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New Zealand Drops Visa Restrictions Against People Living With HIV

In the past, people living with HIV were discriminated against by outdated immigration rules that deemed being poz as not having “an acceptable standard of health.” …
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Confusion over granting of visas for those at risk from Taliban – lawyers

Lawyers say Afghans in New Zealand are confused why only some of the people at threat from the Taliban are being resettled here.
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Immigration officials can bar entry to visa holders, court hears

Immigration officials have the right to refuse entry to people even if they hold a visa, the High Court has been told.
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Crown defends refusing humanitarian visas to Afghans with New Zealand links fearful of Taliban

But the Crown says a special “humanitarian circumstances” visa did not apply to two Afghans challenging New Zealand immigration rules and their application.
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Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship Visa Category Now Open

Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is pleased to confirm that the Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship visa category is now open. Interested community organisations are invited to apply to become an …
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Opinion: Picking up the pieces of our broken immigration system

OPINION: Behind the hardened bureaucrats and colossal red tape at Immigration New Zealand is a Minister who appears to have suddenly realised that after 18-months of doing very little, he might have a …
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Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship visa category now open – MBIE

Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is pleased to confirm that the Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship visa category is now open. Interested community organisations are invited to apply to become an …
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New Zealand Drops Visa Restrictions Against People Living With HIV

In the past, people living with HIV were discriminated against by outdated immigration rules that deemed being poz as not having “an acceptable standard of health.” …
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Crown defends refusing humanitarian visas to Afghans with New Zealand links fearful of Taliban

But the Crown says a special “humanitarian circumstances” visa did not apply to two Afghans challenging New Zealand immigration rules and their application.
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NZ-affiliated Afghans unfairly denied visas, court told

Watch: Newshub can reveal some of those granted visas to leave Afghanistan have been told they may need to pay their own way here. Credits: Newshub. Lawyers acting for Afghanis unable to get visas to …