Australian Immigration Visas Lawyers Sydney Craddock Murray Neumann

Craddock Murray Neumann has a long and distinguished record of assisting people to settle in Australia as migrants.

We provide our clients with advice and representation in relation to all classes of visa including:

• Business owner / Investor visas
• Skilled visas
• Sponsored employee visas;
• Student visas
• Family sponsorship visas
• Humanitarian and refugee visas

We also act for clients where the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has cancelled a visa.

We are referred work by business, government, community organizations, and also by the many people we have assisted over the past twenty years – more than 3000.

Our firm is also proud of its work over the years sponsored by the Department of Immigration where the Department sponsors our firm to represent:

• applicants in detention seeking refugee status
• disadvantaged people living in the Australian community in a variety of visa applications -funding under the community scheme is limited and is means and merits tested.

Our team leaders

Our senior lawyers include:

• Michael McCrudden, who holds a Master’s Degree in immigration and administrative law.  Michael has extensive experience acting for employers and visa applicants in relation to skilled, sponsored employee and business visa applications, as well as applications in a wide variety of other visa classes, including refugee and humanitarian applications
• Nick Houen, who was awarded the University Medal (UTS).  Before qualifying as a lawyer, Nick spent ten years as an employee of the Department of Immigration – gaining first-hand knowledge of the procedures and culture of the Department.

How we can help

We are lawyers and migration agents.  Unlike migration agents who are not lawyers, we can help with:

• all of the visa applications available under Australian law
• all applications to the Migration Review Tribunal, the Refugee Review Tribunal and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• all applications to the Federal Court and the High Court of Australia.

Because of our legal training:

• we know how to present the facts
• we know how to argue a case
• we are able to assist our clients to make visa applications and also to challenge the validity of adverse migration decisions through the Tribunals and Courts.

 

Over the years our firm has won numerous applications before the Tribunals and the Federal and High Courts.  For example, we took our clients all the way to the High Court of Australia in the matter of NAGV and NAGW v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.  This was a complex migration matter– and the High Court decided the case in favor of our clients in a unanimous 7-0 decision.

We advise honestly and openly about the prospects of a case.  Visa applicants and business people need to know whether their application will have reasonable prospects of success, and whether they are wasting their money pursuing something which will never be obtained.

Whatever visa class you are seeking, at Craddock Murray Neumann we can advise you of the requirements and represent you so as to maximize your chances of gaining your visa.

Free legal asistance

As noted above, we also help disadvantaged people through funding provided  by the Department of Immigration. Funding is limited.  We might be able to help you if you:

• are living in Australia and;
• believe you might have a strong case  - a merits test applies and;
• cannot afford a lawyer - a means test applies.

Our fees – value

• We charge competitive rates for the work we do
• We provide:
• high quality service
• experienced and skilled lawyers
• honest advice so that our clients do not waste money pursuing a claim which has no chance of success
• an up-front estimate of fees, and in most cases, fixed or capped fees.

If you wish to find out more about our services, or want a quote on our fees, please Contact Craddock Murray Neumann lawyers in Sydney for friendly professional legal advice on Australian immigration visas.