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Recent media reports suggest that as of 15 May, 97,179 applications including 194,632 people had been received and 21,364 applications had been approved – with residence visas for 48,327 people issued. The government has pledged that 80 percent of applications will be decided within 12 months. National immigration spokesperson Erica

Border Re-Opening Finalized… And More Finally, we have certainty!  In our 25 March 2022 blog we explained that the Government had announced steps to reopen the border.  We now have a final time table for all of those steps…and others aspects of the “Immigration Rebalance.” We also have more information

New Zealand Borders Reopening – Update! Our last blog on this topic in February 2022 outlined the Government’s initial plan to reopen the New Zealand borders in 5-steps.  That has already started to happen with the opening of the Working Holiday Schemes as of 13th March 2022. Since then, the

2021 Residence Visa Update: March 2022 Changes have been made since our last  blog about this visa in November 2021 and processing of our biggest ever one-off visas category is well under way. It would also be the most “tweaked” category we can remember in a long time! On 30

After months of delays we seem to have finally rounded the corner on a firm timetable for the reopening of the border. There have been a number of travel bubbles with Australia and the Pacific previously but reopening plans have been set back by the Delta and most recently Omicron

The initial introduction of the 2021 Residence Visa in December 2021 was a technical disaster.  Immigration New Zealand  who has had past problems with IT upgrades promised that it could handle large numbers of applicants.  In fact INZ’s website  crashed within hours of  applications for the new visa opening up on Wednesday