Ref: 2021-0674

 

Dear Ritz89

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 23nd 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, with the lodgement dates
from   04/03/2019-05/07/2019 Onshore only.

Could also give me the breakup of non priority SMC lodgement month wise
from March 2019 to December 2019.

Also, whats is the number of applications that INZ is allocating each
month ( August, September, October ) 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:
[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

 

 

 

[3]www.govt.nz - your guide to finding and using New Zealand government
services

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Dear Ritz89

 

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 1 October 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 rather 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 onshore
applications that are currently held in the non-priority skilled residence
queue, that were accepted between 04/03/2019 and 05/07/2019 (inclusive of
those dates).

 

In relation to the second point of your request, can you confirm that you
would be satisfied if we provide: The number of non-priority skilled
residence applications accepted by INZ in March 2019 - December 2019,
broken down by calendar month? E.g. the number accepted in March 2019, the
number accepted in April 2019 and so on.  

 

In relation to the third point of your request, please clarify the
timeframe of months you are looking for? You have listed August,
September, October, however assuming you mean 2020, we will not have
allocation data for October yet as it is still September. Please confirm
is this question also in relation to skilled residence applications
(onshore non-priority)?

 

Please note that 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

 

[email address]

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

 

 

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Dear Ritz89

Please see attached the response to your request for information under the Official Information Act.

Kind regards

Anna McLachlan
BUSINESS ADVISOR

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

[email address]
Level 1, 15 Stout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6011

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