Our Team

Joey Barnard is the founder and principle member, and is a MARA registered migration professional. She holds several degrees, including a Master in Migration Law & Practice. She is passionate about her work as migration agent and specialises in complex cases, including waivers, partner, parent, child, and skilled visas. Her interest in psychology and business compliments her work as migration agent. Joey mentors final semester migration law students, supervises work placements, is the founder of the successful Facebook forum South Africans migrating to Australia (SAMTA) and a support network for migration professionals (with almost 3000 Mara registered agents / migration professionals). Joey was key to bringing a very fragmented profession together with her innovative idea of migration professionals collaborating and supporting one another, an idea unheard of in a highly competitive industry. These forums are changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants. Apart from her passion for migration law, she also climbs mountains, with Kilimanjaro being ‘her’ mountain. She has climbed Kili 4 times, and plans 3 back-2-back climbs in 2024. Her breath of life is her grandchild. A visionary with a deep faith.

Lesley Eckard has a physiotherapy background and immigrated from Zimbabwe in 2004. Lesley is Perth based, a MARA registered agent as well as a NZ registered agent.

As an immigrant herself, Robyn personally understands the frustrations, anxiety and the complex process of migrating to Australia. Robyn enjoys working with people from different cultures and practising as a Registered Migration Agent is the result of a natural merging of her legal skills and experience as a migrant.

Robyn specialises in family visas such as partner, child and parent visas. She also works with student, visitor and resident return visas.  Robyn enjoys problem solving and researching and is dedicated to finding solutions for her clients.