Non-priority queue statistics
Anatoliy Goryachev made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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From: Anatoliy Goryachev
Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
My name is Anatoliy and I've been residing in New Zealand for the past three years. Currently in Auckland.
Please help me to get answers on couple requests regarding Skilled Migrants Category / Residence From Work (thereafter SMC/RFW) applications backlog. As you aware, currently all residence applications are divided into two streams: priority (those earning double median wage and with occupational registration) and non-priority (the rest):
1) Could you please share the numbers on how many residence applications were allocated to case officers (separately for priority and non-priority queue) for each of the weeks below:
Week commencing 04 January 2021;
Week commencing 04 January 2021;
Week commencing 11 January 2021;
Week commencing 18 January 2021;
Week commencing 25 January 2021;
Week commencing 01 February 2021;
Week commencing 08 February 2021;
Week commencing 15 February 2021;
Week commencing 22 February 2021;
Week commencing 01 March 2021;
Week commencing 08 March 2021, etc..
(Please provide numbers up to the date of the reply)
2) What is the total number of priority / non-priority applications in SMC/RFW queue currently awaiting for CO allocation? Also, please provide number of applicants behind these applications.
3) Could you please provide data for the number of EOI applications (and number of applicants behind these EOIs) currently sitting in the pool and waiting for the selection.
4) Also please share if Immigration New Zealand have any plans on resuming EOI for the SMC stream in a foreseeable future.
Appreciate your time.
Yours faithfully,
Anatoliy Goryachev
From: Ministerial Services
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Ref: 2021-1565
Dear Anatoliy,
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 19 February 2021 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:
“1) Could you please share the numbers on how many residence applications
were allocated to case officers (separately for priority and non-priority
queue) for each of the weeks below:
Week commencing 04 January 2021;
Week commencing 04 January 2021;
Week commencing 11 January 2021;
Week commencing 18 January 2021;
Week commencing 25 January 2021;
Week commencing 01 February 2021;
Week commencing 08 February 2021;
Week commencing 15 February 2021;
Week commencing 22 February 2021;
Week commencing 01 March 2021;
Week commencing 08 March 2021, etc..
(Please provide numbers up to the date of the reply)
2) What is the total number of priority / non-priority applications in
SMC/RFW queue currently awaiting for CO allocation? Also, please provide
number of applicants behind these applications.
3) Could you please provide data for the number of EOI applications (and
number of applicants behind these EOIs) currently sitting in the pool and
waiting for the selection.
4) Also please share if Immigration New Zealand have any plans on resuming
EOI for the SMC stream in a foreseeable future.”
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From: Anna McLachlan
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Dear Anatoliy Goryachev
Please see attached the response to your request for information.
Ngā mihi
Anna McLachlan (she/her)
BUSINESS ADVISOR
Operations Support, Border and Visa Operations Branch
Immigration New Zealand, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
[email address]
Level 1, 15 Stout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6011
My working hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 8:30am to 3:30pm
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