Ref: 2021-0498

Dear Abdulla,

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I acknowledge your email of 3 September 2020 requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

I am writing to request the number of applications that are currently held in the non-priority queue under the SMC, which lodgement dates are from 01/02/2019-15/05/2019 Onshore only.
Also, whats is the number of applications that INZ is allocating each month to a CASE OFFICER for the onshore nonpriority applicant only.

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: www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/news/chief-o...) and processed accordingly.

If you have any enquiries regarding your request, or its urgency, feel free to contact us via email at [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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Dear Abdulla Al Momen

 

Eligibility evidence

In order that I can confirm your eligibility  to make a request under the
Official Information Act 1982 (OIA, see section 12), please provide
evidence that you fall into one  of the following categories:

(a) a New Zealand citizen; or

(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or

(c) a person who is in New Zealand;

 

Please provide this information by 9 September 2020. If you do not wish to
provide this evidence via the FYI website, you can email it to me directly
by entering my name into the following email format:
firstname[DOT]lastname@mbie[DOT]govt[DOT]nz

 

Clarification of request

In addition, I am writing to clarify your request. Please note that
Immigration New Zealand does not have a specific Skilled Migrant Category
(SMC) queue but one for skilled residence applications, which includes SMC
and Resident from Work (RFW) applications.

 

In relation to the first point of your request, can you confirm that your
request will be satisfied if we provide: The number of applications that
are currently held in the non-priority skilled residence queue, with
lodgement dates between 1st Feb 2019 to 15th May 2019 (inclusive)?

 

In relation to the second point of your request, can you confirm that you
would be satisfied if we provide: The number of onshore, non-priority
skilled residence applications INZ allocated to Immigration Officers in
the months of July and August 2020?

 

Any clarification or amendment of an OIA request is considered to be a new
request for the purpose of calculating the maximum statutory timeframe for
response in line with section 15(1AA) of the OIA.

 

If you have any questions you can contact me.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Anna McLachlan

BUSINESS ADVISOR

 

Operations Support, Border and Visa Operations Branch

Immigration New Zealand, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

 

[1][email address] | Telephone: +64 (04) 897 5133

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

 

My working hours are Monday, Thursday, and Friday 8:30am to 3:30pm

 

 

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Dear Sir/Madam

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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