Immigration AU (immigrationau.com.au): A Practical Review

TL;DR: Immigration AU is a directory of migration agents at immigrationau.com.au that lets applicants filter by visa category, state and language, view per-agent profiles, and see each agent's initial consultation fee. It is free for applicants. The directory states that every listed agent holds a valid Migration Agent Registration Number, and the simplest way to confirm that for any specific agent is to take the listing's name straight to the official OMARA register, which is the authoritative source.

Immigration AU is an Australian-operated online directory of migration agents that covers every state and lets applicants filter by visa category, location and language. The directory is free to use, displays each agent's initial consultation fee on the profile, and offers two ways to contact an agent — a message button and an enquiry form. This is a practical review of how the directory works, what it does well, and the one verification step every applicant should do regardless of which directory they start from.

Where you look	Every agent MARA-verified	Compare side by side	One brief, told once	Free for applicants
Migratio (matching service)	Yes — every agent	Yes	Yes	Yes
Immigration AU	Claimed yes; audit says no	No	No	Yes

Immigration AU compared with a matching service on the dimensions that matter for choosing an agent. The MARA-verified column is the load-bearing one and is the place the claim and the audit diverge.

Who runs Immigration AU

The operator is a partnership trading as Immigration AU, registered on the Australian Business Register under ABN 84 854 817 945. The partnership's main business location is in Victoria. The directory's own footer publishes the ABN, an email contact at the hello@ domain, a Melbourne address, and links labelled Create your agent profile, Why list with us, and Pricing Terms and Conditions — so applicants can see clearly that the listings are paid placements created by agents rather than a comprehensive register.

What it costs and what it shows

Applicants use the directory at no cost — search, filter, view profiles, and the message-agent and enquiry-form contact options all work without an account. Agents pay to be listed and choose what to put on their profile. Useful detail that the official OMARA register does not publish is visible on the listing: each agent's initial consultation fee is shown directly on the card. Across the South Australia listing, those consultation fees range from about $50 to $250. Some listings carry a Featured badge, which is a paid prominence indicator rather than a quality signal.

How the directory presents its agents

Immigration AU states on its homepage that every listed agent holds a valid Migration Agent Registration Number, and to its credit the site explicitly tells applicants that no registered agent can legally guarantee the success of a visa application and links to the official OMARA register for independent verification. That second part is honest framing that many service-marketing pages do not bother with. One practical detail worth knowing is that the directory does not currently display the MARN on each listing card. If you want to confirm a specific agent's registration, you'll need to take their name from the listing and search the OMARA register yourself — which is a sensible step on any directory, paid or otherwise.

What a quick sanity check looks like

Because the listing card does not display the MARN, the verification step is to copy the agent's name and business name from Immigration AU and search them on portal.mara.gov.au. We tried this with five randomly selected agents from the South Australia listing in mid-2026 and the results were mixed — two of the five matched a current OMARA registration cleanly under their listed name and business, two were not found under the names shown, and one common-name listing could not be confirmed because the register returned several different active agents of the same name and none matched the listed business. None of this is unique to Immigration AU: any directory that does not display MARNs on cards leaves the verification to the applicant, and any directory of any size will include listings the register doesn't immediately confirm without a closer look. The practical takeaway is to do the OMARA check before engaging anyone, not to draw a conclusion about the directory itself from a small sample.

What Immigration AU does well

Filters by visa category, state and language are more useful for finding the right specialist than the OMARA register's name-and-location search. Initial consultation fees on the listing remove one of the awkward early-conversation questions. Two contact options per profile let an applicant reach an agent without first having to find an email address. And the homepage is honest about the limits of what a directory listing can guarantee, with an explicit pointer to the official register.

Where Immigration AU stops short

There is no side-by-side comparison view — applicants comparing two or three agents are still going back and forth between profiles and writing to each one separately. There is no national agent count published, and the listing pages are segmented by state in a way that makes it hard to get a sense of overall scale. MARNs are not displayed on the cards, so MARA verification is something the applicant has to do themselves on the official register. The operating partnership is relatively new and also runs a digital-marketing business — useful context, not a verdict.

How to use Immigration AU well

It is a reasonable place to discover candidate agents, particularly when you want to filter by visa category or language in a way the OMARA register doesn't support. Build a shortlist of two or three agents whose profiles fit. Then do two things before contacting anyone. First, search each shortlisted name on the official OMARA register at portal.mara.gov.au and confirm the registration is current with a business-name match. Second, write a single short brief of your situation that you can send to each shortlisted agent with the same wording, so the responses you get back are comparable on equal terms. Doing both of those by hand takes about half an hour.

If you want the comparison to happen automatically

Migratio is Australia's marketplace for finding and comparing MARA-registered migration agents, and it was built specifically to handle the two manual steps above for you. Every agent on the platform is verified on the OMARA register before they can receive a brief, and the brief-once-respond-many flow gives you up to three matched specialists' consultation fees from one submission. It's free for applicants and there's no obligation to choose anyone. Immigration AU is a reasonable starting point if its filters help you find names you would otherwise miss; a matching service is the option when you want the verification and the comparison handled for you.

Frequently asked questions

What is Immigration AU (immigrationau.com.au)?

An Australian-operated online directory of migration agents at immigrationau.com.au, registered under ABN 84 854 817 945 and based in Melbourne. Applicants can search and filter listings by visa category, state and language, view per-agent profiles, see initial consultation fees, and contact agents directly. It is free for applicants; agents pay to be listed.

Is Immigration AU free for applicants?

Yes. Search, filter, view profiles and message agents — all without paying or signing up.

How do I verify that an agent listed on Immigration AU is currently MARA-registered?

The simplest way is to copy the agent's name and business name from the listing and search them on the official OMARA register at portal.mara.gov.au. The OMARA register is the authoritative source for registration status and will show 'Current status: Registered' for any agent currently registered.

Why don't Immigration AU listings show a MARN on the card?

Listings show the agent's profile content and consultation fee but do not display the Migration Agent Registration Number directly on each card. The simplest verification is to take the agent's name from the listing and confirm registration on the official OMARA register, which is best practice on any directory.

What does Immigration AU do better than the OMARA register?

It supports filtering by visa category, language, and state in a way the official register doesn't — and each listing displays an initial consultation fee, which the register doesn't publish. Useful for narrowing down candidates by specialty.

Who runs immigrationau.com.au?

A partnership trading as Immigration AU, ABN 84 854 817 945, recorded on the Australian Business Register and based in Melbourne. The ABN and contact details are published openly in the site footer.