What types of licenses are available?

There are three different kinds of licenses: full, limited, and provisional. While the areas of competence are similar for all three types of license, the level of knowledge required will be different.

Full license: Granted when an advisor has proven overall competence in all areas of immigration advice. An advisor with a full license can provide advice across the entire range of immigration matters.
Limited license: Authorised advisors to provide immigration advice, without supervision, in relation to specified matters only. A person who holds a limited license may have chosen to specialise in one particular area, so they must prove that they can provide advice, unsupervised, in relation to that specialist area only.
Provisional license: Allows an advisor to provide immigration advice, but only under the direct supervision of a fully Licensed Immigration Advisor. A provisional license may be granted to:

o New entrants to the industry, who have some knowledge of immigration
matters but little or no experience.

o People who do not qualify for a full license but are otherwise sufficiently
competent to provide advice under supervision.

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