Amount paid to VFS Global for visa processing over the last financial year
Keith Head made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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      From: Keith Head
      
    
    Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
I would like to know the answer to the following questions regarding VFS Global Outsourcing:
1.  How much did the NZ Government pay to VFS Global over the last financial year for the processing of visa applications?
2.  How many total visa applications did VFS Global process on behalf of Immigration NZ in the last financial year?
3.  Does VFS Global keep the visa application fees, or pay the fees back to Immigration NZ, or take a percentage?  If they take a percentage, what percentage is it?
Yours faithfully,
Keith Head
        From: *OIA
        Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
      
    
    Ref: DOIA 1617-1027
 
Dear Mr Head
 
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
 acknowledge your email of 1 March 2017 requesting under the Official
 Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:
 
I would like to know the answer to the following questions regarding VFS
 Global Outsourcing:
 
1. How much did the NZ Government pay to VFS Global over the last
 financial year for the processing of visa applications?
2. How many total visa applications did VFS Global process on behalf of
 Immigration NZ in the last financial year?
3. Does VFS Global keep the visa application fees, or pay the fees back to
 Immigration NZ, or take a percentage? If they take a percentage, what
 percentage is it?
 
Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
 will be sent to you in due course. If you have any enquiries regarding
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Yours sincerely,
Alan Witcombe
MANAGER, MINISTERIAL SERVICES
 
Corporate, Governance and Information
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
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        From: Andrew Webber
        Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
      
    
    Dear Mr Head
 
Please find attached a response to your recent request under the Official
 Information Act
 
Regards
 
Andrew
 
Andrew Webber
Senior Analyst  - Commercial Relationships
Visa Services| Immigration New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
 Level 1, 15 Stout Street | PO Box 1473 | Wellington | New Zealand
 Phone: +64 4 896 5193
Mobile: +64 27 438 5070
  
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