Zuzug New Zealand not refunding natural visas

Recidency NZ says it works on a cost-recovery basis and refunds are only given in special circumstances. Photo / 123rf

Manufactured by Gill Bonnett, of RNZ

Immigrants say they feel fooled after their visas were not ready-made and they received no refund.

Michael Hemmerde applied for household in 2019 but lost string job as a manager at Auckland’s ASB Waterfront theatre in August.

The Chilean asked Migration New Zealand (INZ) for a give back and was refused two months when you want it.

“I had not definitely been given a case officer, nothing have happened to my file, ” proving said. “When you apply for another thing and you don’t get a service, you are expectant a refund of the work whom wasn’t ever done on your recording.

“They take the hard earned money, they put you in the queue, nada happens, they kept the money and that i never got the service My partner and i paid for. ”

They’ve back home but still angry.

“To be super honest you’ve made, I find what INZ do is a Government-managed scam. ”

Devices Hemmerde Arrieta is back home as Chile and angry after liked asked Immigration New Zealand for a refund but was refused two months when the time comes. Photo / Supplied

Qi Lishuang, supply by china manufacturer, who worked in hospitality interior South Island for four weeks and weeks, asked INZ what work became done since she applied for family home in December 2018.

“I’ve been waiting one and a half a number of then all of a sudden I got a case police days after I submitted my discount request, ” she said. “They said ‘oh, your documents have been transported from one building to another building of the same branch in Mānukau – your hard earned money is in there now, you’re who cannot take it back. ‘

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“I just said, is completely a robbery, but might be legal. Because you don’t get to say, most people get the final say: ‘Sorry a significant no refunds’. ”

A partial refund for people who no longer do the criteria after such a long delay – and the chaos that Covid had caused to jobs least would help them get on with their worlds, she said.

She would use the money to help pay your wife’s retraining in early childhood education.

Immigration adviser Matt Simpson said the refusal to repayment when little had been done on the applications was a consumer affairs trouble.

Government information your better half received showed little was worked before they were sent to a line for up to two years.

“It’s been triaged at the [document] branch, and they’ve examined all the information is there, then it’s been sent in off to the branch to be prepared be allocated.

“There’s been talk over the last 12 months just about what’s happened with all these subside and if it’s Immigration’s fault and also the Government’s fault. But the reality is which they have just been sat there achieving nothing. ”

Immigrants are forking out to renew work visas while procrastinating to receive a resident visa. Picture / 123rf

Immigrants were also spending money on to renew work visas in the meantime, which ones he described as a money snap up.

Included in the fee using between $2700 and $3300 truly a levy of about $800 – and said at least that should be refunded.

RNZ asked in an Proper Information Act request for the number of who had requested refunds, but was shown that would mean manually examining each of these person’s file.

Pretty much 3000 people had received refunds in the 12 months to September, a great deal in the three previous years eaten in conjunction, and totalling nearly $1. 10 million.

INZ had to talk about it worked on a cost-recovery grounds and refunds were only succumbed special circumstances.