About Us
About Superior Migration Consultancy
Superior Migration Consultancy will provide a straightforward and honest appraisal of your situation and your chance of obtaining a visa or citizenship or a successful appeal.
- Our Company
- Our Commitment
Our Company
Our Services
We are a small and dedicated team committed to providing exceptional service in all areas of your visa journey, citizenship or appeal process. Our expertise covers refusal or cancellation appeals at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), Partner, Parent, Protection, Carer, Visitor/Tourist, Skilled Migration, Employer-Sponsored visas, State-Sponsored & Regional Skilled Visas, Student, Return Residence and more.
Partner visas are our speciality.
We are here to help you with your Australian visa or citizenship application or AAT appeal and support you in the whole process ‘from A-Z’.
Our Commitment
Our Services
Bigger is not always better.
SMC guarantees highly personalized, dedicated, and honest service that you can rely on.
We only take on the number of cases at any time which enables us to stick by our commitment to you. We can offer a personal touch and the expertise you need.
our team
Dr Phil West - Director & Principal Consultant
Dr Phil West was born in Melbourne, Australia and has a BA (Hons.), a Diploma of Education (Secondary), a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and a Graduate Certificate of Migration Law and Practice.
Dr West has studied in Australia, UCLA (University of California – Los Angeles) and carried out field research for his Doctorate in Washington DC and Latin America. He has also lived in the USA, Germany, and Latin America. Dr Phil also speaks fluent German and Spanish.
Notable Community Achievement:
Dr West is the Founder and was the establishment CEO of the national children’s charity, The Alannah & Madeline Foundation. This Foundation was established in the wake of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre and is dedicated to keeping children and young people free from violence and trauma.
Diana Velasquez - Registered Migration Agent
Diana came to Australia in 2008 as a student and is a proud Australian citizen today!
In 2016, once she became an Australian citizen, she decided to start a new path by studying Australian Migration Law, a topic that she started feeling passionate about when she had to apply for her visas by herself, including her own partner visa.
Now, she feel grateful to be able to help people to remain in Australia and to know that she contributes to building a better future for them.
Tamara Andrea Pena Porras - Accounts Manager
Like Diana, Tamara also migrated via the Independent Skilled Visa program. Tamara manages part of the SMC accounts via MYOB and assists with our Latin American clients and in other general tasks. Tamara also works for a major international women’s development organisation.
Fjorida Dragoti - Legal Assistant
Fjorida Dragoti was born in the beautiful lakeside resort town of Pogradec in Albania and completed her high-school studies there.
In 2009, Fjorida moved to Australia to live with her husband. Being a migrant gave Fjorida a personal experience of migration, so she chose to study the specialist Immigration Law course to assist fellow immigrants or new visa applicants.
Fjorida is now working in her field at SMC, as a part time Immigration
Legal Assistant & Client Services Manager and is also undertaking further
studies in Legal Services
HEAR WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY ABOUT US
Phil and the SMC team were fabulous! Highly recommended. Our case was very very complex. Katherine was Stateless living in a Burmese refugee camp in Thailand. No passport, no ID documents. Health checks were required outside of the camp, a police check waiver was required, an ‘exit permit’ from Thailand and so many other difficulties. Phil guided us through and went well above his responsibilities to help us with everything from A-Z over more than two years. We would recommend SMC without hesitation.
I can’t express my gratitude enough to SMC for their care, support and amazing work. My case was a complex partner case involving family violence that required many extra layers of work and support. I am now a Permanent Resident and moving on with my life. SMC provided emotional support (not a core area of their work!) and showed patience, diligence and the highest level of knowledge to achieve a successful outcome. I highly recommend Phil West and SMC for your visa process.
We wish to express our heart-felt thanks for Phil & the SMC team for their amazing service for our really complicated and difficult case.
My wife and small son were in a refugee camp with no passport or ID Card. The complications for them to travel out of the camp to go to medical exams, obtain a Thai ‘Exit Permit’ were very difficult and involved communication with the International Organisation for Migration & the Thai Ministry of the Interior as well as the visa processing desk at the embassy. The SMC team went well beyond what they were obliged to do to obtain a positive outcome for us. The process started in 2018 when we submitted an incorrect visa. SMC took over our case, corrected this error and then worked over four years on our case. At times my wife and I were really stressed & anxious but SMC were able to help reduce this stress on a personal level showing patience and care.
In September 2022, my wife and son arrived as Permanent Residents in Australia and we were at last reunited to start the rest of our lives as a family together.
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