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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Immigration advisers to be licensed, unless exempt

8: Offshore immigration advice

You could also call this:

“Rules for people giving immigration advice from outside New Zealand”

This law is about people who give advice about immigration. It applies to those who give advice from inside and outside New Zealand.

If you don’t usually live in New Zealand, you don’t need a licence to give immigration advice from outside the country for the first three years after this law was made. During this time, the government will still accept immigration applications from you, and you won’t get in trouble for giving advice without a licence.

However, if you want to, you can apply for a licence one year after the law was made. This is your choice.

After the three years are up, everyone giving immigration advice, no matter where they are, will need to follow this law.

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Part 1 Regulation of immigration advisers
Immigration advisers to be licensed, unless exempt

8Offshore immigration advice

  1. This Act applies in respect of immigration advice provided by a person outside New Zealand, as well as advice provided by a person within New Zealand, except as provided in this section.

  2. Despite subsection (1), a person who is not ordinarily resident in New Zealand need not be licensed in respect of immigration advice provided by the person outside New Zealand before the date that is 3 years after the day on which this Act receives the Royal assent, and—

  3. section 9 does not require the Department to refuse to accept an immigration application or request from such a person before that date; and
    1. such a person will not be treated as committing an offence under this Act by reason only of providing immigration advice outside New Zealand before that date without being licensed.

      1. A person to whom subsection (2) applies may however apply for, and be granted, a licence at any time after the date that is 1 year after the day on which this Act receives the Royal assent, if the person chooses to apply.

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