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Immigration Act 2009

Appeals, reviews, and other proceedings - Immigration and Protection Tribunal

217: Immigration and Protection Tribunal

You could also call this:

“A group that reviews immigration decisions and handles related matters”

There’s a special group called the Immigration and Protection Tribunal that helps with immigration matters in New Zealand. This tribunal has several important jobs to do.

You can go to the tribunal if you disagree with certain decisions. For example, if someone says no to giving you a residence visa, or if there’s a decision about whether you’re a refugee or protected person. The tribunal can also look at cases where someone might have to leave New Zealand.

Sometimes, the tribunal needs to decide if a person should no longer be considered a refugee or protected person. This can happen for New Zealand citizens too.

The tribunal also helps when special officers need to check if someone should still be a refugee or protected person. This is only for cases the tribunal or an older group called the Refugee Status Appeals Authority originally decided.

If the Minister asks, the tribunal can check if someone has followed the rules that let them stay in New Zealand for a while.

Lastly, the tribunal helps sort out some leftover matters from when New Zealand changed its old immigration law to the new one. You can find more about this in Part 12 of the Immigration Act.

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Part 7 Appeals, reviews, and other proceedings
Immigration and Protection Tribunal

217Immigration and Protection Tribunal

  1. For the purposes of this Act there is a tribunal called the Immigration and Protection Tribunal.

  2. The functions of the Tribunal are—

  3. to determine appeals against—
    1. decisions to decline to grant residence class visas:
      1. decisions in relation to recognition as a refugee or a protected person:
        1. decisions to cease to recognise a person as a refugee or a protected person:
          1. decisions to cancel the recognition of a New Zealand citizen as a refugee or a protected person:
            1. liability for deportation:
            2. to determine applications—
              1. made by refugee and protection officers in relation to the cessation of recognition of a person as a refugee or a protected person, if the recognition was originally determined by the Tribunal (or by the Refugee Status Appeals Authority under the former Act):
                1. made by refugee and protection officers in relation to the cancellation of recognition of a New Zealand citizen as a refugee or a protected person, if the recognition was originally determined by the Tribunal (or by the Refugee Status Appeals Authority under the former Act):
                  1. made by the Minister under section 212(2) on whether a person has failed to meet his or her conditions of suspension of liability for deportation:
                  2. to deal with certain transitional matters arising from the repeal of the Immigration Act 1987, in accordance with Part 12 of this Act.