Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I guess in New Zealand we probably don't have sufficient evidence of a big enough problem to do that. There are lots of young New Zealanders who go away overseas every year as working holiday makers and who bring back partners. If they were 23 and they wanted to get married

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, 25 sounds very old.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, sorry, we don't assess at all for employment readiness. We have a very permissive partnership policy, I guess. We have recently strengthened our parent policy so that now people have to be quite well off to be able to bring their parents to New Zealand. For skilled migrants w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's not a huge amount of resources, I would say. Some of the immigration branches provide debt information to prospective applicants. I know that in our Indian branches, for example, when people have been applying for visas to come to New Zealand, essentially either for cultur

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there is, for refugees only.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. For other sponsored spouses, the information that is provided is in the nature of being on the Internet, basically. There will be things in the community as well, if they join with community associations and so forth. Someone who is very vulnerable, though, may have informat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. They may have lived overseas for one year. It's just the relationship must involve one year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It can occur in New Zealand, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. If we have a New Zealander who has been living overseas, for example, and was married overseas, and lived together for a year or more overseas with their partner, the partner can apply for residence before they even enter New Zealand.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But it's still 66% getting residence, though.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it is fast. Our residence processes are a lot quicker than Canada's in general, but the other thing about the domestic violence residence applications is that they have top priority for processing, so they have the same priority as a skilled residence application, or a refug

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It should be less than a year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Excluded from having to pay the migrant levy, which is what people pay once they've been approved, the fee is about $800 or $900. It can be waived if they are destitute, but the fee is around $900.