Appendix A- information relating to citizenship by grant applications
Total paper applications received between 1 December 2020 and 30 September 2021
Month
Auckland
Christchurch
Manukau
Wellington
Total
December 2020
320 151
90
366
927
January 2021
506 201
161
201
1,069
February 2021
504 187
135
174
1,000
March 2021
593 269
133
220
1,215
April 2021
374 147
61
82
664
May 2021
658 172
96
209
1,135
June 2021
680 192
49
231
1,152
July 2021
409 113
-
86
608
August 2021
530 219
4
283
1,036
September 2021
419 280
-
583
1,282
Total
4,993 1,931
729
2,435
10,088
Total paper Applications Processed between 1 December 2020 and 30 September 2021
Month
Auckland
Christchurch
Manukau
Wellington
Total
December 2020
166 283 184 164
797
January 2021
175 151 301 119
746
February 2021
136 114 285 116
651
March 2021
284 263 190 246
983
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April 2021
135 99 105 110
449
May 2021
307 32 87 265
691
June 2021
235 62 5 186
488
July 2021
210 86 - 173
469
August 2021
290 13 -
104
407
September 2021
1 14 - 31
46
Total
1,939 1,117 1,157 1,514
5,727
Number of LISOs currently working on paper applications in each office
Office
Number of LISOs
Wellington
17
Christchurch
0
Auckland
1
Total
18
Caveats to data
- The month received has been taken by when the paper application was entered into
the citizenship system. Please do note, however, that there is often a delay of days to
weeks between a paper application arriving in an office and it being entered into the
system.
- The office has been determined by the location of the citizenship trained Life and
Identity Services Officer (LISO) who is currently assigned to, or had last modified, an
application. This is usually the office that an application was submitted to, however,
in some instances paper applications are transferred between offices due to varying
workloads.
- The month an application was processed refers to when the processing of an
application was completed, and sent to the Minister for decision. Please note that
applications are not necessarily allocated to a LISO for processing the same month
their processing is completed.
- The Manukau citizenship office closed on 18 June 2021, so any applications sitting
with Manukau LISOs were transferred to the Auckland office.
- September had a very low number of applications sent for decision due to Covid-19
lockdowns.
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- For the staff currently working on paper applications in Wellington, two are LISOs
and the remaining 15 are temporary staff. I note that one of the LISOs is mainly
providing support to the temporary staff.
- Pre-lockdown there were four LISOs in Auckland working fulltime on paper
applications. However, with lockdown restrictions, currently only one of these LISOs
is coming into the office to process these applications.
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