Looking for an Australia PR consultant in Dubai? Choose one that names its MARA-registered agent, lets you check that agent on the public OMARA register, scores your points and occupation before quoting any package, and puts staged fees in writing. Cosmos Immigration works this way from Oud Metha, Dubai, and has done since 2014. We are rated 4.8 from 2,551 Google reviews, and the registered agent on your file is named before you sign.
Reviewed 21 October 2026 (page copy and Cosmos details). Regulator guidance quoted below was accessed 24 July 2026.
Who Cosmos is. Cosmos Immigration (Cosmos Visa Services L.L.C) has prepared Australia and Canada PR files from Dubai since 2014. You can visit us at Office 105-25 & 110, Al Fajer Complex, Umm Hurair Road, Oud Metha, Dubai (+971 4 357 7796), or at Office 1402, Abdullah Darwish Building, Al Salam Street, Abu Dhabi (+971 2 645 8723). We also have offices in Hyderabad (India) and Oakville (Canada), and we work with professionals and families living in the UAE. Your Australian file is handled by a named MARA-registered agent (Andrew John Kerr, MARN 1069227).
The right one is registered with MARA at the individual level, names the agent who will run your file, assesses your points and occupation honestly before selling a package, and never promises the outcome. Apply the criteria below to us and to every other firm you are considering.
Australia regulates migration advice through individual registration, not company branding. The firm should name the MARA-registered agent (with their MARN) who will handle your case and give you a direct link to the OMARA register. "We are Australia-registered" without a named, searchable agent is not enough.
Verify: search the MARN on portal.mara.gov.au and confirm it is current.
Subclass 189, 190 and 491 each suit different points scores, occupations and state or regional nominations. A credible agent runs a points assessment and checks your occupation against the current skilled lists before recommending a route - not the package that is easiest to sell.
Your occupation must be assessed as suitable by the designated authority (ACS, VETASSESS, Engineers Australia and others). The agent should confirm the correct authority, the evidence it expects, and how your UAE experience will be documented - before you lodge anything.
Fees should be quoted per stage against defined deliverables - assessment, skills assessment support, EOI and lodgement - in an engagement letter you sign before paying. An "all-in" quote before your profile is reviewed is a sales hook.
No agent can guarantee permanent residence; Home Affairs decides. An agent who puts a promise in writing is signalling the wrong thing. The honest deliverable is a points and eligibility assessment that shows where your profile stands today.
This is the usual order for someone living in the UAE applying for subclass 189, 190 or 491:
Home Affairs decides every case, so no consultant can promise the outcome. Invitations depend on each round's points cut-offs, which move. Our SkillSelect invitation rounds page tracks recent rounds with their dates and links to the official Home Affairs results.
Fees are charged in stages and agreed in writing before you pay; see how our fees work. We also turn files away when they are not ready. Cases we declined sets out the seven patterns we decline most often, and why.
"There is only one type of agent who can lawfully provide migration advice in Australia - an OMARA registered migration agent." - Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA), accessed 24 July 2026
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Regulator that licenses individual Australian migration agents. Paid migration assistance is restricted by the Migration Act 1958 to MARA-registered agents, lawyers with immigration endorsement, and certain exempt categories — all individuals. The MARN is held by a person, not a firm.
What you should see: an active MARN (Migration Agent Registration Number) under the named individual's name. If your engagement letter does not name a MARA agent with their MARN, that is itself a flag — we name the registered associate on every Australian engagement letter.
Verifiable in under two minutes, directly on the MARA public register — no login, no fee, no appointment needed.
If you pay someone for Australian immigration assistance, they must be registered with the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA), be an Australian legal practitioner, or fall under a narrow exemption. UAE residents should confirm the named agent's MARN on the OMARA register before paying anything.
Ask for the named agent and their Migration Agent Registration Number (MARN) in writing, then search it on the official OMARA register at portal.mara.gov.au and confirm the registration is current, not suspended or cancelled. A firm that will not name a registered individual is the answer to your question.
No. No agent can guarantee a permanent residence result. Australia's points-tested system and the Department of Home Affairs decide each case. A credible agent gives you an honest points assessment and skills-assessment plan, not a promise.
It depends on your points score, occupation and whether a state or region will nominate you. Subclass 189 is points-tested with no sponsor; 190 needs state nomination; 491 is a regional provisional route that adds points. A proper assessment compares all three against your actual profile and occupation list.
Your occupation must be on the relevant skilled list and assessed as suitable by the designated assessing authority (for example ACS, VETASSESS or Engineers Australia), which reviews your qualifications and experience. UAE work references must document duties that match the nominated occupation. Requirements change - verify against current Home Affairs guidance.
Any firm you are considering. Ask for the full name and MARN of the agent who will handle your file, then search it on the OMARA register at portal.mara.gov.au and confirm it is current. At Cosmos Immigration, your Australian file is handled by a named MARA-registered agent (Andrew John Kerr, MARN 1069227), so search that name or number.
At our head office: Office 105-25 & 110, Al Fajer Complex, Umm Hurair Road, Oud Metha, Dubai, +971 4 357 7796. If Abu Dhabi is closer, use Office 1402, Abdullah Darwish Building, Al Salam Street, +971 2 645 8723. The profile review can also be done by video.
The Department of Home Affairs publishes the official figures on its SkillSelect invitation rounds page. Our own SkillSelect invitation rounds page summarises recent rounds for applicants in the UAE and links to the official results.
Yes. If your points, occupation or documents will not support an application yet, we say so at the profile review and tell you what would need to change. Our cases-we-declined page lists the patterns we see most often.
Apply these criteria to every firm on your list, including Cosmos. The firm that survives them is the one to engage. Request an Australia PR points review.
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