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Home Affairs facing growing calls to refund Kiwis over permanent resident visa `money grab`

Source: ABC news, 15/06/2023

Migration agent dipped into her savings to help clients afford the visa.
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â€¢ A migration agent is `pleading` with the Department of Home Affairs to refund the cost of her New Zealand clients` permanent resident visas, after they were approved just months before the government revealed it would scrap the need for them.
Morunga Migration director Erina Morunga said she had lodged `a number` of refund requests, with no success.

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