Ref: 2021-0147

 

Dear Satish,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 17 July 2020 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

Could you please help me to understand the number of applications
remaining in the queue from 19th Dec to 31st Dec 2018.

 

Also, I would like to understand how many applications were lodged during
the Christmas break (from 19th Dec 2018 to Jan 2019 as well), each day
break up like on 2nd Jan 150, 3rd Jan 100 Applications and so on.

 

I understand many people who had lodged applications in mid-2019 from
Non-Priority Queue have got CO's assigned (would understand it might be
because of the Escalation or had met the priority queue), so why there is
inconstancy in the application allocation? and is there any queue within
Non Priority queue like people who are in LTSSL. Please confirm

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course.

 

Please note, due to ongoing COVID-19 response work, requests are currently
being triaged and those relating to Covid-19 processed as a priority.
Remaining requests are being assessed as per the Ombudsman’s guidance
(which can be found here:
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/news/chief-ombudsmans-statement-official-information-response-times-during-covid-19-emergency)
and processed accordingly.

 

If you have any enquiries regarding your request, or its urgency, feel
free to contact us via email at [2][MBIE request email].

 

Nâku noa, nâ

MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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

NZBN 9429000106078

 

 

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Greetings Satish

We have received your official information request.

To make a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA, you must be:

* a New Zealand citizen; or
* a permanent resident of New Zealand; or
* a person who is in New Zealand; or
* a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or
* a body corporate which is incorporated outside New Zealand but which has a place of business in New Zealand

Before I proceed with your request, can you send through confirmation that you are eligible to make an OIA request based on the above?

Please have this information send to me by the 23 July 2020.

Kind Regards

Ileini Taloa
Business Advisor

Border and Visa Operations Branch, Immigration New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address]
Level 1, 15 Sout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6011

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Hi Satish

I have now received your details.

I will proceed with your request.

I will let you know if anything further is required.

Regards
Ileini

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Greetings Satish

I have received confirmation that you are eligible to make a request under the OIA act.

Before I proceed with your request, are you able to clarify part one of your request?

You have requested for the following:

- Could you please help me to understand the number of applications remaining in the queue from 19th Dec to 31st Dec 2018.

Is it sufficient to give you the overall number of applications that are currently in the queue?

Or do you want me to provide you with the number of applications that was lodged after the 19th December 2018 that are currently in the queue?

Please provide clarification by COB 31 July 2020.

Regards

Ileini

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Greetings Satish

Your initial request are as follows:

- Could you please help me to understand the number of applications remaining in the queue from 19th Dec to 31st Dec 2018.

- Also, I would like to understand how many applications were lodged during the Christmas break (from 19th Dec 2018 to Jan 2019 as well), each day break up like on 2nd Jan 150, 3rd Jan 100 Applications and so on.

- I understand many people who had lodged applications in mid-2019 from Non-Priority Queue have got CO's assigned (would understand it might be because of the Escalation or had met the priority queue), so why there is inconstancy in the application allocation? and is there any queue within Non Priority queue like people who are in LTSSL. Please confirm

As you have changed your request entirely to the below request, this will need to be logged as a new request.

Please confirm if you wish to withdraw your initial request.

If you can let me know by COB 31 July 2020, that would be great.

Kind Regards

Ileini

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Ref: 2021-0252

 

Dear Satish,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 30 July 2020 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

1. No. of application remaining in Dec 2018 to Jan 1st week Queue,
datewise (for an example on 18th Dec there were 500 applications lodged
and 200 are already assigned to CO now), and 19th Dec count vs assigned,
20th Dec Lodgements count vs assigned to CO, 21st Dec Lodgements and so on
up to 1st week of Jan/or until the staff returned from Christmas break (in
short each day's lodgement count and how many are already assigned to CO).

 

2. How many applications were accepted by INZ right from Jan 2019 to Aug
2019 (each month Break up)?.

 

3. How many applications are offshore based which were lodged from Jan
2019 to Aug 2019 (each month break up)?.

 

4. How many applications INZ has assigned to CO after Lockdown (Priority
vs Nonpriority queue). for example 200 applications assigned in the first
week of Aug and 150 from priority and 50 from Non Priority.

 

5. The number of Priority queue applications pending in the queue which
are waiting to be assigned to CO.

 

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course.

 

Please note, due to ongoing COVID-19 response work, requests are currently
being triaged and those relating to Covid-19 processed as a priority.
Remaining requests are being assessed as per the Ombudsman’s guidance
(which can be found here:
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/news/chief-ombudsmans-statement-official-information-response-times-during-covid-19-emergency)
and processed accordingly.

 

If you have any enquiries regarding your request, or its urgency, feel
free to contact us via email at [2][MBIE request email].

 

Nâku noa, nâ

MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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

NZBN 9429000106078

 

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Greetings Satish

 

Before I proceed with your information request, are you able to clarify
the following parts of your request? I have reword then as how we would
interpret your request which are highlighted in yellow below.

 

1. No. of application remaining in Dec 2018 to Jan 1st week Queue,
datewise (for an example on 18th Dec there were 500 applications lodged
and 200 are already assigned to CO now), and 19th Dec count vs assigned,
20th Dec Lodgements count vs assigned to CO, 21st Dec Lodgements and so on
up to 1st week of Jan/or until the staff returned from Christmas break (in
short each day's lodgement count and how many are already assigned to CO).

 

·          For the period 06 December 2018 to 06 January 2019 the number
of applications accepted for processing per day/date, broken down into
allocated/unallocated

 

2. How many applications were accepted by INZ right from Jan 2019 to Aug
2019 (each month Break up)?.

 

·        How many applications accepted by INZ from the 7^th Jan 2019 – 8
 August 2019?

