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Viewing entries tagged with 'customs & immigration'

Nosing around the Customs and Excise Bill Sophie Richardson
20 December 2017 at 09:00

Cast your mind back to 2013. Same-sex marriage was legalised in NZ, we learnt more about the activities of the NSA than we ever cared to know, Prince George was born, Margaret Thatcher died and our long Marmite (marmageddon) nightmare finally ended.

‘Absolute discretion’ in immigration law Stephanie Lewis
19 November 2015 at 09:24

If a government agency makes a decision that affects your future, you might well want to find out the reasons for that decision. But the law will not necessarily give you that option.

The search for an accurate age Sam Grover
18 August 2015 at 16:12

What happens when an agency’s record of your identity conflicts with who you actually are? This is the question we grappled with in an Immigration New Zealand (INZ) case that we recently referred to the Director of Human Rights Proceedings.

Customs, passwords and smartphones (oh my!) Tim Henwood
14 July 2015 at 16:47

There’s been a bit of murmuring on Twitter over the past couple of days because of this news story: