Mallika has completed the Graduate Certificate in Immigration Advice (2014) from the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic now known as Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Mallika is a Bachelor of Arts Economics Honours graduate from Delhi University, India and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur India.

Mallika has worked with Immigration New Zealand for 10 years. In the 10 years of employment with Immigration, Mallika processed all types of temporary visas – work, student, visitor, partnership, dependent children, S61 and Skilled Migrant category residence applications.

Mallika has worked as a licensed Immigration Advisor for the last 8 years and 1 year as a Case Officer with Work and Income.

From February 2017 to February 2020, Mallika worked with a law firm as an Immigration Advisor. At the law firm, as a senior member of the Immigration Team Mallika has represented clients for S61, work visa, visitor visa, student visa, partnership and residence applications. She has also lodged Ministerial Interventions for relief when all other avenues have been exhausted by an applicant. She also worked on appeals to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal.

Mallika has recently worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Auckland for 10 months as the in-house Immigration Advisor and managed Immigration matters for internal PwC employees.

Mallika is fluent in Hindi and English and limited Punjabi language.