Currently Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is experiencing a high demand for temporary visa applications received in New Zealand and has made an operational decision to distribute a number of applications across global footprint to ensure applications can be allocated and processed as quickly as possible by utilizing global processing capacity.

For the short term, this will mean that the office where the application was first allocated to, may not be the office that makes the final decision. Offices onshore that are transferring work, have partnered with the receiving office offshore to ensure consistency of process and escalation of any issues. 

In summary;

• Online student visa applications submitted in NZ will be transferred to INZ Mumbai Area Office for processing.
• All paper post study work visas (WD1 & WD2) will be processed in Palmerston North Area Office
• Online visitor and work visa applications will be processed in China and some applications that are represented by Licensed Immigration Advisers will be processed in other onshore processing hubs. 

The process of transferring work commenced on the 21 May 2017 and will be reviewed at the end of June 2017.