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Visa Website Scams are Out There
The NZ High Court has issued an interim injunction against Indian-based Swastik Solution a website designer apparently working with unlicensed Indian immigration advisers and travel agents, selling false visas to NZ. Immigration scams are not only happening in India,...
Visa Officer Fired After Selling Visas Worth $26k
An interesting article recently appeared in the New Zealand Herald on 17 August 2015. Some clever investigatory journalism uncovered the fact that an Immigration New Zealand official who had been based at Auckland International Airport had lost his job after having...
The Month of August
August is here and so is the freezing weather in Auckland. If you're anything like us, your cars will also be covered in frost and your windows will be icy but it's a sign that it's near the end and it's nearly spring. Hopefully we're looking at a fantastic summer...
My Dinner With the Minister
On Monday night last week I hosted a Law Society dinner with the Minister of Immigration as special guest. It was good timing, as a number of issues were ripe for discussion. Front and centre was Hon. Michael Woodhouse's announcement on Saturday of a set of policy...
Is INZ turning people away at the borders?
If there is a trend for Immigration New Zealand to refuse foreign nationals the ability to board planes based on a concern about their intentions, this is not surprising. We were alerted to this risk in a case from 2014 where Immigration New Zealand told someone over...
Comment on the New Immigration Changes
We posted on Facebook yesterday about the changes to Immigration. It's an interesting article from the Herald and it's going to be a talking point for some time. So I've put together my thoughts on the matter and jotted them down below. It's a great spin – looks...