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Migration Agents in Australia - Market Research Report (2015-2030)

Matilda Reilly Matilda Reilly Melbourne, Australia Last Updated: January 2025 ANZSIC OD5178

Revenue

$1.1bn

2025-26

$1.2bn

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$XXX.Xm

Employees

5,150

Businesses

3,888

Wages

$XXX.Xm

Migration Agents in Australia industry analysis

The Migration Agents industry assists people coming to Australia with visa applications and provides related information. Some voluntary organisations and non-profit firms provide visa application services at no charge, while most migration agents work for private companies and charge fees. Migration agents can often operate as lawyers and provide additional services, like legal representation in court if a visa is refused. Although migration agents can advise a client whether a visa application is likely to succeed or not, the Department of Home Affairs makes the actual decision.

Trends and Insights

  • Post-pandemic border reopening led to a historic peak in net migration, driving demand for migration agents through 2022-23. Even so, economic challenges and restrictive policies are now tempering growth and weighing on industry revenue.
  • Working visas have risen as a share of revenue due to a general relaxation of rules. This segment encompasses various visas, including employer-sponsored, general skilled, business skilled, temporary skill shortage, and temporary resident visas.
  • Businesses tend to choose locations that are close to major markets. Areas with higher populations typically have higher migrant numbers.
  • Internal and external industry competition is high and has intensified over the past few years. Migration agents mainly compete on prices charged to applicants and quality of service.

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Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2015-2030)

Industry revenue has declined at a CAGR of 2.9 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $1.1bn in 2025.

Trends and Insights

Climbing migration has somewhat aided industry demand

  • Industry revenue is strongly linked to the total amount of migration. As migration levels change, demand for migration services typically follows. The surge in migration to Australia after lifting border restrictions significantly bolstered demand for migration agents over the two years through 2022-23, with net migration reaching a historic peak of 500 thousand people in 2022-23.
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Migration Agents in Australia
Revenue (2015-2030)
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Industry outlook (2025-2030)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

Steady arrival growth will boost demand for migration services

  • Net migration is on track to expand over the next few years. This uptick is driven by individuals seeking better economic opportunities, quality of life and a stable political environment. As more people pursue residency in Australia, demand for professional assistance with complex visa applications is set to climb, benefiting migration agents.

Biggest companies in the Migration Agents in Australia

Company
Market Share (%)
2025
Revenue ($m)
2025
Aussizz Group
18.1
Migration Guru Pty Ltd
15.8
Visaenvoy
14.7

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Products & Services Segmentation

Migration Agents in Australia
Products & Services
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Student visa applications, Working visa applications and Family visa applications. Student visa applications is the largest segment of the Migration Agents in Australia.

Trends and Insights

A relaxation of rules has lifted demand for working visas

  • Working visas are submitted by foreigners who wish to live in Australia and work at the same time.
  • More insights available in the full report

Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

Industry operators offer services relating to the legal status of individuals, including permanent residency and visa services. These services include submitting visa applications and providing visa advice, and preparing for and representing before a court of review authority matters related to visa applications.

What's included in this industry?

Family visa applicationsWorking visa applicationsStudent visa applicationsVisitor visa applicationsRefugee and humanitarian visa applicationsOther visa applications

Companies

Aussizz GroupMigration Guru Pty LtdVisaenvoy

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Related Terms

SUBCLASS 457 VISANET MIGRATIONREGISTERED MIGRATION AGENT

Industry Code

ANZSIC 2006

ANZSIC 9539 - Migration Agents in Australia

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

Post-pandemic border reopening led to a historic peak in net migration, driving demand for migration agents through 2022-23. Even so, economic challenges and restrictive poli...

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Employees, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Businesses, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Profit, including historical (2015-2025)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

Learn about an industry's products and services, markets and trends in international trade.

Analyst insight

Working visas have risen as a share of revenue due to a general relaxation of rules. This segment encompasses various visas, including employer-sponsored, general skilled, bu...

