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N.Z. visitor permits (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 29. Applicants for permits to visit New Zealand are asked by the Immigration Division to undertake not to apply for any extension of a permit, it was alleged yesterday. The Council for Civil Liberties asserted in a statement that applicants’ friends and relatives in New Zealand are also asked to undertake not to ask for an extension or for a permanent residence permit for the applicant.
The division insisted on the undertakings before deciding an application and later used them to justify refusal of an extension or permanent residence approval, said the council’s chairman, Miss S. Smith. She said that the Labour Department rule frustrated the will of Parliament as expressed in the Immigration Act, 1964, and she called on the Minister of Labour (Mr Thomson) to investigate the practice and end it forthwith.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33035, 30 September 1972, Page 21
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