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John Bell
Senior Migration Agent
Registered Migration Agent Number (MARN): 0321386

John Bell has been involved in the immigration industry since 2000 and before this has had extensive experience in the IT industry in Australia and the UK. He is tertiary qualified and has gained vast experience in international immigration law over the years working in the UK and Australia.

John has practiced in Australia as an Australian Registered Migration Agent since 2003 and as a UK immigration specialist in the UK and in Australia since 2000. The combination of John’s extensive international immigration law and IT experience is a perfect fit for the services provided by National Visas.

John is also a member of the Migration Institute of Australia.

Simon Delmo
Senior Migration Agent
Registered Migration Agent Number (MARN): 1066328

Simon has been involved in the Australian migration industry since 2005. He is formerly of the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship. At the time of his departure from the Department he was the manager of the Complex Cases Unit for Victoria. Simon also served for 2 years as the Portfolio Holder for Skilled Migration in the Department’s contact centre and spent several years training Departmental staff on all visa types. He has extensive visa and immigration knowledge. His specialty areas are Skilled Migration and people who have ‘unlawful’ status in Australia.

In addition to his undergraduate degree Simon has completed his Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law and Practice. He is a member of the Migration Institute of Australia.

Simon also has experience in online business, having worked in the United Kingdom for a leading e-commerce company.

Nicole Kirkwood
Migration Agent
Registered Migration Agent Number (MARN): 0962323

Nicole Kirkwood specialises in Skilled Migration, Employer Sponsored visas and Parent visas. She enjoys working in the complex and ever changing field of Migration Law. Nicole began working in Migration in 2006 with the Refugee and Immigration Centre (RILC) and she continues to work with RILC in a voluntary capacity today.

Nicole understands first-hand how important and sometimes emotional the experience of applying for a visa can be. Her first experience with Australian Immigration, over 10 years ago, was a personal one with her husband’s partner visa.

Prior to working in migration Nicole was a Project Manager for one of Victoria’s most successful private property developers.

Nicole has completed an undergraduate degree majoring International Relations and Commerce Law at Deakin University and also a Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law and Practice at Australian National University (ANU).

Nicole is also a member of the Migration Institute of Australia.

Matilda Beluli
Migration Agent
Registered Migration Agent Number (MARN): 0958254

Matilda has over 5 years experience working in a legal environment having worked in two legal firms in various capacities before completing her Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law & Practice at Victoria University and joining National Visas. Matilda is also fluent in Albanian.

Matilda specialises in Partner and Visitor Visas and also has experience in Employer Sponsored visas.

In addition to her work with National Visas Matilda volunteers with the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (RILC) in Melbourne.

Prior to receiving her Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law & Practice, Matilda has also completed a Diploma of Financial Services (Conveyancing) and Advanced Diploma of Business (Legal Practice) from RMIT.

Ivanna Cheng
Migration Agent
Registered Migration Agent Number (MARN): 1066462

Ivanna has many years of experience working with speakers of English as a second language in various fields of business, including wholesale trade, building development and hospitality. She also speaks Chinese Mandarin.

Ivanna was awarded the prestigious Sir John Monash Scholarship for Excellence for her double degree in the Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Music at Monash University. She continued on to do Honours, and most recently received the Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law and Practice at the ANU.

Ivanna has experience in business, family, visitor and student visas.

Jemma King
Migration Agent
Registered Migration Agent Number (MARN): 1066013

Jemma has been exposed to various aspects of the corporate world since finishing her undergraduate degree in Legal Studies in 2008.

Jemma completed her Graduate Certificate in Australian Immigration Law and Practice at Victoria University and commenced her migration work at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) in a voluntary capacity in 2009.

Since this time Jemma has primarily worked in the Employer Sponsored field and has also experienced Visitors Visas and Family Migration.

Jemma is a member of the Migration Institute of Australia.

National Visas Other Staff:

National Visas staff are from diverse cultural backgrounds and some have recently migrated to Australia.

Katherine Kim
Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) Advisor

Katherine is a qualified accountant and has over 16 years accounting experience.

Katherine is National Visas’ Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) Advisor, she manages our ETA visas and also provides accounting and administrative support.

Prior to joining National Visas in 2008 Katherine worked for a number of large international companies in Korea, in both accounting and account managerial positions.

Katherine has completed an undergraduate degree in Accounting at Shingu University in Korea and also a Diploma in Accounting from Holmesglen in Australia.

Katherine migrated to Australia in 2006 with her husband and children and speaks fluent Korean.