Meet Hamza

Registered under Division 3 of Part 3 of the Migration Act 1958, bound by the Code of Conduct, and listed on the Register kept by the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority, Department of Home Affairs. He completed the course prescribed for registration, the Graduate in Australian Migration Law and Practice (GDAMLAP), and passed the industry Capstone examination.

Before migration law, Hamza worked in Australia in finance and data analytics, in consulting at Deloitte and then at the Seven Network and Compass Group. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University, Sydney, with training in economic theory, quantitative analysis, statistical methods and econometrics, and he attended the undergraduate summer school programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The habits of analysis carry over. Each matter starts with a structured assessment against the law in force; the evidence is organised before an opinion is given; the assumptions are written down; and the file is built so that another professional could follow it. The options are set out with their requirements and risks, and nothing is promised that the criteria do not support.

Immigration is one of the ways Australia builds its future workforce, and governing it well is complex: it needs long-term thinking, good data, and collaboration between the Commonwealth, the states and territories, and the professions. The states and territories matter in skilled migration because they deliver the services a growing population depends on, and they see the demand first: in health and aged care, in mining and energy, in construction and the trades, and in the engineers an infrastructure program needs.

Hamza follows those questions at the macro level as well as in the file: how the program is set and who it reaches; how the assessing authorities, the states and the Department fit together; how the economy and the population are changing; and how other countries manage immigration and the same choices. His interests are interdisciplinary, across economics, immigration law, data science and artificial intelligence, and they shape the advice: a client’s visa application is one decision inside an immigration system he tries to understand as a whole.