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Declined Visa – A Case of Wrong Paperwork

by bmilnes2015 | Mar 23, 2016 | Immigration Visas | 1 comment

An article in the NZ Herald on 14th March 2016 told the story of a New Zealand ballet student who was returned home after completing incorrect paperwork to study at the London Russia Ballet School. ‘Galia Kushnir was due to start at the prestigious London Russian...

Declined Visa for Au Pair – When Visas aren’t Easy

by bmilnes2015 | Mar 16, 2016 | Immigration Problems, Immigration Visas | 0 comments

There was an immigration article in the NZ Herald on Monday which identified the risk of assuming the visa process is simple In the first report, ‘Immigration New Zealand has apologised to the French au pair put in a Queenstown police cell for the night and then...

Bad border bungles disrupt best-laid plans

by Dew James - Staff Solicitor | Feb 10, 2016 | Immigration Problems, Immigration Visas | 0 comments

I have to admit to a guilty pleasure – I love watching airport drama shows like “Border Control NZ”. Perhaps it’s my intellectual interest in seeing the work we do playing out live on the television (or maybe they are just great TV shows; I leave that to you to...

Legal status of foreign sex workers in New Zealand

by Dew James - Staff Solicitor | Jan 20, 2016 | Immigration Industry, Immigration Problems, Immigration Visas | 1 comment

The NZ Herald recently featured an article detailing the increase in foreign sex workers in New Zealand. New Zealand is noted as having some of the most progressive prostitution law regulations in the world. However, this progressivism does not extend to foreign...

Kiwis in Aussie vs Aussies in Aotearoa – What’s the Difference?

by Dew James - Staff Solicitor | Dec 11, 2015 | Citizenship, Immigration Problems, Immigration Visas | 1 comment

There has been no bigger news in Trans-Tasman relations recently than the deportation of New Zealand citizens out of Australia. From the news reports, it appears that many of these Kiwis being deported have not spent any meaningful length of time in New Zealand, some...
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