100% Australian owned

About Us

An Australian and New Zealand Migration Practice built on outcomes, not promises. Australian and New Zealand Immigration Assistance for Employers, Individuals and Families.

Our story

Founded by Migrants, Built for Migrants

Skilled Migration Group is Australian owned, and was founded by migrants to Australia.

Just like the visa applicants that Skilled Migration Group assist to start a new life in Australia and New Zealand, the founders of Skilled Migration Group were born outside of Australia.

One founder was born in Aotearoa, which is the indigenous Māori name for the country known in English as New Zealand, and the other founder was born in England.

Both of the founders of Skilled Migration Group became Australian Citizens as soon as they became eligible, which was more than 30 years ago.

Australia is often nicknamed the lucky country, where everyone is given a fair go.

New Zealand is frequently called "God's Own Country" (or colloquially "Godzone") which dates back to an 1890 poem about New Zealand by Thomas Bracken. Bracken was also the author of the words to the national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.

Whether you migrate to The Lucky Country or Godzone, Australia and New Zealand both warmly welcome people from overseas.

Our Group is living proof that you can arrive in Australia with nothing but a dream, drive and a desire to make the best of what you have.

In Australia and New Zealand you get out what you put in.

Today the principal company of the group is Skilled Migration Group Limited. It is owned outright by its two Australian founders, citizens for more than thirty years, and incorporated in Hong Kong as the central base for a group that trades globally.

Twice we chose more regulation than the law required: incorporation in Hong Kong, with its genuine governance and audit obligations, rather than a brass-plate haven, and Australian registration for every agent, including one who lives outside Australia where registration is not required at all.

Immigration assistance for Australia and New Zealand is provided by Australian Registered Migration Agents and New Zealand Licensed Immigration Advisers. Their details can be viewed by clicking here and their registrations can be verified on the public registers of the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority and the Immigration Advisers Authority.

Here to stay

A Global Organisation

Skilled Migration Group is here to stay.

Skilled Migration Group began in International Recruitment.

Over the last 25 years, teams from Skilled Migration Group have been meeting face to face in 57 countries all over the world. With job applicants, visa applicants, employers, and people seeking established migration pathways into stable jurisdictions.

Over more than two decades that work grew into something more deliberate:

An Australian Registered Migration Agents and New Zealand Licensed Immigration Advisers Practice.

Connecting employers with the people worth sponsoring, and handling the visa that decides where a new life begins and where a new workforce is built.

Skilled Migration Group has evolved into a global organisation providing Immigration Assistance to employers, individuals and families seeking visas and a new life in Australia and New Zealand.

Skilled Migration Group employer clients have included:

Sole operators Family-run businesses Multinational companies ASX-listed companies
What we stand for

Integrity. Respect. Sustainability.

Integrity

How we conduct business matters. We adhere to all laws and what is morally right at all times; compliance with anti-corruption laws and our code of conduct is essential. Our high ethical standards apply to everyone - shareholders, managers, employees, clients and candidates.

No one has the authority to waive these requirements, and we expect everyone who works with us to share our commitment to integrity in all business dealings. These are not just words - they are commitments we publish and hold ourselves to:

Respect

Every candidate and every client works with a named, registered professional, and is treated as a person - not a placement. Respect runs both ways: for candidates, for clients, and for our own team.

Sustainability

Health, safety and environmental responsibility are core to how we operate. We don’t just help people to migrate: we develop people, and help build and add value to the communities we recruit from and deploy to.

A brief history

Quality that was certified, not just claimed.

ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration issued by SAI Global to Central Queensland Site Services Pty Ltd in 2012 (Certificate No. QEC29659)
SAI Global - ISO 9001:2008, Certificate No. QEC29659. Originally certified 16 March 2012.

The company that became Skilled Migration Group started as an international recruitment business in Brisbane over two decades ago. In 2012 one of its founding entities, Central Queensland Site Services Pty Ltd, was certified by SAI Global against ISO 9001:2008 - with a scope written specifically for the international recruitment, immigration and deployment of certified tradespeople to the heavy earthmoving, mining and equipment industries.

Unusually, highly specialised recruitment, immigration and deployment were combined in one certified system rather than three. That system was later merged into the group that formed Skilled Migration Group today.

The certification itself expired in 2015 and is shown here as a matter of historical record, not current registration.

What has continued is the disposition it represented - that quality in this work should be documented, audited and answerable, not asserted.

That same disposition runs through the Code of Conduct, Modern Slavery Policy and Whistleblower Policy referenced above.

Australian Immigration Assistance and Visas for Australia

Australian Registered Migration Agents

Australian Immigration Assistance

New Zealand Immigration Assistance and Visas for New Zealand

New Zealand Licensed Immigration Advisers

New Zealand Immigration Assistance

Skilled Migration Group Limited

CRN 2265814 BRN 65042502

Australian Registered Migration Agents | New Zealand Licensed Immigration Advisers | International Recruitment

145 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai, 999077, Hong Kong SAR.

Strictly by appointment only | International Dial In Number +61 7 5690 2203 (1PM - 10PM Hong Kong Time (HKT)).

Australian Registered Migration Agents

Dennis Henry Hickman MARN 2619185 - Verify with MARA

Dr Valerie Hirsch MARN 2217837 - Verify with MARA

Josephine Naomi Poole MARN 2619279 - Verify with MARA

Yue Sun (Billy) Leung MARN 2619275 - Verify with MARA

New Zealand Licensed Immigration Advisers

Dennis Henry Hickman IAA 202602618 - Verify with the IAA

Dr Valerie Hirsch IAA 201900918 - Verify with the IAA

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