WELLINGTON
The Customhouse, 1 Hinemoa Street, Wellington
PO Box 2218, Wellington 6140
Phone: 04 901 4500 Fax: 04 901 4555 All general enquiries phone: 0800 428 786
Email: [email address] Website: www.customs.govt.nz
22 February 2021
Ref: OIA 21 - 017
John
By email
: [FYI request #14583 email]
Dear John
Request for information under the Official Information Act
Thank you for your email dated 31 January 2021 to the New Zealand Customs Service
(Customs) via the FYI website, in which you request the following under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
“I would like to request the annual statistics for New Zealand citizens travel on foreign
passports to enter and leave New Zealand from 2010 to 2020.
Please provide break down for each nationality of passport used.”
On 1 February 2021, we advised you that Customs cannot distinguish those New Zealand
citizens that arrived into New Zealand on a foreign passport and that we can only supply you
with a breakdown of all nationalities that have arrived into New Zealand. On 2 February
2021, you advised that this information is sufficient.
In response, please find attached a spreadsheet titled
‘Arriving air passengers by nationality’ which contains arriving passengers to New Zealand by nationality from 1 January 2010 to 31
December 2020.
If you have any queries about this response, please contact the Correspondence, Reviews
and Ministerial Servicing tea
m at [email address] .
Please note that Customs proactively releases responses to Official Information Act requests
on our website. As such, we may publish this response on our website after we have sent it
to you. Your name and contact details will be removed.
Yours sincerely
Debbie Kay
Manager, Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing