by Simon Laurent, Lawyer | Nov 5, 2025 | Blog |
People wanting to get New Zealand visas by investment are getting a menu of acronyms at a range of price points: The Active Investor Plus (“AIP”) policy opened in April, requiring input of NZ$5 million or $10 million, depending on your appetite for tisk.... 
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...