Dear Minister Penk

Please provide the following information regarding your decision to grant Candice Owens a visa to enter New Zealand:

1. All communication and advice from Immigration on why they made the decision to decline the visa.

2. All communication and advice from Immigration to assist you in making your own decision.

3. All correspondence from you and your office to Immigration regarding the visa(s).

4. All communications with the other Immigration Ministers regarding the visa(s).

5. All communications with the Prime Minister regarding the visa(s).

6. All communciation and advice received regarding the use of ministerial interference.

7. All correspondence received from the following - the Department of Internal Affairs, the Classification Office, the Ministry of Justice, Police - regarding or mentioning Candice Owens.

8. All communications received from the Free Speech Union regarding the visa(s).

9. Any other communications and correspondence you have received regarding or mentioning Candice Owens that is about or alluding to Nazis (and similar terms such as Neo-Nazi and Nazism), the Holocaust, COVID-19, and the Christchurch terrorist shooting (and similar terms such including the name of the shooter).

Many thanks,

Gus M