Sarah Frankel

Sarah Frankel PRACTICE LEADER - SKILLED MIGRATION

Admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia

Law Council of Australia – Migration Committee of the Federal Dispute Resolution Section

Profile

Sarah is an experienced immigration lawyer who leads Estrin Saul Lawyers’ skilled migration practice.

Her comprehensive understanding of the field has allowed Sarah to successfully assist people with a diverse range of complex matters including navigating skilled migration pathways, responses to accusations of false and misleading information, merits review in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and appearances at the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.

She has recently had exceptional success with complex cases including multiple positive AAT outcomes for nominations under the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (subclass 187) and a section 109 visa cancellation matter decided on the papers.

 

Recent cases

8 December 2022 – Successful at Administrative Appeals Tribunal (overturning of cancellation of permanent visa under s107)
5 December 2022 – Successful at Administrative Appeals Tribunal (subclass 187 nomination refusal for retail manager)
17 November 2022 – Grant of Student (subclass 500) visa to offshore applicant who had previously applied for a refugee visa
14 October 2022 – Subclass 408 (COVID event stream) visa granted after cancellation of previous substantive visa
1 August 2022 – Grant of subclass 482 visa to applicant affected by the PIC 4014 exclusion period
9 August 2022 – Successful at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Subclass 187 nomination for secretary)
12 August 2022 – Successful at the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia in relation to an AAT decision made on the basis of the genuine temporary entrant criterion (Pena v MICMA)
29 June 2022 – Successful at Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) – PIC 4020 matter involving evidence of English language study
16 June 2022 – Successful grant of medical treatment visa for applicant who had been an unlawful non-citizen following visa expiry
17 May 2022 – Successful at Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) – Subclass 187 nomination for personal assistant at regional satellite office
10 May 2022 – Successful grant of subclass 408 visa to applicant following cancellation of visa under section 140 of the Act
7 April 2022 – Successful grant of subclass 482 visa to applicant who previously withdrew a visa application after receiving a PIC 4020 natural justice letter

6 October 2021 – Successful at AAT (457 nomination refusal) where nominee was an owner of the business

13 September 2021 – Successful at AAT (186 direct entry nomination refusal for events manager)

29 July 2021 – Successful at AAT (187 nomination refusal for floor finisher)

19 July 2021 – Successful at AAT (187 nomination refusal for office manager)

30 June 2021 – Successful at AAT (Working holiday visa refusal)

15 June 2021 – Successful at AAT (186 TRT nomination refusal) where applicants lost the right to a hearing due to failure to respond to s359 notice)

 

Testimonials

 

ESTRIN SAUL are Efficient, Integrity, Professionalism, Empathic and very Experienced. You can trust them for absolutely the best outcome. My family and I highly recommend Estrin Saul to help with all your migration concerns. Our case was long and complicated however we ended up with a successful result under Sarah’s professional help. I don’t think I could get same successful result if I were handling the case by myself or with the other agent. I would like to thank the team at Estrin Saul and especially Sarah who is really understanding, helpful, and did the excellent job. I wish you and your team all the success in the future and also good luck to all the applicants. Thanks a lot… KK

Because of my agent me and my family had 20 days to leave Australia. Then I met Sarah and her team at Estrin Saul Lawyers. Today everything changed thanks to Sarah me and my family got more time to sort out my visa matter. And I hope to continue with Sarah with regard to our AAT.  Excellent service and I will recommend to anyone who is having visa issues please contact Sarah and the team. Definitely they can help for any visa matter. My opinion Five star is not enough.’ BBG  

Academic Background

College of Law, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (2018)

Australian National University, Graduate Certificate in Migration Law and Practice (2015)

University of Western Australia, Bachelor of Laws (2013)

University of Western Australia, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (2013)

Languages

English

Contact Details

P +61 (0)8 9485 0650

F +61 (0)8 9463 6464

info@estrinsaul.com.au