Some interesting facts and figures about Immigration New Zealand.
I’m working my way through the Auditors Generals report.
While it will take quite a long time to get through it – there’s some interesting facts and figures that are presented – which actually came as some surprise.
For example – it seems that only 5% of the visa applications that INZ deal with are for permanent entry – 95% of them are for temporary visas such as work or visitor visas. About 60% of all applications – whether for temporary or permanent visas are handled by onshore branches in New Zealand.
There are 16 Offshore Branches of INZ, and 29 “Agency Posts” which are contracted out by INZ in countries that do not require dedicated branches.
The report looked at 10 branches, including the four main onshore branches and London.
Immigration New Zealand accounts for two thirds of Department of Labour funding and employs more than 60% of the staff there.
It takes 5 days of theory training followed by a test to end up with a warrant to be a Visa officer and assess and decide on applications.
20% of Visa decision that were actually reviewed by the OAG were considered to be poor – and most of those were decisions made by Onshore Branches.
Immigration Branches are funded on the basis of the number of immigration decisions that they make. This ended up being a huge concern to the OAG because it encourages sloppy decision making.
The Christchurch and Sydney branches of INZ came up with Project Crusade to clear backlogs of temporary Visa and Permit applications. They fast tracked 1770 applications by not following policy and procedure.
There are now roughly 500,000 applications going into INZ each year – that is for both temporary and permanent visas.
There are 24 verification officers in the Auckland area – working out of a specialist unit, 1 in the London branch and none in Wellington. Verication officers are there to basically verify documents, job offers and the like.
On the other hand – the great news is that:
My Parents and Brother arrive today.
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Related posts:
- An interesting Immigration report – part 2
- Auditor General report – The NZIS computer system sucks.
- Immigration New Zealand is still misleading people about Work To Residence Visas.
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4 Comments on Some interesting facts and figures about Immigration New Zealand.
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William Knight on
Mon, 8th Jun 2009 8:02 pm
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Hubby on
Mon, 8th Jun 2009 11:35 pm
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Avalon on
Tue, 9th Jun 2009 11:33 am
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Avalon on
Tue, 9th Jun 2009 11:37 am
I think the reason there are systematic failures at NZI might be to do with the 5 day training course.
I mean, what can you learn in 5 days? How to pick you teeth? The computer says no!
I suppose they don’t want to train staff any longer in case they develop initiative!
Hi William, it’s a fair point. If you train people to only drive a process, then it’s not their responsibility or fault if a ‘wrong decision’ drops out at the end. It’s the process which got it wrong.
= no common sense
= no responsibility or accountability
= NZIS can never be at fault
My, doesn’t that sound familiar? Too many jobs are about following the process instead of using sensible judgement.
Steps off soap box.
Id like to say thats the worst that comes out in this report. Unfortunatley it isnt. Wading through it – I am really beginning to understand why so many people have problems with applications. It is truly depressing and more than a bit scary 
PS – I’ve also added your site to the blogroll – hope thats OK 
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