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Immigration lawyer urges government to act quickly on parent visas

Source: NZ Radio, 09/05/2019

He wouldn`t give a time frame for when a decision would be made but
said it would be before the next election.
Lawyer Aaron Martin said potentially thousands of families were being
left in limbo, wondering how they would plan their lives with ageing
parents.
`There`s been indications that it was going to be done shortly after
the election and it was supposed to be about midway through this year
and now it seems to [be] becoming the carrot that`s going to be
dangled in front of a portion of the electorate prior to the next
election,` Mr Martin said.
The parent category visa was frozen by the National government in
2016. It allowed parents of migrants who had been permanent residents
for more than three years to live here.
Immigration New Zealand last week said there was no evidence that
people on parent category visas were taking advantage of social
assistance.
It gave a submission to the Education and Workforce select committee
on a petition by David Barker urging the government to lift the
moratorium on the visa.

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