About the Immigration Advisers Authority

Policy Guidelines:

• What is Immigration Advice?
• Renewals policy
• Supervision policy
• Competency Standard 5: English Language

Important Documents:

• Immigration Advisers Competency Standards [rtf, 7 pages, 280kB]
• The Authority's code of conduct [rtf, 4 pages, 138kB]

Trademark and Advertising Practices

Introduction

The Authority, through the Department of Labour, has applied to register the Trademark with the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand.

Your licence pack will include a CD with a jpeg format and an eps format of the Trademark. The eps format is provided for anyone that has the appropriate software to open in the eps format. It is identical to the jpeg format.

You may only use the Trademark if you have read, understood and agreed to the terms of the Trademark Licence Agreement (attached with your approval letter). It is standard practice to require the user of a Trademark to agree to its terms and conditions of use.

First, you must read and understand the whole Agreement. Secondly, there are some requirements around the use of the Trademark which you must follow:

• If you use the Trademark, you are deemed to have accepted the terms and conditions of the Trademark Licence Agreement.
• You may continue to use the Trademark while you hold a current Immigration Advisers Licence.
• The Department of Labour retains ownership of the Trademark. This is set out in clause 2.3 and clause 2.4.

How to correctly use the Trademark

• Only individuals can be licensed to give immigration advice. It must be clear that the Trademark is attributable to you as the individual licensed adviser. Your legal name(s) as it appears on the licensed advisers register must be clearly noted in close proximity to the Trademark logo. It is preferable but not compulsory that your registration number is also noted with your name in close proximity of the Trademark.
• When using the Trademark on a web page, on printed material or promotional material your name and the names of other licensed immigration advisers in your firm licensed to use the Trademark must be clearly visible on the same page as the Trademark in close proximity thereto. The names of the licensed immigration adviser(s) must not be displayed as hidden text or in a linked page to the Trademark on a website.
• The Trademark may be reduced or enlarged (as long as it is legible), but it cannot be edited in any way.
• The Trademark must be printed in the IAA colours. It may also be reproduced in black and white.