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Te Pāhekoheko, Kāwai ki te iwi | Operations, Service Delivery and Operations
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From: D Desgupta <[FOI #24015 email]>
Sent: 01 September 2023 16:34
To: OIA <[DIA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Increase in numbers of citizenship applications

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Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

Between two OIA requests, there was up to a 41% increase in reported applicants in the citizenship processing queue (processing and unallocated) from the months of August 2022 to November 2022. Although this data is tagged with a disclaimer that the information comes from a dynamic system and the data may not add up between reports, this represents a very large change that cannot be adequately explained by the nature of a dynamic system. Please explain the reason for this significant discrepancy. The relevant requests are:

OIA 2223 0959 - Reporting Date 3 July 2023 OIA 2324 0077 - Reporting Date 9 August 2023

The total number of applicants for each of the months covered by these responses is summarised below:

August 2022:
OIA 2223 0959: 1280 pending applications OIA 2324 0077: 1806 pending applications (+41%)

September 2022:
OIA 2223 0959: 1151 pending applications OIA 2324 0077: 1477 pending applications (+28%)

October 2022:
OIA 2223 0959: 1138 pending applications OIA 2324 0077: 1504 pending applications (+32%)

November 2022:
OIA 2223 0959: 1196 pending applications OIA 2324 0077: 1618 pending applications (+35%)

Yours faithfully,

DDL

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Tēnā koe D Desgupta ,

 

Please see attached for the response to your Official Information Act 1982
request.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Vi Saena| Official Correspondence Advisor
Te Pāhekoheko, Kāwai ki te iwi | Operations, Service Delivery and
Operations

Te Tari Taiwhenua  The Department of Internal Affairs
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