Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
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Tyndall & Co. are experienced solicitors based in Byron Bay, Australia. We are also a worldwide Australian immigration lawyer and a management consultant. We have a branches in Mayfair, London, and a management & business consultancy in the USA. We can help you with information about migrating, investing, working, doing business and the law in Australia.
Australia has become a highly sought‑after destination for people seeking opportunity, stability, and a better quality of life. It is a stable constitutional monarchy, a liberal democracy, and a first‑world nation with strong institutions and a well‑established rule of law rooted in British legal tradition. The country offers a high standard of living, excellent wages and working conditions, sound investment prospects, sustained economic growth, and enduring political and economic stability.
Australia protects individual rights through robust legal frameworks and a keen national sense of justice. It has a deep natural and Indigenous heritage, together with a growing national commitment to recognition, respect, and reconciliation with First Nations peoples. With vast open spaces, a relatively small population, a warm climate, and a culture of spiritual, religious, racial, and ethnic tolerance, Australia offers both physical and social room to thrive.
Australians value fairness, community, sporting excellence, and the enduring ANZAC spirit — a tradition of courage, service, mateship, and loyalty to King and country, to our allies, and to doing the right thing. Australia is often called “the lucky country.”
It is, quite simply, fair dinkum.
The Sleeping Giant Rainforest, Belmopan, Belize
Jonathan with his driver who looked after him, outside the Supreme Court of Judicature and The High Court of Guyana in Georgetown, Guyana in the Caribbean in 2006. This historic building is made from timber and has a stunning statue of Queen Victoria.
Australia and Belize have established a bi-lateral relationship since 1982. Both are members of the Commonwealth, the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations. Belize was a former British colony and became independent in 1981. Being a Caribbean country, it participates in Caricom and is an important member state and is deeply connected to Caribbean culture (See: DFAT).
Whether you are a skilled professional, entrepreneur, investor, family member, or business owner looking to establish operations in Australia, professional legal guidance can help simplify the migration process.
Tyndall & Co. assists clients with:
Our Australian and UK legal teams assist clients internationally with migration, business expansion and cross-border legal matters.
Contact Tyndall & Co. today to discuss your Australian migration or business objectives.
Tyndall & Co. is a firm of Solicitors and an Incorporated Legal Practice, a worldwide immigration lawyer and provides migration advice, consulting and visa preparation and lodgement services.This includes both onshore and offshore visa applications; visa reviews and appeals for adverse decisions, including representation and submissions as to character issues with previous criminal convictions and a criminal record. We have offices in Australia and England, and a management consultancy in the USA.
Being a lawyer, provides the client with added advantages over and above a migration agent who is not a lawyer. For example, client files and information can be protected by “legal professional privilege” in certain cases, which means that the lawyer can’t be compelled to release confidential client information such as client contact details, confidential communications, documents or advice.
Here are some of the Australian Visa Subclasses and work we undertake as follows:
Skilled Independent Visas SC 189 and State Sponsored SC 190
with immediate Permanent Residence (“PR”) upon grant straight off
Sponsored Skilled Work Visas SC 186 ENS
which provides PR straight off
This visa pathway is for an applicant who has an internationally recognised record of exceptional and outstanding achievement in a profession, a sport, the arts, or academia and research; who is still prominent in that area; would be an asset to the Australian community; would have no difficulty in becoming established independently or obtaining employment; to be attested to and nominated by an Australian citizen, PR or eligible New Zealand citizen who has a national reputation in that area; and if the applicant is under 18 years or at least 55 years would be “of exceptional benefit to the Australian community.” This is a grant of PR straight off, including to the members of your family.
set up a branch in Australia under the SC 482 Skills in Demand pathway.
the “Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional)” visa with a regional pathway to PR and the Government and eligible family member sponsored counterpart.
for people with less skilled work experience that need occupational training whilst working for their sponsor.
for international students who have graduated on their student visas and want to do post education work, ranging from 18 months up to 4 years for British nationals.
for people 18 years to 30 years (35 years for specific nationals including the UK) with up to three visas.
for people 18 years to 30 years with up to three visas if you complete the relevant work.
including student visa cancellations, reviews and appeals. This type of visa has an enormous number of refusals and cancellations every year, and there is a “Genuine Student” (GS) requirement.
in the tourist, family or business stream and the
E-Visitor visa in the tourism or business stream (such as conferences, negotiations, meetings).
for short term work in a specialised job for up to 6 months and intercompany transfers, secondments and specialised deployments.
including same sex partners,
both Temporary and PR; and the
to allow you to come to Australia and marry your partner.
Contributory Parent Visas SC 173 and SC 143 and Contributory Aged Parent Visas SC 884 and SC 864
– allowing Parents to migrate to Australia.
being a handy pathway for a quicker decision to bring a parent out.
to allow children to migrate to Australia as a PR, including certain adult children.
for front door asylum seekers.
whilst awaiting decisions on substantive visas, for waiver of Visa Overstay for unlawful non-citizens seeking clearance; or waiver for exclusion periods or re-entry bans PIC 4013.
by application, descent or conferral, including applications for evidence of citizenship for a Certificate of Australian Citizenship and applications to resume citizenship.
To be eligible to apply for citizenship by conferral, you must have lived in Australia on a valid visa for four (4) years immediately before applying. Also, you must have been a PR for twelve (12) months immediately before making an application and not have been absent from Australia for more than one year in total, during the four (4) year period, including no more than 90 days in the twelve (12) month period before applying. Good character, basic knowledge of English, intention to reside, a continuing association, knowledge of privileges and responsibilities of Australian citizenship are other conditions.
Representation against cancellation of Australian citizenship
VACCU or Visa Applicant Character Consideration Unit Character submissions
to pass the “character test” under S501 Migration Act including representation and submissions about previous convictions, any adverse ACRO report, prison time and extenuating circumstances including submissions.
Preparation of reviews to the ART (Administrative Review Tribunal) the former AAT (Administrative Appeals Tribunal) against visa cancellations or refusals, Removal / Deportation decisions and Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE) requirements. We prepare cases and appear for clients in all States before the ART and provide testimony from international witnesses.
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia review applications
for Judicial Review of a migration decision or lack of a decision based on jurisdictional error.
Federal Court of Australia appeals from a single Judge migration decision
Passport applications
Change of Name applications and certificates
With applications to Births, Deaths and Marriages
Applications for registration of de-facto relationships
Tyndall & Co. is a small, private and experienced firm of lawyers. We provide legal services in business law, corporate law, family law, property law, trusts, criminal law, wills, offshore law and immigration law. Being a lawyer, we provide added advantages to you in business migration. Tyndall & Co. is the opposite of the mega-lawyer and actually wants to help you the client.
"Management is the art of achieving objectives through the efforts of other people". Being lawyers, we are better placed to advise and help clients assess, make strategic decisions and implement their management approach, structurally. This way clients can achieve agreed management objectives, which can be realised to their fullest potential. We help our clients live in the solution, not the problem and achieve business success in Australia with access to local and overseas markets.
Article about failing the Character Test because of criminal convictions and why that may not be lethal to a visa application or a visa grant because of the Ministerial discretion.
07 July 2025 by Jonathan de Vere Tyndall
Article about buying residential property in Australia and FIRB approval.
This website is provided for general information purposes only and does not constitute legal, migration, tax, business, or other professional advice. The legal services described on this website principally relate to Australian law, migration and associated international matters. Unless expressly stated otherwise, no advice is provided regarding the laws of any other jurisdiction. Viewing this website does not create a professional relationship. Professional advice should be obtained for individual circumstances.