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2025
  • Product innovation level

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2025
  • Major market segmentation in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

Businesses tend to choose locations that are close to major markets. Areas with higher populations typically have higher migrant numbers.

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each region
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2025

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each region in 2025
  • Number and share of revenue each region accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of wages each region accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of employees in each region in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across Asia Pacific, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

Get data and insights on what's driving competition in an industry and the challenges industry operators and new entrants may face, with analysis built around Porter's Five Forces framework.

Analyst insights

Internal and external industry competition is high and has intensified over the past few years. Migration agents mainly compete on prices charged to applicants and quality of...

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2020-2025
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

There are no major companies currently operating in the Migration Agents industry. Economies of scale are limited, and competition is high. Most enterprises are sole operator...

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2021 through 2025
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2025
  • Overview of Aussizz Group's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of Migration Guru Pty Ltd's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of Visaenvoy's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of revenue, market share and profit margin trend for one additional company

Detailed analysis

  • Description and key data for Aussizz Group, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for Migration Guru Pty Ltd, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for Visaenvoy, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description, key data and performance trends for one additional company

External Environment

Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

Analyst insights

Industry revenue volatility is high due to large fluctuations in demand. Major falls in migration into Australia in response to pandemic-related border closures were detrimen...

In this chapter

  • External Drivers
  • Regulation & Policy
  • Assistance

Key metrics

  • Regulation & policy level and trend
  • Assistance level and trend

Charts

  • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 
  • Assistance historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 

Detailed analysis

  • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
  • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
  • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

Financial Benchmarks

View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

Analyst insights

Tumbling wages have raised profit margins. Wages have been falling while revenue has dropped slowly, pushing up profit margins as a share of revenue.

In this chapter

  • Cost Structure
  • Financial Ratios
  • Key Ratios

Key metrics

  • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
  • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
  • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
  • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

Charts

  • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
  • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
  • Investment vs. share of economy

Data tables

  • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2015-2030)
  • Revenue per Employee (2015-2030)
  • Revenue per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • Employees per Establishment (2015-2030)
  • Employees per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • Average Wage (2015-2030)
  • Wages/Revenue (2015-2030)
  • Establishments per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • IVA/Revenue (2015-2030)
  • Imports/Demand (2015-2030)
  • Exports/Revenue (2015-2030)

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

Key Statistics

Industry Data

Data Tables

Including values and annual change:

  • Revenue (2015-2030)
  • IVA (2015-2030)
  • Establishments (2015-2030)
  • Enterprises (2015-2030)
  • Employment (2015-2030)
  • Exports (2015-2030)
  • Imports (2015-2030)
  • Wages (2015-2030)

Top Questions Answered

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What is the market size of the Migration Agents industry in Australia in 2025?

The market size of the Migration Agents industry in Australia is $1.1bn in 2025.

How many businesses are there in the Migration Agents in Australia industry in 2025?

There are 3,888 businesses in the Migration Agents industry in Australia, which has declined at a CAGR of 7.5 % between 2020 and 2025.

Has the Migration Agents industry in Australia grown or declined over the past 5 years?

The market size of the Migration Agents industry in Australia has been declining at a CAGR of 2.9 % between 2020 and 2025.

What is the forecast growth of the Migration Agents industry in Australia over the next 5 years?

Over the next five years, the Migration Agents industry in Australia is expected to grow.

What are the biggest companies in the Migration Agents market in Australia?

The biggest companies operating in the Migration Agents market in Australia are Aussizz Group, Migration Guru Pty Ltd and Visaenvoy

What does the Migration Agents in Australia include?

Family visa applications and Working visa applications are part of the Migration Agents industry.

Which companies have the highest market share in the Migration Agents in Australia?

The company holding the most market share in Australia is Aussizz Group.

How competitive is the Migration Agents industry in Australia?

The level of competition is high and increasing in the Migration Agents industry in Australia.

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