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  About Us

Since establishment in 1990, Hamilton Watts has developed to be one of Australia’s leading visa consultancies and, we believe, one of the very few such consultancies to specialise in the provision of immigration services nation wide to the corporate sector.

The company presently employs twelve personnel in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra. At the core of the business are several ex senior officers of the Department of Immigration providing a level of experience, knowledge and know-how unequalled, in our view, by any other agency. This alone totals over 100 years of combined immigration experience and knowledge.

We have concentrated our efforts on the provision of professional advice and support to companies and consequently, we have become particularly skilled in the areas of employer sponsored business visas for Long-Stay Temporary Residence, Permanent Residence, Business Skills Migration, Australian citizenship and resident re-entry opportunities.

However, the pool of knowledge and experience available to the company allows us the scope to provide advice and assistance over a full range of immigration related matters. All our Consultants are fully accredited Registered Migration Agents.

Through our global linkages, we are able to assist our corporate clients with moves to many overseas locations including the United Kingdom, North America and New Zealand.

 

 

  The HWIMS Team

Laurie Duncan jp, Managing Director, RMA: 9794834, Melbourne 

Laurie joined Hamilton Watts in December 1997, after a 29-year career with the Department of Immigration in a broad range of operational areas in Melbourne, Brisbane and the USA. His last two appointments in the Department of Immigration were as Western Regional Manager, and State Manager, Residence in Victoria. In addition to these appointments Laurie travelled extensively overseas during the last eight years of his Department of Immigration career, training airline, embassy and other staff in Australia’s visa systems. Laurie’s varied background and specific technical expertise in visa systems and control has further broadened the company’s ability to meet client outcome requirements.
Contact: laurie.duncan@hwims.com.au
Lachlan McPhail, Director, RMA 9474375, Sydney 

Lachlan joined Hamilton Watts in 1993, after working in the field of social welfare, and is the company's longest serving Migration Agent. Lachlan has significant experience and knowledge across a broad spectrum of industry sectors. He is a motivated professional who successfully manages the migration requirements of a number of the company's significant clients. Lachlan is one of the company's experts on change of status and employer sponsored migration. Lachlan relocated to our Sydney Office in  February 2005. Lachlan was appointed as a Director in December 2007. 
Contact: lachlan.mcphail@hwims.com.au

Tony LeNevez, Manager Operations, Senior Consultant RMA: 0743920, Melbourne

Tony worked for the Department of Immigration for 23 years before joining Hamilton Watts in October 2006. He has extensive experience in policy, program management and personnel development areas in the Department’s National Office in Canberra. From January 1999 to February 2002, he worked in the Parliament House Office of the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Tony's operational experience includes overseas postings to Bangkok, Athens and Vienna, and he brings a wide range of migration expertise from Asia, the Middle East and Western and Eastern Europe.  Tony holds a Graduate Certificate in Migration Law and Practice from the University of Victoria.
Contact:
tony.lenevez@hwims.com.au

Graeme South, Manager, RMA: 9803747, Sydney

Graeme joined Hamilton Watts in January 1999, after returning from a Government posting as Australian Consul in Vancouver. Graeme had over 25 years experience in the Australian Department of Immigration including earlier postings to Edinburgh and Warsaw. He also held senior management positions in the Residence and Compliance Divisions of the Department in Sydney. Graeme’s extensive recent experience and personal commitment to client service further adds to the company’s ability to effect appropriate and successful outcomes for our clients.
Contact:
graeme.south@hwims.com.au
Brendan James, Senior Consultant RMA: 9681572, Melbourne 

Brendan was recruited from the Department of Immigration’s Head Office in Canberra in 1994, where he was employed as an IT Professional. He was trained within Hamilton Watts and was first registered in 1995. Brendan’s experience with the technologies and systems design methods used within the IT and Communications industries is of significant valuable to the company’s pool of expertise. 
Contact: brendan.james@hwims.com.au
Jacinta Tangey, Senior Consultant  RMA: 9902581, Melbourne

A La Trobe University economics graduate, Jacinta joined Hamilton Watts in 1998 and registered as a Migration Agent in July 1999 following internal training with the company. As well as concentrating on temporary and permanent business visas for a number of the company's significant clients, Jacinta has acquired considerable knowledge and experience in Skilled Migration, Family sponsored Migration and Occupational Trainee visas, which makes her a valuable asset to the team.
Contact:
jacinta.tangey@hwims.com.au
Claire Ritchie, Senior Consultant, RMA: 9792694, Sydney and Regions

A Monash University graduate, Claire was recruited by Hamilton Watts in 1996, following three years work experience in Japan involved in international recruitment and relocation of foreign personnel. Claire was fully trained within the company and was first registered as a Migration Agent in 1997. Claire manages a number of substantial Sydney based clients. Needless to say, her experience working as a Migration Agent to date, knowledge of relocation issues within the Asia Pacific region and Japanese language skills are also of significant value to the company. 
Contact: claire.ritchie@hwims.com.au
Amanda Love, Senior Consultant RMA: 0638911, Melbourne

Amanda joined Hamilton Watts in April 2006 after working in the Department of Immigration for over 13 years. She has varied experience in a broad range of operational areas within the Departments regional office in Melbourne and offshore at the Australian Consulate General, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam and short-term postings to Malaysia and Indonesia. Amanda offers substantial experience across the Department's programs in migration, residence and temporary visa issues. 
Contact:
amanda.love@hwims.com.au
Richard Tan, Senior Consultant RMA: 0429043, Melbourne

Richard is a Monash University graduate. He joined Hamilton Watts in 2002, as Office Manager. Richard was registered as a migration agent in 2004 and is now a full-time Consultant. He is fluent in several Chinese languages and  Malay. Richard
also brings significant organisational skills to the company.
Contact:
richard.tan@hwims.com.au
Francesco (Frank) Fazzito, Senior Consultant RMA: 0742956, Melbourne

Frank joined Hamilton Watts in July 2007. He was first registered as a migration agent in 1998, following over seventeen years experience in the Department of Immigration where he worked in a number of areas, operational and administrative, including overseas postings to Fiji and Rome. Frank brings a sound knowledge and understanding of the principles and practicalities of the Department’s permanent and temporary migration programs and also occupational skills assessment.
Contact: frank.fazzito@hwims.com.au
Angela Parmeter, Office and Accounts Manager, Melbourne

Angela joined Hamilton Watts in 2006, as Office Manager. Angela came from a residential lending background, most recently from the banking sector and has significant experience in office management both here and in the United States where she lived for 4 years.

Contact:
angela.parmeter@hwims.com.au
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