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
14 June 2021
Ref: OIA 21 - 130
John
By email
: [FYI request #14682 email] Dear John
Request for information under the Official Information Act
Thank you for your follow-up email dated 9 June 2021, to the New Zealand Customs Service
(Customs) via the FYI website, in which you request the following information under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
“I would like to have the visa information for arriving passengers.”
Previous correspondence Customs has had with you in February 2021 and March 2021
asked what type of visa information you were after and advised you that visa information is
only available for arriving passengers and not departing passengers.
In response to your request, please find attached a spreadsheet titled
‘Passenger
movements by month, visa type and nationality’ which contains arriving passenger numbers
to New Zealand by nationality (passport) and visa type from 1 March 2020 to 30 April 2021.
We have also added in departure information as this is what you had originally requested in
February 2021.
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.
If you have any queries about this response, please contact the Correspondence, Reviews
and Ministerial Servicing tea
m at [email address] .
Yours sincerely
Debbie Kay
Manager, Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing