by Simon Laurent, Lawyer | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog |
As we have been reporting recently, the revamped Active Investor Plus Residence Visa has been a hit. Well over 200 applications have been made since the scheme opened on 1 April, representing well over NZ$1 billion in potential capital. Some of that has already landed... 
by Simon Laurent, Lawyer | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog |
I recently returned from the annual conference of the Global Migration Section of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Denver, Colorado. Over a hundred lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions attended and compared notes on what is happening to... by Simon Laurent, Lawyer | May 28, 2025 | Blog |
We are now a few weeks in to the revised Active Investor Plus (“AIP”) Resident Visa programme which was announced with great fanfare in early February. So how is it shaping up? By the Numbers By all accounts, spectacularly well. The scheme opened on 1... by Simon Laurent, Lawyer | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog |
We have seen a lot of new things in the immigration space in the last few years. As 2024 drew to a close I thought (and hoped) that things might quiet down for a while. The opposite is the case. Active Investor Plus Residence We have reported on this in some detail in... by Simon Laurent, Lawyer | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog |
Yesterday, as Chairman of NZAMI, I attended the Prime Minister’s announcement of the overhaul of the Active Investor Residence programme. There is general agreement in the industry that this is a positive move, and it will probably revive what the Minister of...