Are Recommendations for Visas Really Important?

Godwin Hulse

The Immigration Minister also defended the purpose of recommendation of persons to receive visas. He says it’s about who knows you, not who you know.

Senator Godwin Hulse, Minister of Immigration

“So this issue, that somebody would recommend somebody in China to come here and they don’t know somebody; when you ever recommend somebody you know? It’s not recommending that somebody you know, it’s to say that “Jack, who I know,” or maybe who’s a supporter, wants to bring somebody  – if all is in order, issue the visa,  you shouldn’t even need the recommendation. That could never be a criminal offence; by no stretch of the imagination.”