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Immigration Consultants – Weeding Out the Bad Eggs
The last few months have seen several cases where immigration advisers have been punished for poor service to clients. The latest was the case of Wei Wang at Sea Consultants. The Tribunal which considers such complaints reported overcharging and "systematic...
New Zealand Needs Workers!
There are two key features which are significant for the Work Visa market. The first is that the flood of Kiwis heading to live in Australia has continued apace this year and shows no signs of slowing down. Although New Zealand has a target to accept 45 - 50,000...
Deportation is in Fashion
In the last few weeks we've seen an upswing in the number of people coming to us after they have been served with Deportation papers. Others in the industry have reported the same trend. It's clear that Immigration is finally starting to use its new compliance tools...
Offshore Visas and Potentially Prejudicial Information
Last week Immigration announced a major change to how it handles offshore temporary visa applications. (Note, this does not apply to people applying while in NZ, and does not affect Residence applications). Previously, if INZ identified any possibly negative issues...
Visa Medicals and the Martyn Payne story
Just saw the news report on Martyn Payne from the UK who was deported on Easter Saturday because of his heart condition. He set up a garage in a small Northland town under a Long Term Business Visa (LTBV) 6 years ago. The business served the community well. But when...
How NZ Business Migration is (not) working
In July 2009 the Government introduced new Investor policies to encourage wealthy offshore migrants to settle here: Invetor 1: anyone able to invest over NZ$10 million for 3 years can obtain Residence almost outright; Investor 2: those able to invest NZ$1.5 million...