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What you need to know about NZ Investor Visas and Citizenship

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Nov 24, 2011 | Business, Citizenship, Immigration Visas | 3 comments

Today a client asked some questions which showed that even if you invest millions of dollars to get New Zealand Residence as an Investor, this does not mean it will be easy to get Citizenship later on.  The problem has to do with time spent living in the country. The...

LTBV Residence – How Long is Long Enough?

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Nov 17, 2011 | Business, Immigration Appeals, Immigration Problems, Immigration Visas | 1 comment

Not many Court decisions have been made about Entrepreneur visas.  The recent High Court decision of Tong v Chief Executive, Department of Labour.is therefore of some interest. Under his Long Term Bsuiness Visa (LTBV) Mr Tong set up a company with him and his wife as...

Visa Medicals and the Martyn Payne story

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Apr 26, 2011 | Immigration Visas | 2 comments

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

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Mar 28, 2011 | Immigration Visas | 0 comments

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...
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