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Advice on Grant of Citizenship to Peter Thiel

Jason Danner made this Official Information request to Minister of Immigration

The request was successful.

From: Jason Danner

Dear Minister of Immigration,

Please advise whether Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship under the "special cases" provision.

If he was granted citizenship under the "special cases" provision, please advise the special case cited in this circumstance.

Yours faithfully,

Jason Danner

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From: M Woodhouse

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

 

Please be assured that all correspondence is read by this office. If your
email falls outside of the Minister’s portfolio responsibilities, or
expresses a personal view, your opinion will be noted and your
correspondence may be transferred to another office or there may be no
further response.

 

Where the Minister has portfolio responsibilities for the issues raised, a
response will be sent to you in due course.

 

Thank you for taking the time to write.

 

Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse 
Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836 |

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From: M Woodhouse

Dear Mr Danner

On behalf of Hon Michael Woodhouse, I acknowledge your request under the Official Information Act 1982 regarding:

"Please advise whether Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship under the "special cases" provision.

If he was granted citizenship under the "special cases" provision, please advise the special case cited in this circumstance."

Your request was received in this office on 25 January 2017.

The information you have requested is not held by this office, but is likely to be held by Minister of Internal Affairs.

Therefore I am transferring your request under section 14(b)(i) of the Official Information Act 1982 to the office of Hon Peter Dunne for consideration.

Yours sincerely

Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse │ Parliament Buildings │ Wellington

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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()

RNZ has reported that:

"Mr Guy, who was the internal affairs minister at the time, said Mr Thiel was granted citizenship under a provision of the Citizenship Act that stated it would be "in the public interest due to exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian or other nature"."

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/3...

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Jason Danner left an annotation ()

Thanks Mark!

I have seen that - it was reported well after I submitted this request.

Still interested to know the "special circumstance" which they said they will release under OIA.

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From: P Dunne (MIN)
Minister of Immigration

Dear Mr Danner

 

The Minister of Internal Affairs recently received an Official Information
Act 1982 (Act) request from you in relation to the application for New
Zealand citizenship by Mr Peter Thiel.

 

This request for information was responded to by the release of
information on 1 February 2017 by the Department of Internal Affairs
(Department). 

 

This information was made available on the Department’s website
([1]http://www.dia.govt.nz/citizenship-of-mr...).

 

Your request for information is therefore declined on the basis of Section
18(d) of the Act.

 

If you have any further questions, please direct them to the Department.

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

Office of the Hon Peter Dunne

Minister of Internal Affairs

 

 

 

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