/ Private client
Suzanne Fay
Suzanne runs Tasman Visa, advising on visas for Australia and New Zealand. She has made the move herself twice: Hungary to New Zealand with her family, and seven and a half years later to Brisbane. She came to it from international recruitment, where enough people asked her for help moving that she went back and got licensed to answer them properly. She is also married to Mate, which is said here because a review from a family member should be read as one.
- Also written Fay Zsuzsanna
- Where Brisbane, Australia
- Online tasmanvisa.com
- Profile Tasman Visa on Trustpilot
What they work with
- Both sides of the Tasman
- The two countries use different words for it and she is careful about which: a registered migration agent in Australia, MARN 2418652, and a licensed immigration adviser in New Zealand, licence 202400067. Both numbers are on her own site, which is where a client checks them.
- Telling people no
- Her own line is that if she thinks somebody has no viable chance she will say so, and that she takes the long view: not whether you can get in, but whether you can settle and build a life once you are here.
- Recruitment, before the licences
- International recruitment in Auckland, and before that HR and leadership coaching for senior people. The immigration work grew out of being asked, over and over, by the candidates.
Where they work
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Work, student and residence visas and skills assessment, for Australia and New Zealand. Clear pathways across the Tasman is the line on her own site.
What they said afterwards
Mate helped me save hours of work!
Mate helped me save hours of work by showing me how to prompt it myself. Now, a task that took me hours to complete takes only a few seconds. I am so grateful that he explained how easy it is nowadays to use AI to make my business more efficient. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in making their work easier and more efficient.
She runs a migration practice and wanted the hours back that the paperwork around it takes. That turned into ongoing work rather than one session: Mate looks after the Tasman Visa website and the research side with her, and AI does most of the work in both. The advice is hers, and so is the practice; neither is described here.
She has done it herself, twice
She moved from Hungary to New Zealand with her family, stayed seven and a half years, and then moved again to Australia. That is the part of her own history she leads with, and it is the reason the practice exists: people kept asking the recruiter how to get here, and answering properly turned out to need a licence. So she went and got one, provisionally in New Zealand first, then registered in Australia.
Her own description of the business is that it is not an agency. One adviser, who says out loud when the answer is no.
