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24: Immigration instructions for lapsing of applications for visas
or “Rules for when visa applications are no longer processed”
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“Immigration instructions must be publicly available and accessible”

The chief executive must make immigration instructions available to the public. You can find these instructions for free at Department offices and New Zealand government offices outside the country that handle immigration matters. The chief executive needs to make sure you can easily find and look at these instructions.

However, some information might not be shared if it can be kept private under the Official Information Act 1982. This means that if someone asks for certain information using that Act, and it’s allowed to be kept private, then it doesn’t have to be made available with the immigration instructions.

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Part 2 Core provisions and matters in relation to decision making
Immigration instructions

25Publication of immigration instructions

  1. The chief executive must publish immigration instructions.

  2. The chief executive must ensure that copies of immigration instructions are available or readily obtainable for inspection, free of charge, at—

  3. offices of the Department; and
    1. New Zealand government offices overseas that deal with immigration matters.

      1. Nothing in subsection (2) requires the making available of information that could properly be withheld in accordance with the provisions of the Official Information Act 1982, were a request to be made for the information under that Act.

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