Overstayers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:00:15 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Overstayers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Chilean Family seek sanctuary in Christchurch church https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/02/20/chilean-family-seek-sanctuary-in-christchurch-church/ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:52:32 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=68238 An immigration lawyer says a Chilean family seeking sanctuary in a church in Christchurch to avoid deportation is wasting their time and should consider heading back to Chile. The priest at the church where the family sought refuge declined to be interviewed and asked that the name of his church not be reported. The Ravet Read more

Chilean Family seek sanctuary in Christchurch church... Read more]]> An immigration lawyer says a Chilean family seeking sanctuary in a church in Christchurch to avoid deportation is wasting their time and should consider heading back to Chile.

The priest at the church where the family sought refuge declined to be interviewed and asked that the name of his church not be reported.

The Ravet family has lived in New Zealand for 11 years and have a nine year old daughter who was born here - but the parents' work permits have expired.

Their immigration consultant said they would stay in the church until the Government considered their case to stay. Continue reading

Chilean Family seek sanctuary in Christchurch church]]> 68238 Tongan overstayers being deported to cyclone damaged homes https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/02/18/tongan-overstayers-deported-cyclone-damaged-homes/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:30:50 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=54470

A lawyer representing overstayers from Tonga claims New Zealand is deporting people to some of the most cyclone-damaged areas of the island nation. The immigration lawyer, Richard Small, says the New Zealand authorities are wanting to send Tongan overstayers back to the area, and he has 30 such cases on his books. He described deporting Read more

Tongan overstayers being deported to cyclone damaged homes... Read more]]> A lawyer representing overstayers from Tonga claims New Zealand is deporting people to some of the most cyclone-damaged areas of the island nation.

The immigration lawyer, Richard Small, says the New Zealand authorities are wanting to send Tongan overstayers back to the area, and he has 30 such cases on his books.

He described deporting people with medical conditions to an area devastated by a cyclone as perverse.

He says New Zealand has a role to play as a neighbour and a responsible member of the Pacific Forum, and should introduce a two-month moratorium on deporting people to Ha'apai, on humanitarian grounds.

Labour's Pacific Islands Affairs spokesman Su'a William Sio has called on the Government to call a temporary halt on Immigration New Zealand deporting people to Ha'apai

Sio says, "Immigration New Zealand's decision to deport overstayers back to the islands of Ha'apai where 5000 people were displaced and 800 homes destroyed was described by lawyer Richard Small as ‘perverse"

He has called on Pacific Affairs Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga to call a temporary halt on Immigration New Zealand deporting people to Ha'apai.

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Tongan overstayers being deported to cyclone damaged homes]]> 54470 Tongan flight scam tricks overstayers https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/06/tongan-flight-scam-tricks-overstayers/ Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:30:09 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=29002 Police believe people as far away as the South Island may have been subject to a scam when 100 Tongans turned up at Auckland Airport last week to collect airline tickets that never existed. The group paid a fraudulent immigration adviser $250 each for return airfares from Auckland to Tonga. Waikato police today said they Read more

Tongan flight scam tricks overstayers... Read more]]> Police believe people as far away as the South Island may have been subject to a scam when 100 Tongans turned up at Auckland Airport last week to collect airline tickets that never existed.

The group paid a fraudulent immigration adviser $250 each for return airfares from Auckland to Tonga.

Waikato police today said they had been contacted by 15 people who had bought the tickets but were aware of many more in Auckland and others as far away as Wellington and the South Island.

Police are working to establish the extent of the scam and want to hear from anyone who fell victim to it.

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Tongan flight scam tricks overstayers]]> 29002 Pacific overstayers in NZ hit hard by new complaints criteria http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=64697 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:30:53 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=17329 The Ombudsman's office in New Zealand is being criticised for tightening the rules on complaints from overstayers about their dealings with Immigration New Zealand's Pacific division. Thirteen overstayers were granted residency this year after the Ombudsman ruled they had been misled by the division in 2005, with promises of jobs and residency.

Pacific overstayers in NZ hit hard by new complaints criteria... Read more]]> The Ombudsman's office in New Zealand is being criticised for tightening the rules on complaints from overstayers about their dealings with Immigration New Zealand's Pacific division.

Thirteen overstayers were granted residency this year after the Ombudsman ruled they had been misled by the division in 2005, with promises of jobs and residency.

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