Acacia Staff Profiles

Mark Webster, CEO

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Mark Webster is the Founder and CEO of Acacia Immigration Australia. He has a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Science (Hons, University Medal majoring in Pure Mathematics) also from the same university.

Mark has been a Registered Migration Agent since 1999, and a member of the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) since 2001. He is the immediate past NSW/ACT MIA President.

Mark frequently presents seminars on Australian Immigration Law for IARC, the MIA and for Acacia Immigration. He has also presented for the University of NSW, and worked on the General Skilled Migration topic for the MIA's migration agent entry course. He was a major author of the MIA submission to the Joint Senate Committee on Migration on skills assessment.

A recognised expert in the field, Mr. Webster has been quoted in print numerous times, including in Phillipe Legrain's 2007 book, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them(Princeton University Press).

Mark wrote the chapters on General Skilled Migration and Temporary Workers for the current edition of the Immigration Kit (Federation Press), which is the definitive Immigration Law textbook used by migration agents.

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Natalya Khodan, Associate

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Natalya is a Registered Migration Agent and a member of the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) since 2008. She has completed a Graduate Certificate in Migration Law and Practice from Australian National University in Canberra in 2007. She also has a Bachelor of International Business from the Ukrainian Government University.

Natalya assists businesses to sponsor workers from overseas, as well as helping individuals to migration to Australia in the General Skilled, Partner, and family sponsored categories.

Her specialities include but not limited to:

• Temporary Business Sponsorship (457 visas)
• Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS)
• Regional Sponsored Skilled Migration Scheme (RSMS)
• Business Migration to Australia
• General Skilled Migration (GSM)
• Family Migration
• Partner Migration

Natalya understands that the migration process can be very complicated if not stressful as she migrated to Australia from the Ukraine in 2001. This helps her to understand her client better than anyone else. She is also fluent in Russian and Ukrainian languages.

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Aki Takahata, Registered Migration Agent

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Aki Takahata completed his law degrees both at Kyushu University in Japan and the University of New South Wales in Australia. After admission to the Supreme Court of New South Wales as a legal practitioner he practiced as a commercial lawyer at several Sydney CBD law firms before moving to the area of immigration law. Aki has experience in all visa areas including Employer nomination, Business Temporary, Spouse and Parents visas with a special focus on General Skilled Migration.

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