Here’s the problem most aspiring advisers discover too late
You can complete an immigration course. Study for the IAA assessment. Pass the assessment. And still find yourself asking one question:
“Where do I get the supervised practical experience?”
Finding meaningful supervised casework with an experienced regulated adviser can be one of the hardest parts of the pathway.
MIAA was built to close that gap.
Don’t just prepare to pass. Prepare to practise.
MIAA is not another online immigration course. It is a structured professional pathway built around three stages.
Build the immigration knowledge and professional foundation you need, delivered the way a practitioner needs to receive it rather than the way an academic course teaches it.
Four months inside a working regulated immigration practice. Real clients, real files, real consultations, under the direct supervision of an IAA Level 3 registered adviser with 18 years of active practice. Your experience is documented through the programme’s supervision records.
Targeted preparation for the IAA Level 1 competence assessment through practice questions, mock assessments and feedback.
You don’t finish a course and start wondering what to do next. You progress through a pathway designed around what comes next.
This is why MIAA is different
Most immigration training programmes teach you immigration law. Some prepare you for an examination. After the training ends, you are left to work out the practical side yourself:
MIAA brings the supervised practical element inside the programme. For four months you will have structured exposure to a working regulated immigration practice led by an IAA Level 3 adviser with 18 years of professional experience.
All supervised work is carried out within MichelleBelle’s regulatory and confidentiality framework. Client consent and confidentiality controls apply throughout.
You are not simply learning what immigration advisers do. You are experiencing what it is like to do the work under supervision.
Structured UK immigration training
Build your foundation through structured learning covering the areas relevant to your IAA Level 1 pathway. You will have access to pre-recorded training, live teaching sessions, programme guides, practical resources, checklists and templates, structured learning activities, the MIAA learning platform and support from the MIAA team.
By the end of Phase 1 you will have a structured understanding of the immigration framework you need in order to progress into supervised practice and examination preparation.
“Without the MIAA targeted training, I wasn’t retaining information very well, nor truly understanding different immigration problems and how best to advise on them on my own.”
Four months of supervised casework
This is where knowledge becomes professional capability.
Phase 2 takes you beyond hypothetical scenarios and into the workings of a busy regulated immigration practice. You will gain exposure to relevant live casework and the practical processes surrounding immigration advice, under the supervision of an experienced regulated adviser.
This is an opportunity to see how professional immigration work happens in real time: from client consultations and file management through to research, analysis, advice and decision-making. You will receive ongoing guidance and feedback alongside regular weekly review sessions.
The goal isn’t to make you an expert overnight. It is to give you something a textbook cannot: repeated exposure to how immigration advice is delivered in practice. That matters whether your next step is building your own practice, joining an immigration-focused organisation, or developing your career within the sector.
There is a regulatory reason this phase exists. The IAA expects Level 1 applicants to show relevant advice-giving experience alongside their training, and that is the requirement most people have no way of meeting after a short course. Supervised casework is how you build it, and your time with us is documented through the programme’s supervision records. How that evidence is assessed remains a matter for the IAA.
“Leading on some cases under supervision and receiving approvals from the Home Office made me feel more confident in my knowledge and understanding of immigration and advisory work. I felt prepared and confident when approaching matters, and I was able to handle tasks by myself before receiving feedback from Peju and the team.”
“It gave me hands-on experience with real cases, client interactions, and professional supervision, helping me develop practical skills and confidence that I could not have gained through self-study alone.”
IAA Level 1 examination preparation
Passing the IAA assessment requires more than reading the Immigration Rules. Your preparation includes targeted revision, scenario-based questions, practice assessments, timed mock examinations, marking and feedback, identification of knowledge gaps, examination technique, and the practical application of the rules.
The aim is to move you from “I have studied this” to “I understand how to apply this”.
“In every case, she shares her experienced professional opinion and clearly explains the correct approach to handling matters effectively. She consistently puts in great effort to help develop and enhance professional skills and working standards.”
Three routes to IAA Level 1
There is more than one way to prepare for IAA registration. This is how the Academy differs from the alternatives, so you can decide which fits what you are trying to build.
Short courses prepare you for the assessment. This prepares you for practice.
Short training courses are run by experienced practitioners and do that job well. The Academy is a different kind of programme, not a better version of the same one.
With MIAA, you don’t do it alone
Your programme doesn’t exist only inside a course portal. You become part of the MIAA Network, a professional community of aspiring and developing immigration advisers, with access to the MIAA learning environment, programme resources and guides, templates and checklists, supervision documentation, community support, MIAA team presence and ongoing programme communication.
The network does not end when the programme does. Participants stay part of the community afterwards, able to reach us and each other as colleagues. Nobody who joins MIAA is left to work it out alone.
