The Labour Party are presiding over an apparently dysfunctional immigration service. Except that their recent actions, where bureaucratic stupidity seems to be the new "law of common sense" also mirrors Labour rhetoric.
"We don't want rich pricks here. Specifically, we don't want rich, white, hard working pricks here."
Quite keen to pack them off home, but probably not so keen on refunding the money invested to date.
From Canada, to the UK. The message is clear. Investing in New Zealand with your hard earned cash is a high risk venture. The government will block you one way or other. So much for the rule of "common sense".
Related Link at No Minister: Couple buys the farm - colloquial expression in NZ for "Thanks for investing in NZ, the tax rate is 100%"
"We don't want rich pricks here. Specifically, we don't want rich, white, hard working pricks here."
Quite keen to pack them off home, but probably not so keen on refunding the money invested to date.
From Canada, to the UK. The message is clear. Investing in New Zealand with your hard earned cash is a high risk venture. The government will block you one way or other. So much for the rule of "common sense".
Related Link at No Minister: Couple buys the farm - colloquial expression in NZ for "Thanks for investing in NZ, the tax rate is 100%"
British couple who came to New Zealand to live their dream of running a farm are being booted out of the country after a nightmare experience with an "incompetent" Immigration Service.--Stuff Article
Roger and Alison Schenn estimate they have spent about $1 million upgrading a formerly dilapidated farm near Wellsford, north of Auckland, but immigration officials say the business is of no benefit to New Zealand and have refused to grant them permanent residency.
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