Transcript of audio from Kevin Third, Group Manager Service International

“When the ballot is run, the computer randomly picks registration numbers from the pool and it counts the number of people included in those registrations and stops when we have enough registrations to fill the quota for each country.

“There is no fee for registration for the Samoan Quota and this is because of the treaty of friendship that is enjoyed between the two countries. However, there are costs involved in registering for the Pacific Access category.

“The annual Samoan Quota allows up to 11-hundred citizens of Samoa to apply for residence in New Zealand and the Pacific Access Category accepts up to 250 citizens of Tonga and up to 75 from each of Kiribati and Tuvalu. All of these are selected randomly by ballot.”