FIAP

Frontline Immigration Advice Project offers support, advice and training to help your organisation deliver quality legal advice to migrants.

OISC becomes IAA in January 2025

From 16 January 2025, the new name for the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) will be the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA)

3094

People Trained

661

OISC Exams Passed

313

Partner Organisations

86

Partners Registered or Raised Levels

We’re delighted to announce we’ve hit 400 Level 1 OISC exam passes!
Congratulations to all our students.

HOW WE HELP

BECOME A PARTNER

To access some of our programmes, you need to become a FIAP partner.

Join us

ABOUT FIAP

Introduction

FIAP stands for Frontline Immigration Advice Project. FIAP helps organisations provide accurate, good quality advice to vulnerable migrants. Without it they face injustice and destitution.

We train advisers and help organisations to register with Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC), then we continue to support them in their practice.

Who we work with

We work with all not-for-profit frontline organisations, whether you: 

  • Want to register with the OISC
  • Are already OISC registered and want to improve your service or get higher qualifications
  • Are unsure about registering and want to explore whether it is right for you
  • Don’t need to register, but want to understand immigration advice and how to work within its legal boundaries

What we offer

  • Training in immigration law at OISC Levels One and Two. Study support for OISC assessments.
  • Guidance through the OISC registration process
  • Immigration Advisor Handbook - a practical guide on your journey to becoming a confident immigration adisor
  • Ongoing support and Continuous Professional Development to students and organisations enrolled in the FIAP programme
  • Awareness raising sessions to help unregistered organisations work within legal boundaries
  • Needs assessments and advice model development for organisations who are unsure about their requirement to register

Get in touch

If you have a question about our immigration advice services, please email Julie at Refugee Action. We aim to reply within one week.

Email Julie

TESTIMONIALS

'The training environment was so congenial and friendly, the quality of training was marvellous with clarity, brevity and specific to the subject.'
'Thanks for the most recent CoP meeting. I can’t tell you how brilliant it is to be involved in this network!'
'The trainer at FIAP was a great help. As I’m the only OISC trainer in my organisation, it was good to have someone to bounce ideas off.'