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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Dear Mr McIntyre

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

'Please advise how many grants of citizenship have been made since 2013, under section 9(1)(c) of the Citizenship Act.

Please include;
-The number per year,
-Whether they were deemed "in the public interest because of exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian [...] nature", or, -Whether they were done under any "other nature relating to the applicant", -Details as to what the exceptional circumstances and public interest were that warranted the citizenship grant.'

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

-----Original Message-----
From: John McIntyre [mailto:[FOI #5268 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2017 2:51 p.m.
To: M Woodhouse
Subject: Official Information request - Number of citizenships granted in special circumstances

Dear Minister of Immigration,

Please advise how many grants of citizenship have been made since 2013, under section 9(1)(c) of the Citizenship Act.

Please include;
-The number per year,
-Whether they were deemed "in the public interest because of exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian [...] nature", or, -Whether they were done under any "other nature relating to the applicant", -Details as to what the exceptional circumstances and public interest were that warranted the citizenship grant.

Yours faithfully,

John McIntyre

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To whom it may concern

 

The Department recently received an enquiry from you under the Official
Information Act 1982 in relation to the application for New Zealand
Citizenship by Mr Peter Andreas Thiel.

The Department has today released information in relation to this matter
which responds to your request.  You can access the information via the
below link:

 

[1]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Citizenship-of-M...

 

 

Ngā mihi

 

Briget Ridden | Manager Business Improvement and Support | BDMCAT
Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua 

[2]www.dia.govt.nz

[3]DIAlogo

 

 

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Dear Mr McIntyre

 

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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