Gold Migration Lawyers has closed. Urgent help for affected clients from Katsaros & Associates.
Your visa deadlines haven’t.
If your matter was with Gold Migration Lawyers, your application, your ART review and your Department deadlines are still running. We are taking on affected clients now.
Don’t wait and see. Act this week.
According to recent reports, and notices the firm sent to its own clients, Gold Migration Lawyers advised that it would cease operating from 1 June 2026. If you were a client, the most important thing to understand is this: your matter did not stop when your representative did.
Department and Tribunal deadlines generally continue to run regardless of whether your former representative has ceased acting. Missing one can cost you your visa. Our immigration lawyers in Melbourne can step in, protect your deadlines and tell you honestly where your matter stands.
This applies whether your matter was a partner visa, protection visa, employer-sponsored visa, citizenship application, a visa refusal, a cancellation matter, or an ART appeal. If you have received a withdrawal notice, a Form 956 withdrawal, or any message that your representative is no longer acting, do not assume your matter has stopped. Seek legal advice immediately.
For a full breakdown of the risks and what each matter type faces, read our briefing on the Gold Migration Lawyers closure.
Three risks right now
Your correspondence is going unread
The Department and the ART send notices, requests and decisions to the representative on your file. With Gold Migration Lawyers closed, those messages can land where no one is reading them, until you appoint a new representative.
Your deadlines keep running
Immigration deadlines are statutory. They run on a calendar, not on whether you currently have a lawyer. A missed ART date or Department request can cost you your visa.
Your file needs to move
Your evidence and submissions may be sitting with a firm that has shut down. A new lawyer can request your file and pick up your matter, the sooner that starts, the less is lost.
Your deadlines did not close with the firm
Immigration deadlines are statutory. Confirm your review period with the Administrative Review Tribunal and your obligations with the Department of Home Affairs, but do not rely on memory. Check the date on your decision letter.
ART review deadlines
Most migration and refugee reviews must be lodged within a strict statutory period, often 28 days, and the Tribunal generally cannot extend it. Check the date on your decision letter.
Decisions now on the papers
From 18 May 2026, the ART must decide certain temporary visa refusal reviews without an oral hearing, student visas first. Your written case is the case. There is no later hearing to fix it.
Department requests
If the Department asked for documents or comments, the response window keeps counting down. A missed request can be decided on what is already on file.
Bridging visas
If your bridging visa is tied to an application or review that lapses, your lawful status can end, sometimes without any further notice.
We take over your file mid-stream
Complimentary initial consultation
A focused review of your matter to tell you exactly what is urgent, with no obligation.
Urgent file reviews & deadline assessments
We map every live deadline first, so nothing slips while we get up to speed on your file.
ImmiAccount & correspondence recovery
We help you regain control of your ImmiAccount access and your Department correspondence.
ART & Federal Court representation
We have run hundreds of ART hearings and Federal Court reviews. We step in and carry your matter forward.
Strategic advice on your options
Refusals, cancellations, bridging visas and appeal rights, assessed honestly and clearly.
A new Form 956, lodged for you
So correspondence reaches us, not a closed firm, with a clear fixed-fee plan and a senior lawyer on your file.
How we take over your file.
From the first call to representation, we protect your deadlines at every step.
Free
consultation
We review your matter and tell you exactly what is urgent, with no obligation.
Free
consultation
Start here. In a focused 10-minute call we identify your live deadlines, your bridging visa position and your immediate options. No sales pitch. Just straight answers about where your matter stands after the Gold Migration Lawyers closure.
Deadline
triage
We map every live Department and ART deadline first, so nothing slips while we get up to speed.
Deadline
triage
Deadlines do not wait. We locate every cut-off on your file: ART review dates, Department requests, and bridging visa conditions. The earliest deadline is treated as urgent, because a single missed date can end your review rights.
We take
over your file
We lodge a new Form 956, request your file, and help you regain ImmiAccount access.
We take
over your file
Control, restored. We lodge a fresh Form 956 so correspondence reaches us, not a closed firm, then request your file and your full history. We help you regain access to ImmiAccount and your Department correspondence.
Representation
to a decision
A clear fixed-fee plan, then we carry your matter through, including ART and Federal Court.
Representation
to a decision
Lawyers, not agents. You receive a fixed-fee plan before any work begins, and a senior lawyer on your file from day one. We have run hundreds of ART hearings and Federal Court reviews, and we carry your matter through to a decision.
We let the numbers talk.
Katsaros & Associates is led by principal lawyer Dimitrios Katsaros, admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria and named Employer Sponsored Visa Specialist of the Year in 2017 and 2018. Our lawyers are members of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Migration Institute of Australia.
Successfully won more than 2,000 cases.
Every visa type.
Every complexity level.
Partner, family and employer sponsored visas, ART appeals, Federal Court reviews. If it is an Australian visa matter, we have handled it.
A 98% success rate on partner and family visas.
Strategic preparation.
Predictable results.
Meticulous, evidence-driven applications built to succeed the first time, not patched up after a refusal.
More than 350 five-star reviews from clients.
Trusted by clients across Australia.
Real outcomes, real reviews. Our clients consistently rate us five stars for clarity, care and results.
Your future matters more.
