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Kia ora,

On behalf of the Minister of Immigration, Hon Michael Wood, I acknowledge receipt of your email below.

I note you have requested information from the Minister regarding future policy decisions, including your own suggestions for such decisions. In the circumstances, it appears likely that if considered a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), your request would be refused under section 18(e) of the Act, as the the document alleged to contain the information requested does not exist, or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found.

I have decided to consider your request as ministerial correspondence, which will be put to Minister Wood for a response. Please note that responses to ministerial correspondence are currently taking a minimum of three months. However this will allow the Minister to respond to your queries regarding future policy decisions.

If there is any objection to the above approach, please write back to this office within a reasonable time period, to allow this office to consider whether your request can be answered under the provisions of the Act.

Kind regards,

Ethan Herbert | Private Secretary (Immigration) | Office of Hon Michael Wood
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Transport | Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
Minister for Auckland | Associate Minister of Finance
Executive Wing | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

-----Original Message-----
From: A SHARMA [mailto:[FOI #22704 email]]
Sent: Saturday, 6 May 2023 9:41 PM
To: Hon Michael Wood <[Michael Wood request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Question about Parent visa

Hon. Michael Wood,

My OIA is regarding parent residence category.

Thanks for opening this visa category in 2022. Many people had been waiting for it to reopen since 2016. Thanks for fulfilling the promise in Labour’s 2020 manifesto.

Although the category was reopened in 2022 , the backlog of the EOIs submitted before 2022 will be cleared till 2025 which is a long wait for people who have been waiting since long. Also the limit of 2000 visas per year from queued quota is limiting chances of others who are in ballot because only 500 places are there in ballot till existing queued pool is not finished.

Your government is doing fast processing of RV2021 and SMC , is your govt considering any option of clearing the parent EOI queued pool in 2023 (only 6000 are left from existing queue ) ?
If not , can a faster processing be considered because current policy is still leading to long wait times and creating another backlog for ballot applicants till queued pool is cleared.. If the existing queue is cleared in 2023 then all 2500 places are available for ballot from later this year and people who have been waiting since 2016 will not have to wait till 2025.

Also, is there any other change being considered to this visa or related ?

Thanks again for opening this visa category and reuniting families with their parents.

Yours faithfully,

A SHARMA

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Kia ora,

On behalf of Hon. Michael Wood, thank you for your email.  

 

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Where the Minister has portfolio responsibility for the issues that you
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appropriate.  If your email falls outside of these responsibilities, it
may transferred to another office for consideration.

 

If your email is regarding the Mt. Roskill electorate, please email
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Regards

 

Office of Hon Michael Wood

Minister of Immigration | Minister of Transport | Minister for Workplace
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Private Bag 18041 |Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

Office phone: +64 4 817 8731 | Email: [2][email address]

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Kia ora,

I am happy to put your correspondence to Minister Wood for a response. As noted previously, responses to ministerial correspondence are currently taking a minimum of three months, however please be assured a response will be forthcoming in due course.

Kind regards,

Ethan Herbert | Private Secretary (Immigration) | Office of Hon Michael Wood
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Transport | Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
Minister for Auckland | Associate Minister of Finance
Executive Wing | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

-----Original Message-----
From: A SHARMA [mailto:[FOI #22704 email]]
Sent: Friday, 12 May 2023 4:19 PM
To: M Wood (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Question about Parent visa

Dear M Wood (MIN),

Dear Ethan

Thanks for your response.

I understand my query contains suggestions as well.
If there is no official document about the similar issue that can be shared , then , surely you can consider this for a ministerial correspondence.

I can understand there can be wait times. It will be great if there is a possibility of an early response from the Hon. Minister or his attention can be drawn as this issue is related to a large number of people who have been waiting since 2016.
Thanks a lot.

Yours sincerely,

A SHARMA

-----Original Message-----

Kia ora,

On behalf of the Minister of Immigration, Hon Michael Wood, I acknowledge receipt of your email below.

I note you have requested information from the Minister regarding future policy decisions, including your own suggestions for such decisions. In the circumstances, it appears likely that if considered a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), your request would be refused under section 18(e) of the Act, as the the document alleged to contain the information requested does not exist, or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found.

I have decided to consider your request as ministerial correspondence, which will be put to Minister Wood for a response. Please note that responses to ministerial correspondence are currently taking a minimum of three months. However this will allow the Minister to respond to your queries regarding future policy decisions.

If there is any objection to the above approach, please write back to this office within a reasonable time period, to allow this office to consider whether your request can be answered under the provisions of the Act.

Kind regards,

Ethan Herbert | Private Secretary (Immigration) | Office of Hon Michael Wood Minister of Immigration | Minister of Transport | Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Minister for Auckland | Associate Minister of Finance Executive Wing | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

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Kia ora A Sharma,

 

Please find attached MBIE’s response to your email of 6 May 2023 to the
previous Minister of Immigration. We apologise for the time it has taken
us to respond.

 

 

 

Ngâ mihi,

Richa

Ministerial Services Team

Associate Deputy Secretary Immigration Branch

Immigration New Zealand

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

 

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