big job with this?
So over the next five months, Alex Allan frantically approved 42 skilled immigrant visas, each divided into 15000 Australian dollars, Minh Huy Lam as an intermediary, collect his money to help him contact, and send the money to Alex Allan in cash.
According to full statistics, Alex Allan received a total of $563290 in bribes between May 2013 and April 14, "helping" 59 applicants get visas, most of them farmers who don't speak English at all. To become a "qualified" skilled immigrant.
Why is it easy to manipulate visa results?
According to the prosecution's statement, Alex Allan takes advantage of the opportunity of temporary promotion to "executive management" by first using administrative level privileges to log into the computer system, then assigning the application to itself for trial, and finally signing it all easily.
Alex Allan's lawyer argued that he had been forced to sign illegally, and that he had thought of stopping it, but the bribe in turn threatened him to uncover all his filth.
If you take money to take care of the disaster, you can only carry on with it.
Alex Allan was sentenced by the District Court to eight months' imprisonment and compensation for the loss of goverment, whose annual salary at the Immigration Service was more than A $60, 000, and his son and daughter, who had also been illegally signed, were deported. Minh Huy Lam was also punished as an accomplice.
Judge David G Searles who handed down the sentence
In June of last year, the corruption case was brought again, and a Queensland Supreme Court judge said the Alex Allan's sentence was too light and would continue to be heard.
But more poignantly, federal police said they could not find out where most of the illegal underwriters, including his relatives and friends, and those who bribed him, could not be found. The Immigration Service upgraded the internal system of visa processing immediately after the scandal, requiring multiple approvals to modify the distribution of visas and continuing to find out where those who had signed illegally were located.
This former visa officer is really crazy, farmers become skilled immigrants, hand-set knife brush to sign, so he can be concealed for almost a year, the Immigration Board really should be a good review of the matter! Of course, such a disheartened visa officer with no professional and ethical boundaries is one in a million, and his own internal corruption scandal with the Immigration Board dates back to 2003.
After reading the story, we all as a know, should be signed or patiently wait, the complete preparation or good preparation!
