1 September 2022
45 Pipitea Street, Wellington 6011
Phone +64 4 495 7200
dia.govt.nz
James
[FYI request #20201 email]
Tēnā koe James
OIA request 22/23 0120 Request for citizenship by grant application timeframes
Thank you for your Official Information Act (Act) request received by the Department of Internal
Affairs (Department) on 11 August 2022.
You requested –
•
The status of paper based citizenship applications made in the months of April 2021,
May2021, June, 2021, July 2021, August 2021, Sept 2021 in Auckland.
Month - Total applied - Yet to be processed - Still in processing - Approved - Withdrawn
In response to your request, please refer to the table below. The table provides a breakdown of
paper-based citizenship by grant applications received at the Auckland and Manukau offices
between April and September 2021.
Current status of application
Unassigned -
Month
Still
Declined/
Total
yet to start
Approved
received
Processing
Withdrawn received
processing
Apr-21
0
19
362
8
389
May-21
0
42
476
22
540
Jun-21
<5
284
209
15
509-513
Jul-21
174
72
43
9
298
Aug-21
218
12
27
<5
267-271
Sep-21
<5
<5
<5
0
3-12
Please note:
• Applications received at the Manukau office have been included as this is technically Auckland.
• The total applications may differ slightly from any previous similar statistics. The way we
determine which office the applications were received at is by looking at the office address of
the citizenship trained Life and Identity Services Officer who entered the application. Some staff
may have changed offices since April 2021 so their applications would not show up in
Auckland/Manukau.
• September has very low volumes due to the Auckland offices being closed because of Covid-19
at that time.
• Numbers smaller than five have been masked by ‘<5’
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, the Department has
decided to proactively release a copy of this response on the DIA website. All requestor data,
including your name and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released
response will be made available here:
https://www.dia.govt.nz/Official-Information-Act-
Requests-2.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi
Julia Taylor
Manager Operational Policy and Official Correspondence
Service Delivery and Operations
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