Immigration Advisor Handbook
  • 👋Welcome to the handbook
  • SECTIONS
    • ✍️Caseworker Registration
      • 2.1 Who are OISC
      • 2.2 Staff/Volunteer Journey from Level 0-3
      • 2.3 Applying for Registration
      • 2.4 Ethics OISC Code of Standards
      • 2.5 Data Protection
      • 2.6 Boundaries for Caseworkers
      • 2.7 OISC CPD Scheme
    • 💼Case Management
      • 3.1 Key Elements of the Adviser/Client Relationship
      • 3.2 Taking Client Instructions
      • 3.3 Use of Interpreters
      • 3.4 Responding to Enquiries (Email & Phones)
      • 3.5 Case Notes Recording
      • 3.6 Common Documents on an immigration file
      • 3.7 Document Filing
      • 3.8 Certification of Documents / Countersigning
      • 3.9 File Requests
      • 3.10 Drafting
      • 3.11 Drafting Witness Statements
      • 3.12 Safeguarding Guidance / Obligation for Caseworkers
      • 3.13 Working with Vulnerable Clients
    • ⚖️Organisational Compliance
    • 🗃️Templates
    • 📋Glossary
  • 👍Acknowledgements
  • 🗳️Feedback & suggestions
  • ✉️Report a problem
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2.1 Who are OISC

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OISC stands for the Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner.

The OISC usually seeks to promote first and foremost the adviser’s development and progression, nevertheless the OISC is a statutory body, a regulator and an enforcer.

OISC regulates immigration advisers ensuring that advisers are competent, and ensure that advisers act in the client‘s best interest. The Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner was set up under the (GOV.UK). Under this act the (GOV.UK) and the (GOV.UK) it has powers to:

  • Limit or vary levels of work advisers may undertake

  • Lay a disciplinary charge against a regulated adviser

  • Apply for a restraining order or an injunction

  • Prosecute for illegally providing immigration advice and/or services

  • Prosecute for illegally advertising immigration advice and/or services

  • Enter an adviser’s premises

  • Seize an adviser’s records

The OISC does not provide immigration advice or recommend or endorse any specific immigration adviser.

Webpage: (GOV.UK)

Visit the OISC Website to find out more.

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Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
Immigration Act 2014
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner