About us

The agency that tells students no

Nine years, 2,400 students and one rule we have never traded away: we earn the same whichever university you pick, so the advice can stay honest.

Students placed: 2,400+
Destination countries: 16
Visa success rate: 96%
Years doing this: 9

Why we exist

We started because someone lied to a friend of ours

In 2016 a friend paid an agency four lakh taka for a place at a university that had already closed his course. He found out at the airport. Nobody had checked, because nobody was paid to check, they were paid to enrol.

That is the whole problem with how student migration works here. The agency earns when you enrol, not when you succeed, so the incentive points away from telling you the truth. Every shortcut in the industry follows from that one fact.

We built RiZ Migration on the opposite arrangement. We are paid the same whichever university you pick, which means a shortlist can be honest and a no can be a no. It costs us clients every month. It is also the only reason our students trust the yes when it comes.

The hardest thing we do is tell a nineteen year old that this year is not their year. It is also the most useful thing we do.

Rizwan AhmedFounder

The RiZ Migration counselling floor in Dhaka

A counsellor going through documents with a student

2017

Dhanmondi, Dhaka

Four rules

The things we will not trade away for a signature

01
We say no, in the first call
If your profile will not clear the bar this intake, you hear it before you pay anything. A client we turn away today usually comes back next year, ready.
02
The shortlist is not for sale
We are paid the same whichever university you choose. That is the only reason a shortlist can be honest, and it is why ours includes options that earn us nothing.
03
One counsellor, start to boarding pass
The person who reads your transcripts is the person who prepares your visa file. You never explain your situation twice.
04
Every cost, before you commit
Tuition, deposit, visa fee, insurance, our fee. Written down at the start, so nothing appears three months later.

How we got here

Nine years, one room to sixteen countries

2017
Started in one room in Dhanmondi
Two counsellors, a borrowed desk and eleven students in the first intake.
2019
First 100 visas
Mostly the UK and Australia. We also lost our first refusal appeal, and rebuilt the whole financial checklist because of it.
2022
Europe opens up
Germany, Finland and Malta added after two years of visiting campuses and reading fine print nobody else had.
2024
Free tools go live
The visa checker and SOP review, built so students could get an honest read without booking anything first.
2026
16 countries, same rule
Bigger team, same answer when a profile is not ready. That has not changed since the room in Dhanmondi.