About

Who is behind this website

My Visa Lawyer is an informational website about Australian immigration law. This page sets out who we are, how a law practice is regulated here and how to check all of it for yourself.

General information, not legal advice. This page sets out how the law generally applies. It does not take account of your circumstances, and you should get advice about your own situation before acting on it. The official sources this page is written from are listed on it; where they differ from anything here, they are the authority.

Last updated: 23 September 2026

There is a great deal of immigration advice online and much of it does not say who wrote it. This page says. It is deliberately short on adjectives, because the things worth knowing about a law practice are checkable facts rather than claims.

My Visa Lawyer is an informational website about Australian immigration law. Legal services on this website are provided by Jameson Law. It is not a separate firm. When you engage us you are engaging the law practice, and every address, phone number and email address on this website belongs to it.

The practice

Jameson Law is a law firm in New South Wales. The firm’s head office is at Suite 301, 67-69 Philip Street, Parramatta NSW 2150, and it has a Sydney CBD office at Level 35, Tower One, International Towers, 100 Barangaroo Avenue, Sydney NSW 2000. It also has offices at Blacktown, Liverpool and Bankstown.

The firm can be reached on (02) 8806 0866 or at [email protected]. Those are the details the firm publishes on its own contact page and they are repeated here unchanged.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. There is a section below on what that means.

Meet the Jameson Law team on the practice website. Before you engage the practice, ask which solicitor will have carriage of your matter.

What the practice does

We work on Australian immigration matters. In practice that means advising which pathway fits your circumstances, preparing and lodging applications, responding when the Department of Home Affairs asks for more, and acting after a refusal or a cancellation.

The services section sets out the main areas in detail.

Partner and family visas, onshore and offshore
Skilled and employer-sponsored visas, including state nomination
Student and graduate visas
Visitor and other temporary visas
Refusals and cancellations, including merits review at the Administrative Review Tribunal

If a date is running against you, say so when you first make contact rather than waiting for an appointment. Review time limits are strict, the limit that applies to you is stated in the decision record you were given, and in migration matters the Tribunal has no power to extend it.

A law firm, not a migration agency

Both registered migration agents and Australian legal practitioners may give immigration assistance. They are regulated differently, and it is worth knowing which one you are dealing with before you hand over your documents.

Since 22 March 2021 an Australian legal practitioner who holds an unrestricted practising certificate may give immigration assistance without being a registered migration agent. Holders of unrestricted certificates were removed from the register kept by the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority when that change took effect. A solicitor advising you on a visa matter will therefore have no migration agent registration number and will not appear on the OMARA register. That is not a gap in their credentials; it is where the law now sits.

What you can check instead is the practising certificate, and the next two sections explain how.

How a law practice is regulated in New South Wales

Solicitors in New South Wales practise under the Legal Profession Uniform Law, as applied in this State by the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW). A solicitor may only practise while holding a current practising certificate. The Law Society of NSW issues those certificates and describes its role in this as focused on the issue and enforcement of solicitors’ practising certificates.

A practising certificate is not simply a licence to trade. It carries obligations that run to you as the client: the conduct rules for solicitors, the duty of confidentiality, the duty of honesty to the court, cost disclosure rules, rules about how client money is held and the requirement to be covered by professional indemnity insurance.

Complaints about a lawyer in New South Wales go to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner, which receives all complaints about lawyers in the State and deals with them under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW). It is independent of this firm. Our complaints page explains how to raise something with us first and where to take it if that does not settle the matter.

How to check a practising certificate

You do not have to take any of this on trust. The Law Society of NSW publishes a Register of Solicitors, an online directory of New South Wales practices and solicitors who hold a current practising certificate. Search a solicitor’s name and you can see whether their certificate is current.

Two things are worth knowing about the register. The type of practising certificate a solicitor holds does not necessarily reflect the position that solicitor occupies at their principal place of practice, so the register is not a guide to seniority or role. And the register covers solicitors: a registered migration agent who is not a lawyer will be on the OMARA register instead, not this one.

If you cannot find a solicitor or a firm on the register, the Law Society Registry can help on (02) 9926 0333.

Do this for any immigration adviser you are considering, including us.

What the liability limitation means

The firm publishes the line Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. It appears in the footer of this site and it means something specific.

A professional standards scheme is approved under the Professional Standards Act 1994 (NSW). Where a participating solicitor is sued over their professional work, the scheme caps the damages a court may award, provided the requirements set out in the scheme instrument are met. The cap is fixed by that instrument rather than by one figure that applies across the profession, and a participating member can apply to have theirs increased. The Law Society of NSW administers the scheme for its solicitor members in private practice, who must either register under it or apply for an exemption, and it publishes the scheme instrument.

The limitation does not reduce the duties a solicitor owes you, and it does not affect your right to complain to the Legal Services Commissioner or to dispute a bill. It limits the amount of civil damages recoverable in the circumstances the scheme covers.

What this website is, and what it is not

Everything on this site is general information about Australian migration law. It is not legal advice and it cannot be, because it knows nothing about your circumstances. Reading it does not make you a client, and sending an enquiry does not either: the firm acts for you once a conflict check is done and you have a costs agreement. How we work sets out that sequence step by step.

Some things are missing from this site on purpose.

Fees. No figures, not even a range. What a matter costs depends on the visa, on your history and on how much of the work you do yourself, so a number published here would mislead you. You get it in writing before substantive work begins.
Processing times. The Department of Home Affairs publishes indicative times for each visa and they change. Check them at the source rather than on a law firm's website.
Outcomes. No success rates, no case studies, no guarantees. The decision belongs to the Department, or on review to the Tribunal.
Reviews and testimonials. None are published here.

Each page carries the date it was last updated and the official sources it relies on. If a page here and an official source disagree, the official source is right, and we would like to know: tell us.

Privacy, terms and accessibility

Our privacy policy sets out what personal information the practice collects through this site, how it is handled and how to ask for access to it, under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. The terms of use cover the website itself.

Our accessibility page sets out the standard this site works to, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and how to ask for the same information in another format if any part of the site is hard for you to use.