Immigration agents still claiming that INZ gives them an advantage.

August 30, 2010 by
Filed under: Immigration Advisers 

A press release from Access Immigration popped up on Google News today, and in it was this wonderful little gem:

Mr Milnes adds that Access Immigration’s experience and high standards are increasingly respected by Immigration New Zealand, which accordingly provides the company and its clients with an outstanding quality of service.

Now, call me stuffy – but you aren’t actually supposed to say that, and you sure as hell shouldn’t be speaking for INZ. It is totally unethical in my view to “claim” that INZ respects your company – its up to INZ to say that if they in fact do respect your company.  Because if you are getting an advantage from INZ, then that means INZ are not treating all cases fairly on their merits – and that’s corrupt – and not at all what INZ wants us – the immigrants -  to believe. INZ have said time and again that they do not treat applications from agents any differently to applications from individuals. It isn’t INZ’s place to “respect” an agency either above another agency, or an individual applicant. Their job is to judge the merits of an application.

This kind of dodgy advertising should be stamped on immediately by the IAA unless there is a written statement from Immigration itself to back it up.

I mentioned a while back that the IAA was being used by its members to try and get INZ to give them an advantage – a complete abuse of the purpose of the IAA.

Some Good news from the IAA!

According to the latest newsletter, it seems the IAA are going to publish details of court cases where agents who have been refused licenses have contested that decision in court. Its a small positive – but it is indeed something they have done that I can actually agree with!

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2 Comments on Immigration agents still claiming that INZ gives them an advantage.

  1. Andy on Tue, 31st Aug 2010 3:50 am

    2. I just spoke with one immigration adviser last week. He didn’t tell me he has any advantage, but he did say he knows INZ agents and their supervisors “should there be a need” and that cases he handled were successful and processed very quickly. I’d say it falls under same headline – but OTOH this is what clients want to hear. After all – why hire an adviser if they had no edge over individual applicants?

  2. Avalon on Tue, 31st Aug 2010 7:31 am

    3. Oh yes. Way back when – in the days that my parents tried applying for a business visa – their agent said the same thing funnily enough. In fact he had been a Manager at NZIS London and in New Zealand – so claimed he had a really good inside track.

    Of course the minute there was an issue, and we really needed to use some of that advantage – it turned out to be complete bollocks. In fact about the only thing they did honour was the “you get some of your money back if the application fails”. Eventually.

    I would like to see INZ come out and say whether or not they agree with these agents :) Becuase until they do, agents are still basically calling INZ a bunch a liars!

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