MARA is the Australian Government's regulator for migration agents. Cosmos works with MARA-registered agents whose names appear on the Office of the MARA's public register at mara.gov.au — and the licensed agent handling your Australia case is named on your engagement letter before any fee.
The Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority is the Australian Government body that licenses migration agents under the Migration Act 1958. Each registered agent receives a MARN — a Migration Agent Registration Number — that attaches to the individual practitioner, not to a firm. The agent must complete continuing professional development annually, hold professional indemnity insurance, and abide by the MARA Code of Conduct. Breaches of the Code can result in suspension or cancellation.
For Australian immigration matters, only MARA-registered agents and Australian legal practitioners with a current restricted practising certificate are lawfully permitted to provide immigration assistance for compensation. Working with anyone else is a federal offence in Australia. The protection runs in your favour: a regulated practitioner is accountable to MARA, and you have a defined complaints pathway if something goes wrong.
If the search returns nothing, returns a different name, or shows a status other than active — stop the engagement before paying anything else. Screenshot the result and the date. At Cosmos, the named MARA-registered agent appears on your engagement letter; you verify before you sign, not after.
Most Dubai consultancies hold (or claim) one regulator badge. Cosmos works with practitioners licensed by three:
That matters when your case has options across two or three countries: your file moves between licensed practitioners under one engagement, with one point of contact, instead of restarting with a different firm for each country.
About one in five free profile reviews at Cosmos ends with us declining to take fees, because the profile isn't ready for Australia under the current settings. The MARA Code of Conduct requires honest written advice; we take that seriously. If your points score is borderline, if the SOL/MLTSSL listing is risky, or if your work-experience documentation has gaps, we'll say so before any retainer changes hands.
No fee, no obligation. We tell you in twenty minutes whether your profile is ready for Australia, and we'll name the MARA-registered agent who would handle your case before any engagement.
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