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Question regarding Parent Residency EOI

A KS made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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From: A KS

Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

My query is regarding the parent residency EOI's which have been in the submitted stage ( which are in the queue since 2015 and till now and not selected for application yet ).

I am aware that since Oct 2019 , INZ has stopped accepting new EOI's and will start accepting from Feb 2020 and as per the Oct 2019 decisions , the tier 1 and tier 2 EOI's will be merged into a single EOI queue.

Therefore could you please provide me the following data

Data 1:-

Number of EOI's submitted by month,year ( preferably in excel format )

Here's the example of the structure of the desired data

Number of EOI' s submitted , Month, Year

120 JUNE , 2016
130 JULY , 2016
.......
150 Aug , 2018
.......................
150 Aug , 2019

Number of EOI' s submitted can be split by Tier 1/Tier 2 ( or total of Tier 1 and Tier 2) either way is fine.

Yours faithfully,

A KS

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From: Ministerial Services
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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Ref: 1920-0995

 

Dear A KS,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 18 December 2019 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

Therefore could you please provide me the following data

 

Data 1:-

 

Number of EOI's submitted by month,year ( preferably in excel format )

 

Here's the example of the structure of the desired data

 

Number of EOI' s submitted   , Month, Year

 

120                                          JUNE , 2016

130                                          JULY  , 2016

.......

150                                          Aug , 2018

.......................

150                                          Aug , 2019

 

Number of EOI' s submitted can be split by Tier 1/Tier 2 ( or total of
Tier 1 and Tier 2) either way is fine.

 

Please note that the days from 25 December 2019 to 15 January 2020
(inclusive) are defined as non- working days in the Act and are not
counted in the calculation for the response due date. This will affect the
time period for responding to your request.

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course. If you have any enquiries regarding
your request feel free to contact us via email [1][MBIE request email] or
using the contact details below.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Level 4, 15 Stout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140

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From: A KS

Dear Ministerial Services,

Thanks for acknowledging the request

I would like to add “ in my request I mentioned about EOI’s submitted , it can be read as “ EOIs accepted by INZ but not selected from the pool yet “

Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: Katy Goodwin
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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Hi A KS

 

Please find attached a letter regarding your OIA.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Katy Goodwin

Business Advisor

Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

NZBN: 9429000106078

[1][email address] | Telephone: +64 48965073

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Hi A KS

 

We have received your request for official information on 18/12/2019.

 

Under the Official Information Act 1982  requests can only be made by;

Any person, being-

(a)   a New Zealand citizen; or

(b)    a permanent resident of New Zealand; or

(c)    a person who is in New Zealand; or

(d)    a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or

(e)   A body corporate which is incorporated outside of new Zealand but
which has a place of business in New Zealand,

may request a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to make
available to him or it any specified official information.

 

From the information you have provided in your request it is unclear that
you are entitled to make an Official Information Act request.

 

Before we can proceed with your request you will need to provide evidence
that you are entitled to make a request.  Any supporting information can
be provided confidentially to me via email.

 

If you have not provided suitable evidence within 3 working days, we will
treat your request as general correspondence and will respond accordingly.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Dongrui Pang

Business Advisor

Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

[1][email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320

[2]www.immigration.govt.nz

 

NZBN 9429000106078

 

 

 

 

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Hi A KS

 

We have received your request for official information on 18/12/2019.

 

Under the Official Information Act 1982  requests can only be made by;

Any person, being-

(a)   a New Zealand citizen; or

(b)    a permanent resident of New Zealand; or

(c)    a person who is in New Zealand; or

(d)    a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or

(e)   A body corporate which is incorporated outside of new Zealand but
which has a place of business in New Zealand,

may request a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to make
available to him or it any specified official information.

 

From the information you have provided in your request it is unclear that
you are entitled to make an Official Information Act request.

 

Before we can proceed with your request you will need to provide evidence
that you are entitled to make a request.  Any supporting information can
be provided confidentially to me via email.

 

If you have not provided suitable evidence within 3 working days, we will
treat your request as general correspondence and will respond accordingly.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Dongrui Pang

Business Advisor

Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

[1][email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320

[2]www.immigration.govt.nz

 

NZBN 9429000106078

 

 

 

 

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From: A KS

Dear Dongrui Pang,

I am not able to see the email address in your signature in the message which you sent.
The FYI site removes the email addresses as per its policy .
Please advise how and where can I send the information which you have asked,

Here is the link to rules of FYI website

https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers#mobiles

Please check section "Do you publish email addresses or mobile phone numbers? #"
To prevent spam, we automatically remove most emails and some mobile numbers from responses to requests.

Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Hi A KS

I've received your message which is a good sign. My email address is [email address]. Could you please reply this email and provide the evidence that I requested in my initial correspondence so I can proceed with your OIA request. If you are unsure you can give me a call at +64 (04) 8965320.

