12 October 2023
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Phone +64 4 495 7200
dia.govt.nz
Dhiraj
fyi-request-24155-
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Tēnā koe Dhiraj
OIA request 23/24 0188 Request for citizenship by grant data
Thank you for your Official Information Act (Act) request received by the Department of Internal
Affairs (Department) on 15 September 2023.
You requested –
•
Citizenship application status for: Applied in November 2022. Country by birth of
applicants: Nepal. Status: approved, assigned, unassigned, rejected and withdrawn.
In response to your request, I can provide you with the fol owing information.
Caveats to data
• The data was collated on, and is accurate of 29 September 2023
• Counts between 1 and 4 are masked by <5 to help prevent identification of individuals. If
a country, workstream or status had a count of zero then this is not shown in the table.
• As data is extracted from a dynamic system, there may be small variances when
compared with prior or future datasets.
Citizenship by grant applications submitted in
November 2022 with country of birth Nepal
Current Status
Count
Approved
5
Processing
<5
Unassigned
14
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 its website. Al 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
Anne-Claire Wyseur
Manager Operational Policy and Official Correspondence (Acting)
Service Delivery and Operations
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