Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what enforcement action the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner is able to take against registered immigration advisors in cases where complaints against that advisor are substantiated.

The enforcement action that the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) is able to take against registered advisors is set out in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and the Commissioners Complaints Scheme (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/complain-about-an-oisc-regulated-immigration-adviser) which states:

34. If a complaint is substantiated, in whole or in part, it will be included in the organisation’s and adviser’s regulatory history.

35. The Commissioner may:

• leave the determination on file for consideration at the next relevant application for registration. Practice points may be issued;

• consider and conclude that the organisation and/or an adviser should have their authorisation immediately cancelled; or

• lay a Disciplinary Charge before the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration Services).