1 September 2023
45 Pipitea Street, Wellington 6011
Phone +64 4 495 7200
dia.govt.nz
Joh T
[FYI request #23691 email]
Tēnā koe Joh
OIA request 23/24 0078 Request for information on the processing of citizenship by grant
applications.
Thank you for your Official Information Act (Act) request received by the Department of Internal
Affairs (Department) on 4 August 2023.
You requested –
1. Could I please have the processing status of citizenship by grant applications sumbitted in
September 2022 (online only) and the number of unassigned applications, received in this
period, broken down by workstreams.
2. Can you please provide application status in each workstream by Birth Country
Philippines, for all online citizenship applications submitted on the month of September
2022?
3. Can you please provide application status in each workstream by Birth Country for all
online citizenship applications submitted on date: September 2, 2022?
4. What are the criteria for the urgent applications under employment:
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Employment and deployment
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You may meet this criterion if you need citizenship to:
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start a new job,
Is a working holiday visa overseas part of this "start new job"?
In response to your request, I can provide you with the following information.
Questions one, two and three
Please refer to Appendix A attached. Appendix A provides you with a breakdown of the
following information:
• Table one – Citizenship by grant applications submitted online in September 2022 by
workstream and status.
• Table two – Citizenship by grant applications submitted online in September 2022, with the
birth country Philippines, by workstream and status.
• Table three – Citizenship by grant applications submitted online on 2 September 2022 by
country of birth, workstream and status.
Question four
I can advise that this information is accessible via a proactively released Official Information Act
response 2122-0786 available here:
https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Files/OIA-Releases-
2022/$file/OIA-2122-0786.pdf. As such, I must refuse this portion of your request pursuant to
section 18(d) of the Act: that the information requested is publicly available.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, the Department has
decided to proactively release a copy of this response on its website. All requestor data,
including your name and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released
response will be made available here:
https://www.dia.govt.nz/Official-Information-Act-
Requests-2.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi
Kate Raggett
Manager Operational Policy and Official Correspondence
Service Delivery and Operations
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