Ref: DOIA 1617-1217

 

Dear Anchal Marwah

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your emails of 3 & 5 April 2017 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

1.I am just willing to get a list of number of resident visas issued under
Skilled Migrant Category based on offer of employment from IINET NEW
ZEALAND AKL LIMITED for the role of ICT Customer Support Officer in last 4
years till date.

 

2.Also I wanted to know what is minimum the Pay Scale annually for an ICT
Customer Support Officer (ANZSCO:313112 ICT Customer Support Officer ) on
the basis of which Immigration/Case Officers decide if the applicant for a
SMC Resident visa is getting standard market wages or not?

 

Can you please provide these two information as soon as possible under
"Official Information Act 1982."

 

This is for my personal analysis which i am collecting for an appeal to be
made to Immigration & Protection Tribunal. I am not associated with any
media.

 

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
your request feel free to contact us via email [1][MBIE request email] or
using the contact details below.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

Alan Witcombe

MANAGER, MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

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Dear Anchal

Please find attached our response to your OIA request.

 

Kind regards

 

Tim Shepherd

OPERATIONS MANAGER (ACTING)

 

Operations Support - Visa Services, Immigration New Zealand

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

 

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Dear Anchal

 

Please find our responses to your questions in red below.

 

Should you have any further questions, please get in touch with the
Immigration Contact Centre on 0508 55 88 55.

 

Kind regards

 

Tim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Anchal Marwah
[[1]mailto:[FOI #5665 email]]
Sent: Monday, 8 May 2017 12:37 p.m.
To: Tim Shepherd
Subject: Re: DOIA 1617-1217 Anchal Marwah [IN-CONFIDENCE:RELEASE EXTERNAL]

 

Dear Tim Shepherd,

 

Hello Tim,

 

Good Afternoon.

 

I thank you and appreciate your responses in accordance with my request as
per DOIA Reference 1617-1217.

 

As per the email you have advised if I would require any further
assistance i can contact you.

 

I would like to further add as per your response you have advised:

 

1.A range of salary information resources is being considered by the visa
officers before coming to a decision To be precise you mean to say case
officers/Immigration officers DO NOT make decisions on a SINGLE SPECIFIC
SALARY RESOURCE is that right?

 

As stated in the response to the OIA request, immigration officers consult
a range of salary information resources and come to a conclusion after
taking into account all information that is available, including an
applicant’s previous work experience.

 

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2.I also wanted to further ask how does the case officers decide that
weather the Job duties performed by the applicant is matching to the
extent of ANZSCO job role?

 

I mean for an example one of the job role of ICT Customer Support Officer
(313112) is to:

"determining software and hardware requirements to provide solutions to
problems"

 

as per ANZSCO website.

 

How does the case officer decides weather the applicant is doing the role
as per the ANZSCO code or not, if the case officer is not having an ICT
background (In the above given example)?

 

Is there any back end (ICT specialized trained team) that INZ has to
advise case officers/visa officers, that the specific job role is a basic
role or requires specific ICT knowledge?

 

Or does the Case officers decide by themselves regardless of them not
having the knowledge about that specific job role and is only dependent on
the answers given by the employer to the case officer?

 

In order to determine whether or not an applicant is correctly performing
the job that they claim to be doing as per the ANZSCO description,
Immigration New Zealand refers to a range of resources. For example,
industry knowledge may be shared with offices through advice to staff.
Additionally, our offices may conduct additional verification or may have
a relationship with industry representatives. Please note that it is also
mandatory by the law that employers correctly outline duties in the job
description that we compare to the ANZSCO.

 

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3.Can the employment offer from an employer which was previously
considered as skilled employment by INZ for considerable number of years
can be changed to an unskilled employment even though job roles,salary
structure and even the Immigration NZ rules or policy have not been
changed, if yes than why please?

 

In some circumstances, an applicant may claim to be a certain role and
then they will be granted the visa on the basis of the position. However,
when they apply for another visa at a later date for the same position, an
immigration officer may re-assess the job description and discover that
actually it does not correctly match the ANZSCO stated by the applicant.

 

Can you please advise how does that defines the integrity of decisions
made by Immigration New Zealand in the past, current and future?

 

Integrity:-

"the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles."

 

or

"the state of being whole and undivided"

Please note:The Immigration NZ had declared the Job offer from that
Specific employment as a Skilled Employment till 20th April 2017 and hence
the Skilled Migrant Category Resident Visas had been approved till 20th
April 2017.

 

Please refer to immigration instructions at A1.15:
[2]http://onlineservices.immigration.govt.n...

 

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4.Are these the two most essential requirements for an applicant to be
granted Employer Assisted-POST STUDY WORK VISA (2 years) after completing
his/her qualification in NZ?

 

A)Does the employment offer should precisely match the level of education
applicant has received from NZQA?

B)Immigration New Zealand should be satisfied that the main reason for the
employment being offered to the applicant was his qualification in NZ?

 

Please refer to immigration instructions at WD1:
[3]http://onlineservices.immigration.govt.n...

 

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I really appreciate your time and efforts for assisting me with my
queries.

I hope to hear from your end soon.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Anchal Marwah

 

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Dear Anchal

 

Please find attached our response to your OIA request.

 

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

Tim Shepherd

 

OPERATIONS MANAGER (ACTING)

 

 

 

Operations Support - Visa Services, Immigration New Zealand

 

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

 

 

 

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