Immigration Scam – NZIS and the Immigration Minister do sod-all about it.
With all the problems facing the Immigration Department right now – the last thing they probably wanted was a full blown scam being uncovered – with the discovery that neither INZ or the Immigration minister seem to be that bothered about shutting it down.
The deal is this; a Maori Sovereignty activist- Gerard Otimi – has been supplying fake visas to desperate Samoan overstayers and pocketing $500 each time he does it. He has amassed $45,000 so far which – despite his supposed hatred of all things non-Maori – and the fact that he is giving “Maori Money” to the people he exploits – is sitting in a fully colonial bank account – earning interest from a system he claims to despise.
Typical!
Thousands of Pacific Islanders have been queuing up to be scammed by this man, and all the police are willing to do is look into “whether an offence has been committed”.
Holy Crap! You mean it’s not actually illegal to provide someone with a fake visa? Well why didn’t you tell the rest of us that? We too could have circumvented years of frustration and being treated like dirt by NZIS, and just got a fake stamp too – and become certified as Maori to boot!!!
And what about defrauding people? Is that not illegal?
So why hasn’t this man been arrested yet?
On the news last night – the reports just got worse (certainly from the point of view of the many migrants who work their butts off to earn a legitimate place here instead of trying to get past the system by paying $500 to a shyster). It seems that the immigration minister (Jonathan Coleman) is well aware that there are plenty of overstayers in New Zealand – and says that they are a “Low Priority”. Tell that to the two families of Pregnant women who are being hounded out by immigration. It seems it does still depend on your Nationality as to which rules you will be expected to follow.
Worse – Mr Annakin Depoty Secretary DOL) claims that INZ expect overstayers to leave voluntarily or come and talk to them [INZ]. Now am I being thick here – or is it the case that if they left voluntarily they wouldn’t be overstayers? Come on – get your act together! You cant treat my family like crap for 15 months when we did nothing wrong – on the basis that you are “protecting New Zealand” – and then sit back and calmly say that you expect illegal overstayers to leave of their own accord. Your staff should have spent time finding these people instead of hounding us and wasting UK NHS recourses on Medical Tests that you didn’t need!
Why does NZIS treat those of us who work our butts off to get in – work in highly skilled jobs and pay high taxes – like utter crap, and yet are not getting these illegal overstayers out of the country? And worse – NZIS are not working exceedingly hard to persuade the government to jail the scam artist immediately?
Now there are calls to speed the process up for Pacific Islanders. No – sorry but that’s just wrong. They already have an advantage over the rest of us – they have special quotas and do not need to prove they are highly skilled in order to live here. They have their own special branch to fast track the process anyway .
Once again this highlights the colossal unfairness of the New Zealand immigration Service, and the unwillingness of the service – from the top management down to clean up its act. Until they do – New Zealand risks continuing to lose out on the best migrants, or allowing scams like this to rage unabated.
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- Why doesn’t Immigration New Zealand care about overstayers.
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- The Auditor General’s Report on Immigration New Zealand is out.
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One Comment on Immigration Scam – NZIS and the Immigration Minister do sod-all about it.
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james rich on
Sun, 12th Jun 2011 2:34 am
well newzealand immigration needs to wake up and start doing the right things i mean they are alot of overstayers so many confuse depress not knowing what to do and yet they spend milllions of hard earn tax payers money to send this vunerable men and women back to do what? start from where, what ?why is there something wrong i really dont understand why theres no amnesty ,pardon or reopen of files of law abidin overstayer where is the love what happen to humanity to help for sure there will contribute back to the economy is hard
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