By Ashutosh Raina

Scope Migration is a successful migration firm, based in Brisbane, with an extremely proactive and experienced team that is totally client focused.

Vivek Chopra and Abhishek Vora are behind this venture and behind thousands of smiles for many of their clients.

Vivek has worked in Audit, Assurance and Risk Advisory role for the last 10 years. He is a CPA and an executive committee member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and QLD Divisional Council executive committee member of CPA . Vivek is an executive committee member of the Australia-India Business Council QLD, looking after the SME sector and also acts as a mentor for various university students and potential CPA candidates.

Abhishek is a registered migration agent and has worked in the immigration industry in Australia for more than eight years. He holds a Masters with Honours from Griffith University and has also completed a post-graduate course in Australian Migration Law and Practice from Griffith, is registered with MARA and is a member of Migration Institute of Australia, Migration Alliance and Migration and Education Alliance of Australia.

Abhishek trains Migration agents every week from all over Australia in the area of file management and record keeping. Abhishek has trained more than 150 migration agents in this area.

We had a chat with Scope Migration and discussed about their services, mission and future vision.

• Company’s Mission and Vision:

Scope Migration wants to make an impact in the industry where migration agents are looked upon as friends, advisors and confidants.

Scope Migration’s goal is to convert the tedious, confusing and time consuming process of immigration into a pleasant experience with help of simple, step-by-step, easy to understand instructions. Customising their solutions to suit needs, goals and aspirations – whether one is a student, an employee, a visitor or a business, clients will find a tailored solution at Scope Migration.

Being client focused is not only being customer service oriented but having the knowledge of constantly monitoring regulatory changes regarding the immigration policies and sharing that knowledge with their clients to help them make the right decision.

• Office Location:

We have our headquarters and Brisbane office located at the prestigious golden triangle section of the CBD, which is close to all modes of transport.

• Value-Adds and Initiatives:

Scope Migration has utilised technology and come out with a unique client portal systems is open for access (to clients) 24 hours of the day, every day. Clients dont have to make frequent phone calls to get a status update or to wait anxiously for an email to see when their application is being lodged or what has been the outcome of your application. “Engage with us anytime, from anywhere”, is their motto!

Scope Migration is working towards creating Mobile apps for streamlining their processes to enhance the client’s lean process time towards an application, to provide them a record turn-around positive responses from complex applications within the Immigration Department.

Scope Migration’s team is multi lingual – English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada,German, which allows them to engage with their clients in their native language.

• Services which Scope Migration can assist their clients are as:

Committed to adherence to MARA’s Code of Conduct, and their membership with Migration Alliance (MA), and Migration and Education Alliance of Australia (MEA) keeps their skills sharpened and ethical delivery.

1. Skilled Migration (TR/PR)
2. Employer Nominated or Sponsored Migration (457/RSMS/ENS)
3. Family Migration (Partner, Parent Visas)
4. Student Visas and Admissions
5. Citizenship Applications
6. Business and significant investment visas
7. Visitors Visas
8. Assistance with Tribunal hearing and representation at the Tribunal
9. Humanitarian visas (refugee and protection visas)

• Something about your Social/community engagement:

Apart from the professional work, Scope Migration is actively involved in community events, broadcasts and support systems. In the past 12 months, they have been the major Gold and Platinum sponsors at some of the community events like Diwali Mela, Punjabi Mela, Gujarati Brahman Samaj, Kerala community and many Indian Celebrity Singer performance events. Scope Migration has proactively engaged with a leading Radio Station where thousands of listeners tune in every Thursday and ask migration / education questions live on radio which is aired in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Worthwhile mentioning is the fact that this weekly radio event is executed by Scope Migration voluntarily, at no cost to each listener that contacts the Radio team.

For more information, you can visit http://www.scopemigration.com.au/

(Source: Interview with Scope Migration Directors and market research through sources)