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Immigration issues for the super-rich – private jet owners
An interesting article recently appeared on news website Stuff, describing the situation of luxury private jet-owners wanting to travel with their crew and passengers in and out of New Zealand. The article describes that the private jet market to New Zealand has been...
Human Trafficking and The Iceberg
The media has in the last week made much of the first human trafficking convictions in NZ. The article quotes well known immigration lawyer Richard Small as stating that the case is just ‘the tip of the iceberg’. In another article, the headline reads The dark...
South Africans – Get Back in Line
The NZ Government has just announced that South Africa is about to lose its visa-waiver status. From 21 November 2016, all South Africans must apply for a visa before visiting New Zealand. The privilege of being able to just walk on to a 'plane from Joburg to...
Health Care Presentation 2016
In July, I wrote about the Case of the Health Care Assistant. After an unnecessarily complex and expensive process by INZ which was eventually sorted out after a formal complaint, I’m delighted to confirm that our client has been granted her work visa. Unfortunately,...
Auckland Airport: Future International Airline Hub
One of the more obscure Visa categories is the Transit Visa. This is a Visa required by people who are “transit passengers” and are intending to travel to and be in New Zealand only as a “transit passenger”. A “transit passenger” is defined in immigration instructions...
My Dinner with the Minister – 2016 Edition
On Monday evening the Minister of Immigration spoke at a dinner hosted by the Immigration & Refugee Committee of the Auckland District Law Society (Inc.). Here are a couple of things that he talked about. It is also interesting to compare what follows with my...