VISA AGENTS - is it a dodgy industry?

[wozzlegummich]

I'm chasing a decent Visa agent to assist my Thai partner in obtaining a tourist visa to Australia.

But everywhere I go I seem to get red flags about the validity of these companies. None seem to be above board. 

Are there any honest ones and if so can someone recommend one?

[cjinchiangrai]

Any time your success is based on under the table payments to government officials, it is dodgy. No idea how it works in Oz but in LOS it is an often overlooked occurrence.

 

You should not need an agent to get an Aussie visa but who knows. I don't even try in the US.

[Hummin]

8 minutes ago, wozzlegummich said:

I'm chasing a decent Visa agent to assist my Thai partner in obtaining a tourist visa to Australia.

But everywhere I go I seem to get red flags about the validity of these companies. None seem to be above board. 

Are there any honest ones and if so can someone recommend one?

Can't you do it online, and she, print, sign and delivers the documents needed and passport at the visa center/Embassy? 

 

That's what I have done for my wife. Tourist visa is easy if you have history, copies of your passport showing you have been in Thailand. 

[Nemises]

Nothing “dodgy” about the Visa agent I used to get a tourist visa to Aus for my TGF. 
 

In fact I used them again to get her 2nd visa …and will continue to use them in the future. 
 

The agent did everything. Couldn’t be happier. 

[hotandsticky]

7 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Any time your success is based on under the table payments to government officials, it is dodgy. No idea how it works in Oz but in LOS it is an often overlooked occurrence.

 

You should not need an agent to get an Aussie visa but who knows. I don't even try in the US.

 

 

Australian visas are not as easy as they should be for Thais. There is a real fear of the risk of flight with Thai women  -  I guess there must be a history of that.

 

I helped an Aussie friend to get a visa for his GF. We were successful but not until we excessively padded out the second application, after an initial rejection.