We have the experience and the track record to definitely succeed on your Australian migration application. In fact, we can guarantee success to you on your application, once we have assessed your background and eligibility. We only take on clients that we think we can succeed for. We are only interested in having clients pay for success.

We have pioneered the “The Rickard method of guarantee-based Australian migration™“. This enables us to guarantee that your application will succeed on the first attempt and, if not, that we will do another application for you or lodge an appeal against a wrongful decision by the Australian Department of Immigration & Citizenship (DIAC).

In over 15 years of migration work we can confidently boast that over 99% of our cases have succeeded on the first attempt .

 

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1. Immigration law is very complex and need an educated and wise legal adviser - Justin Rickard has three university degrees (including a law degree and a Masters in English literature), from Australia’s oldest www.usyd.edu.au and best university www.australian-universities.com/best-universities. He is studying for his fourth degree (Masters in Environmental Management) at The University of NSW www.unsw.edu.au. Justin Rickard attended excellent schools in London, Boston and Sydney - www.staloysius.nsw.edu.au & www.riverview.nsw.edu.au

2. You must ensure you pick a lawyer with as much broad and relevant experience as possible – there is unlikely to be anyone in Australia with the mixture of such broad litigation and then exclusive experience as an immigration lawyer and migration agent as Justin Rickard. His early training, whilst still a fresh law student, was in Australia’s most prestigious law firm, Allen Allen & Hemsley (now called Allens, www.aar.com.au) compiling evidence on behalf of their client Mr. Al-Fayed (www.al-fayed.com), who owns Harrods in London (www.harrods.com) and L’Hotel Ritz in Paris (www.ritzparis.com). He later became famous as the father of Dodi Al-Fayed, killed in the car accident in Paris with Princess Diana. After Allens, Justin Rickard was sent by them to London and worked for Freshfields www.freshfields.com, a leader among international law firms, providing business law advice of the highest quality throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the U.S. With over 2,400 lawyers in 28 key business centres around the world, Freshfields provide a comprehensive service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments.

3. Justin Rickard has also worked as a commercial litigation lawyer in Macquarie St., Sydney for 2 years and as a criminal defence lawyer for Australia’s Aborigines in Redfern and throughout remote rural NSW, www.coalsnsw.com.au. Such litigation experience will help if you needs to sue the Immigration Department to get his visa.

4. It is far better to have a legal representative who has travelled extensively overseas and is cross- culturally aware and educated – Justin Rickard has worked as a lawyer and or presented migration seminars throughout Bangladesh (2 times), Cambodia, China (4 times, including Beijing, Shanghai, Datong, Dalian, Dandong, Urumqi, Xian and Hong Kong), England, France, Fiji, India (3 times), Indonesia (9 times), Kenya (3 times), New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore (many times), South Africa and Zimbabwe (he will also be travelling this next 2 years for his clients to China, USA, UK and Czech Republic); he has lived overseas for over four years (Europe, England and the USA) – so he knows what the world is like outside Australia and why many people migrate to Australia.

5. You want your lawyer to have won many cases - Justin Rickard has represented over 1,300 people in successful migration applications to the Australian government after giving immigration seminars to well over 5,000 people worldwide, been interviewed about migration on talk back radio in Australia, Kenya and the Philippines (audience of hundreds of thousands of migrants) and personally interviewed & advised over 3,300 migrants (most still on our database). Even inside immigration Justin Rickard has specialized over the years in skilled, family and employer sponsorship cases. This has given him unique and unusual skills in understanding how companies operate, especially in relation to their accounts, finances and training systems, as well as how bringing migrants into Australia increases competitiveness in their industries.

6. We keep our knowledge current through memberships in professional groups such as the Migration Institute of Australia www.mia.org.au and the Law Society of NSW www.lawsociety.com.au as well as continuing education. Justin Rickard has also been an Australian government registered migration agent www.themara.com.au (# 97-90625) since 1994 – so he is subject to the disciplinary sanctions and oversight of these 2 professional bodies in everything he does for you. A migration agent who is not also a lawyer is only subject to MARA.

7. You can be secure as Justin Rickard was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of NSW www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/sc on 19 December 1986 and then all Federal Courts of Australia www.fedcourt.gov.au, which include the High Court of Australia in Canberra www.hcourt.gov.au.

8. Justin Rickard has also have been on the other side - as a sub-contracted lawyer for the Australian Immigration Department, starting in 1992 in the refugee camps in Port Hedland, W.A and Darwin, and this has further enhanced his knowledge and experience by giving him unique insights into how they operate and make decisions, often in such a poor, unjust and callous manner.

9. It was after this work with the Australian Immigration Department (now called DIAC) that Justin Rickard decided to set up his own practice as an immigration lawyer in 1994 so that he could help clients get full access to proper justice in their migration applications.

10 Currently we only accept about 70 – 80 new clients a year -- and this allows us to focus more time and attention on each client, as an individual with their own individual needs.

11 With our head office in Dee Why, only a few miles from JSR in Cromer, we are accessible to on the northern beaches of Sydney and far more convenient than travelling into the city in the traffic and dealing with the expensive and inconvenient parking there.

12 Our office is conveniently right next to the main bus stop on Pittwater Rd. Dee Why and there is always parking within 200m of our office next to the Dee Why post office on Oaks Ave.

13 We always respond quickly to our clients as our office is always manned 9 am – 6pm by highly intelligent law students or law graduates Monday to Friday. Mr. Rickard’s mobile is on at least 12 hours a day weekdays and messages can be left for him on it 24/7. Obviously, we work with clients by email and telephone for everyone's benefit.

14. We provide legal services that are usually not offered by other lawyers such as liaising with your accountant, recommendations to other trusted professionals and tradesmen on the northern beaches (as Justin Rickard has practiced law there for over 10 years he knows the sharks that swim out of the water in the area!) and confidential access to our unique network of worldwide lawyers and migrants.

15. You need a lawyer who is personally stable, honest and reliable – Justin Rickard, married for over 10 years to Lisa, has three beautiful children. They live on a small rural acreage near Sydney where they raise cattle and poultry and spend precious time together as a family. Lisa is a former winner of the Australian Financial Review Young Achievers (in business) award, a qualified real estate agent www.reinsw.com and child care teacher. Justin Rickard, a fifth generation Australian, comes from a distinguished lineage with his father, a retired Professor of Medicine at Sydney University, having received Australia’s highest civilian honour – the Order of Australia www.theorderofaustralia.asn.au for services to medicine and the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, where he rose to the rank of Surgeon Captain, www.navy.gov.au/reserves_new/home/Home.cfm.