Kind regards

Dongrui Pang
Business Advisor
Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320
www.immigration.govt.nz

NZBN 9429000106078

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From: A KS

Dear Dongrui Pang,

I got your recent mail . In your mail you mentioned your email address which has been removed again by FYI site .
I guess when I’m replying to you the response is going to your inbox or outlook ?? And you are not replying directly from FYI site .

Please click on FYI site link below and you can see that your email address is not visible so
please advice

https://fyi.org.nz/request/11911-questio...

As a workaround you can write your email address without @ sign .

Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Hi again, I'll try again without the @ sign. It's my name Dongrui.Pang, followed by the AT sign, then, mbie DOT govt DOT NZ.
Essentially all I need is evidence of you meeting the criteria under Section 12 OIA. Evidence could include but not limited to copies of your passport, evidence of your address in NZ etc.

Hope this helps

Dongrui Pang
Business Advisor
Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320
www.immigration.govt.nz

NZBN 9429000106078

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From: A KS

Dear Dongrui Pang,

Thanks I got the email address now .
Sure I will email the required evidence to you tonight.

Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: A KS

Dear Katy Goodwin,

Thanks a lot for the letter confirming that request will be answered by FEB28

My request talks about number of EOIs per month and count who meet criteria.

however can you add another column telling number of persons in EOI and how many persons meet new criteria. That would be great if that can be done in the current timelines of this OIA.

However if adding column will lead to further delays then please ignore this request and I’m fine with the data which I originally requested.

Thanks a lot
A ks

Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Hi A KS

Thanks for your email. However to answer your new question we would need to consult with data analysts which would cause further delay in providing the response. Therefore as per your instructions we will continue with your original OIA request without considering your new request on 20 February 2020.

Kind regards

Dongrui Pang
Business Advisor
Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320
www.immigration.govt.nz

NZBN 9429000106078

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Hi A KS

We have a further query regarding your OIA.
In your email you states 'My query is regarding the parent residency EOI's which have been in the submitted stage (which are in the queue since 2015 and till now and not selected for application yet). However you went on asking for 'number of EOIs submitted by month and year'.

Could you please clarify if you are requesting information for EOIs that are still in the queue since 2015, or are you requesting total number of EOIs that were submitted to INZ since 2015 by month and year)?

Please clarify by 12pm Monday 24 February 2020. If we don't hear from you by then we will provide you with information in regards to the EOIs submitted by month and year as this appears to be the information you requested explicitly.

Kind regards

Dongrui Pang
Business Advisor
Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320
www.immigration.govt.nz

NZBN 9429000106078

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From: A KS

Dear Dongrui Pang,

Thanks for your latest email. Sorry if there is any confusion.

I've raised 2 OIA requests and as per the email of Katy Goodwin (Feb 5,2020) MBIE has clubbed both OIA's as a one request.

Hence, I am providing the summary of my requests
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I need the following data

Data1 :- Number of EOI's submitted by month,year ( preferably in excel format )
Data2 :- Number of EOI' s submitted , Month, Year , How many EOI's meet new sponsor income criteria

For both of these datasets (Data 1,2) I want you to only consider those EOI's which were submitted since 2015 and are still in the queue ( not yet selected for application stage ).

To explain eg if there were 20 EOI;s submitted in Jan 2015 and all of them were selected ( which means they are no longer in queue), then in the datasets you should put 0 for Number of EOI's column for Jan 2015.

Similarly eg. for Feb 2015 if there were 30 submitted and 20 were selected for application and 10 still in the queue . Then my datasets should show the count as 20 for Feb 2015.

I don't know , in queue, which month does the oldest EOI belongs to . So I asked the data from 2015.
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In my requests I didn't say TOTAL number of EOIs that were submitted to INZ , I just say Number of EOI's submitted.I didn't mean that I want ALL EOI's to be considered . I just need the EOI's which fulfill criteria (mentioned in the above paragraph).

Sorry for any confusion.

Please let me know in case any further info is required.

I tried to explain the requests in detailed manner in this message.
I'm hoping to get the data for both data sets soon. Thanks for looking into my request.

Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: A KS

Dear Dongrui Pang,

Sorry I found a typo in my latest message. Here's the text after correction. Originally ,I mentioned my datasets should show the count as 20 for Feb 2015 ( as example) .
However count should be 10 not 20 as 10 EOI's are in the queue, Sorry for the typo

Here's the corrected text
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Similarly eg. for Feb 2015 if there were 30 submitted ( 20 were selected for application and 10 still in the queue ). Then my datasets should show the count as 10 for Feb 2015.
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Yours sincerely,

A KS

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From: Dongrui Pang
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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Dear A KS

 

Please find attached the response letter to your request under the
Official Information Act 1982.

 

 

Dongrui Pang

Business Advisor

Operations Support, Border & Visa Operations
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

[1][email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 8965320

[2]www.immigration.govt.nz

 

NZBN 9429000106078

 

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