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      From: k
      
    
    Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
For the dates january 1st to Uctober1st 2025
- How many current or reservist IDF soldiers have applied for Israel Working Holiday Visas  
- How many of these have been granted 
- How many applicants for this visa have declared that they may have been "involved in human 
rights abuse activities" 
- Have any of those applicants been issued a "character waiver"? and under who's direction were 
those waivers issued?
Yours faithfully,
k
        From: NoReplyMinisterialServices
        Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
      
    
    Kia ora K,
  
 On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
 acknowledge your email of 4/10/2025 requesting, under the Official
 Information Act 1982, the following:
  
 For the dates january 1st to Uctober1st 2025
 - How many current or reservist IDF soldiers have applied for Israel
 Working Holiday Visas
 - How many of these have been granted
 - How many applicants for this visa have declared that they may have been
 'involved in human rights abuse activities'
 - Have any of those applicants been issued a 'character waiver'? and under
 who's direction were those waivers issued?
  
 We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and no
 later than 3/11/2025, being 20 working days after the day your request
 was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
 notify you of an extension of that timeframe. If you have any enquiries
 regarding your request feel free to contact us via email to
 [1][MBIE request email].
  
 Nāku noa, nā
 Ministerial Services
 Strategy and Assurance
 Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
 15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 |  P O Box 1473 Wellington 6140
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        Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
      
    
    Kia Ora K
 
Please see the attached response to your request for information under the
 Official Information Act 1982.
 
Nāku noa, nā
Emina
MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Immigration New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, PO BOX 1473, Wellington 6140
NZBN 9429000106078
 
 
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