Book consultYou Don't Need a Cheaper Agent.
You Need One Who'll Tell You the Truth Before You Spend a Dollar on the Wrong Visa.
Book a 20-minute consult with Michelle Barel — a Registered Migration Agent who works out the strategy for your situation, not just the form. You'll leave knowing exactly which pathway is yours, what it costs, and whether it's even worth pursuing. Most people have never had this conversation. It changes everything.
$300, redeemable against your fees if you proceed · Limited consults each week
First, why you're stuck (and it's probably not your fault).
Here's what nobody in this industry says out loud.
Most migration agents make their money lodging applications. So that's what they sell you — a lodgement. You ask "can I stay in Australia?" and they hear "which form can I charge this person for?"
They don't stop to ask the question that actually matters: out of every visa pathway in the system, which one fits your life, your trade, your timing, and your employer?
So you end up paying for the wrong application. Or you wait months on a bridging visa while the clock runs down. Or you get a refusal letter that doesn't explain what went wrong — just that it did. And the agent who took your money? Suddenly hard to reach.
If you've lived any of that, you already know: the problem was never you. The problem was getting advice from someone who skipped straight to the paperwork.
Strategy first, forms second.
At Solve Migration, the consult comes before the paperwork — on purpose.
Michelle doesn't start with "which visa do you want." She starts with where you are right now: your trade, your employer, your history, what's gone wrong before. Then she maps it against every pathway open to you and tells you the one with the best shot — even if it's not the obvious one, and even if it means telling you something you didn't want to hear.
We call it strategy-first migration. It's the opposite of how most firms work, and it's the reason people come to us after another agent let them down.
It works because of three things most firms can't offer:
Everything's done in-house.
Labour market testing, job descriptions, work references, position reports, salary research, occupation selection — the technical work that makes or breaks a sponsored visa, handled under one roof. Not outsourced. Not your problem.
We speak your language — literally.
Across the team, consults in Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Nepalese, Hindi and more. Complex visa decisions are hard enough without translating them in your head.
Fixed fees, low to start.
You'll know the full cost up front. No surprise bills, no meter running every time you call.
Picture the week after your call.
You know which visa you're going for — and why. You know what it costs, start to finish, with no nasty surprises waiting. You know what Michelle needs from you and what she's handling.
The knot in your stomach about "what if I'm doing this wrong" is gone, because for the first time someone showed you the whole board, not just the next square.
That's the entire point of the consult. Not to sell you something. To get you certain.
Meet Michelle.
Michelle understands how much weight you're carrying. A visa isn't paperwork to the person waiting on it — it's your job, your family, your future in this country. She uses her experience to cut through the complexity and give you a clear, practical answer you can actually act on.
- Bachelor of Business, UTS · Graduate Certificate in Immigration Law Practice, ANU
- Specialises in employer-sponsored visas (482 / 186) and skilled migration
- [X years experience · X+ clients helped across Australia]
Don't take our word for it.
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What the consult actually includes.
Here's exactly what you get in your 20 minutes with Michelle:
- A straight answer on which visa pathway fits your situation — not a menu, a recommendation.
- The real, full cost of that pathway, start to finish.
- Whether your employer's sponsorship actually stacks up (and what to fix if it doesn't).
- If you've been refused before — what likely went wrong and whether it's recoverable.
- Your exact next step, written down, so you're not guessing.
The consult is $300. If you go ahead and engage us, that $300 comes straight off your fees — so if you proceed, the advice effectively costs you nothing.
Weigh that against what the wrong visa costs. Months of your life. Thousands in fees for an application that was never going to work. Sometimes the chance to stay at all. $300 to make sure you're on the right path before you commit to any of that isn't an expense. It's the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy.
$300, redeemable against your fees if you proceed
You're risking 20 minutes. We're doing the rest.
We can't promise you a visa — no honest agent can, and you should walk out the door of anyone who does.
What we promise is this: you'll leave the consult with genuine clarity, or it was free. If Michelle can't give you a clearer picture of your options than you walked in with, tell us, and we'll refund the $300. No argument.
Two reasons not to sit on this.
One: Michelle takes a limited number of consults each week, because the strategy work is done properly, not rushed. When the week's full, it's full.
Two — and this is the one that actually costs people: visa timing is unforgiving. Bridging visas expire. Sponsorship windows close. Refusal appeals have hard deadlines measured in days. "I'll deal with it later" is how fixable situations become unfixable ones.
You found this page for a reason. Take the 20 minutes.
$300, redeemable against your feesA real migration agent, not a call centre Spanish / your language available