MIAA investment: £9,500 + VAT
You are not paying £9,500 for an immigration course. You are investing in a structured pathway that brings together the learning, the supervised practical exposure and the examination preparation you would otherwise have to source and coordinate separately. The applicable IAA registration and examination fee of £733 is included.
Balance spread across five months.
Becoming regulated isn’t the end goal. Having the confidence and capability to use it is.
Every candidate who has completed this pathway and sat the assessment has gone on to work in regulated immigration practice. Some are in employment, some in a practice of their own.
Regulated advisers work across private client matters, employer and sponsor services and compliance support. What you charge, and what you earn, depends on your market, your service offering and how you build your practice. What the Academy gives you is professional capability that can be used well beyond the programme itself.
And you stay connected. MIAA participants remain part of the network after the programme ends, with continued access to the community and to us as colleagues. You are not on your own once the pathway is complete.
“The training experience was good and helped me achieve my goal.”
Who is MIAA for?
MIAA is designed for professionals who are serious about building a career in regulated UK immigration advice.
You don’t have to start from zero. MIAA is designed to help you build on the experience and professional strengths you already have.
That is not just encouragement. The IAA looks at your training and your relevant experience together, and for many participants existing work in a legal, compliance, HR, operational or advice-giving environment forms part of that picture alongside the supervised casework built here.
Why join MIAA?
18 years of professional experience
MIAA is led by MichelleBelle Limited, trading as MichelleBelle Immigration & Compliance Solutions, an established UK immigration advisory practice under an IAA Level 3 adviser with 18 years of professional experience. You are learning within an environment where immigration advice isn’t theoretical. It is the work being done every day.
Practical exposure, not just theory
You don’t spend the entire programme behind a screen reading immigration materials. Phase 2 puts you closer to the actual work: cases, clients, files, consultations, decisions, feedback.
A pathway, not a standalone course
Training, supervised casework and examination preparation, all connected within one programme.
Built for professionals
Whether you are coming from law, HR, compliance, paralegal work or another relevant background, your existing experience becomes part of your advantage.
From those we have trained
Everyone below completed this pathway before it carried the Academy name, or as part of the first Academy cohort. The structure, the supervision and the standard are the same.
“I have now passed my IAA Level 1, which has significantly reaffirmed my confidence in myself that I understand the immigration field.”
“The training and supervision I received was particularly insightful because it provided a level of practical guidance and feedback that I would not have been able to gain through self-study alone.”
Your MIAA journey
Build the foundation
Structured immigration training, live sessions and learning resources.
Build practical capability
Supervised casework within a working regulated immigration practice.
Prepare for the assessment
Targeted IAA Level 1 examination preparation, practice and feedback.
Progress towards regulated practice
Use the foundation, practical experience and preparation you have built to take your next professional step.
Peju Ojemuyiwa
Peju Ojemuyiwa is the founder of MichelleBelle Limited, trading as MichelleBelle Immigration & Compliance Solutions, the UK-based immigration advisory and global mobility consultancy behind the Academy. She has been a regulated immigration adviser since 2008 and is authorised at IAA Level 3, the highest level of authorisation. For 18 years she has worked across UK immigration advisory, sponsor licence matters, corporate compliance and global mobility.
She has been an IAA trainer and supervisor since 2010. In that time she has supervised trainees through to successful registration at IAA Level 1, and supported advisers who wanted to go further and build a practice of their own. That supervisory work, carried out alongside live client matters rather than separately from them, is what the Academy is built around.
Her day-to-day practice spans employers holding sponsor licences, founders and high-growth companies, and private clients navigating the immigration system. Participants learn inside that working environment, which is why the supervised phase reflects how advice is actually given rather than how it is described in a textbook.
Only 6 places per cohort
MIAA is intentionally limited to a small cohort so that participants receive meaningful access to supervised casework, professional guidance and support.
Before you start the application
The application takes about 10 to 15 minutes. You will need your LinkedIn profile URL if you have one, and you will be asked to sign and date the form electronically.
Please apply only when you are ready to proceed. Places are limited to six, so if your application is successful you will be asked to pay a £2,000 deposit within 48 hours to secure your place. Your statutory right to cancel is unaffected by that deadline.
Your questions, answered
Ready to take the next step?
You don’t need to figure out the entire pathway alone. You don’t need to finish another course and then start searching for supervised experience. And you don’t need to approach the IAA assessment hoping that reading enough will be enough.
MIAA brings the pathway together. Learn. Practise. Prepare. Progress.
Register your interest
The application takes about 10 to 15 minutes. You will need your LinkedIn profile URL if you have one, and you will be asked to sign and date the form electronically.
Your statutory right to cancel is unaffected by that deadline.
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