 

3. How many applications are offshore based which were lodged from Jan
2019 to Aug 2019 (each month break up)?.

 

·        For the period of 6 December 2018 to 06 January 2019 how many
applications are offshore based broken down by month?

 

4. How many applications INZ has assigned to CO after Lockdown (Priority
vs Nonpriority queue). for example 200 applications assigned in the first
week of Aug and 150 from priority and 50 from Non Priority.

 

5. The number of Priority queue applications pending in the queue which
are waiting to be assigned to CO.

 

I am happy with the last two questions.

 

Please get back to  me by COB on Monday 10^Th August 2020 confirming
whether or not I have interpret your request correctly.

 

Regards

 

 

Ileini Taloa

Business Advisor

 

Border and Visa Operations Branch, Immigration New Zealand

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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Level 1, 15 Sout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6011

 

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Hi Satish

Thank you for your prompt response.

Note that the first part of your request you have used lodgement date but then you have used accepted date for the remaining parts of your request, for consistency I will change the first part of your request to accepted date if that’s ok ?

The lodgement date is the date we acknowledge we received the application. The acceptance date is when we acknowledge that it meets lodgement criteria and has been accepted for processing. The main difference between these dates is that our allocation process uses the acceptance date to allocate in date order.

So the first part of your request will be:

1. No. of application remaining in Dec 2018 (starting from 18th Dec to Jan first week), date wise (for an example on 18th Dec there were 500 applications accepted by INZ and 200 are already assigned to CO now), and 19th Dec count vs assigned, 20th Dec applications accepted for processing vs assigned to CO, 21st Dec applications accepted and so on up to 1st week of Jan/or until the staff returned from Christmas break (in short application accepted by INZ each day and how many are already assigned to CO).

Thanks

Ileini

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Thank you.

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I am currently on leave until the 26th August 2020. For any urgent matters
please email [email address] otherwise i will respond upon my
return.

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Greetings Satish

Please be advised that due date for our response to your official information request has been extended to the 25 September 2020. Please refer attached letter for further information.

Regards

Ileini

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Greetings Satish

Thank you for your email.

Just to confirm, are you referring to the following questions?

1. How many applications were accepted by INZ right from 7th Jan 2019 to 31st Aug 2019 (each month Break up)?
2. For the period of 7th Jan 2019 to 31st Aug 2019 how many applications are offshore based broken down by month?

You are now only after part 1 of the request?

In summary your request now is as follows:

1) How many applications were accepted by INZ right from 7th Jan 2019 to 31st Aug 2019 (each month Break up)?
2) Of these how many applications have been finalised?

Please confirm.

Regards

Ileini

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Hi Satish

Thank you for your email.

I will let you know if I have any further questions.

Regards

Ileini

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Greetings Satish

Thank you for your email received.

We are working actively to get you a response before the due date.

Kind Regards

Ileini

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Greetings Satish

Please find response to your official information request attached.

Kind Regards

Ileini Taloa
Business Advisor

Border and Visa Operations Branch, Immigration New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address]
Level 1, 15 Sout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6011

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Hi Satish

Thank you for your email received.

Your request are as follows:

1) How many applications were accepted by INZ right from 7th Jan 2019 to 31st Aug 2019 (each month Break up)?
2) Of these how many applications have been finalized (each month break up, Accepted vs Finalized, for example, 100 accepted, 80 finalized in Jan (till Aug) so 20 remaining and so on?
3) how many application from 7th Jan 2019 to 31st Aug 2019 (each month Break up) that are accepted by INZ are offshore applications

The information you have requested below appears to be new information from what was requested initially. As such, your request for the below information will be logged as a new OIA request. This OIA request will be logged as follows:

- How many undecided applications are there in the Non Priority queue from Jan 2019 to Aug 2020 that is onshore.

We will get to your on a due date for the below information.

Kind Regards

Ileini

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Hi Satish

Thank you for your email.

Your request for information has been logged as a new OIA request.

Kind Regards

Ileini

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Ref: 2021-0698

 

Dear Satish,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 25^th Septmeber 2020 requesting under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

              

“Month's break up for "- How many undecided applications are there in the
Non Priority queue from Jan 2019 to Aug 2020 that is onshore."

 

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course.

 

Please note, due to ongoing COVID-19 response work, requests are currently
being triaged and those relating to Covid-19 processed as a priority.
Remaining requests are being assessed as per the Ombudsman’s guidance
(which can be found here:
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/news/chief-ombudsmans-statement-official-information-response-times-during-covid-19-emergency)
and processed accordingly.

 

If you have any enquiries regarding your request, or its urgency, feel
free to contact us via email at [2][MBIE request email].

 

Nâku noa, nâ

MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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

NZBN 9429000106078

 

 

 

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Hi Satish,

I am unable at this stage to advise when we will respond to your request. However, we will respond as soon as possible.

If we need longer than the statutory 20 working days to process your request, we will advise you of this on or before the 20th working day.

For context, we have received a large number of similar requests, which means that each request will take longer than usual to complete.

Regards,
Fraser

Fraser Stretton
SENIOR BUSINESS ADVISOR

Operations Support – Border & Visa Operations, Immigration New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

[email address] | +64 4 896 5316
15 Stout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand

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Dear Satish

 

Please find attached the response to your request.

 

Regards

 

Penny Hazlett

SENIOR BUSINESS ADVISOR, OPERATIONS SUPPORT

Border & Visa Operations, Immigration New Zealand

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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