MINISTRY OF BUSINESS,
INNOVATION & EMPLOYMENT
HiKINA WHAKATUTUKI
13 March 2020
Shane Gibson
[email address]
Ref: DOIA 1920 - 1330
Dear Shane Gibson,
Thank you for your email on 27 February 2020, requesting the following information under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the OIA):
a. Please provide the average time taken to process a Dependent Child Resident Visa for each
calendar year between 2010 and 2020.
b. Please provide the minimum time it has taken for a Dependent Child Resident Visa to be
processed for each of those years.
c. Please provide the maximum time it has taken for a Dependent Child Resident Visa to be
processed for each of those years.
d. Please describe the logic you have used to determine the processing start date and the
processing completion date.
Our response
Part A-C:
Please see table below showing the average, minimum and maximum calendar days taken (from
tendered date to completion date) to process a Dependent Child Resident Visa application, during
the 2010 -2020 calendar years
Please note the figures provided have been rounded to the nearest day, and where the number of
days is recorded as 'O' this means applications were completed on the same day as they were
tendered in the Immigration system.
Calendar Year
Average
Minimum
Maximum
..
(calendar days)
(calendar days)
(calendar days)
2010
225
0
2957
2011
199
0
2576
2012
149
0
2552
2013
111
0
2501
2014
100
0
2644
2015
104
0
2835
2016
85
1
I
1712
2017
90
0
1848
2018
96
1
1341
2019
126
0
1552
2020
161
7
1108
(as at 29 Feb 2020)