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Review of the practices of the Business Migration Branch of the New Zealand Immigration Service during 2002
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CONCLUSIONS
I have made a number of observations and drawn a number of conclusions throughout this report and I do not intend to repeat all of those here, for instance my comments in the preceding paragraphs on the quality of the applications. The focus of my investigation has been on Mr Delamere's very serious allegation that members of the BMB may have been paid to process applications quickly. In large part, I have been confined to a statistical analysis of the applications, but I believe that has been relatively instructive. It has disclosed that only a very small percentage (1.4%) of the applications in 2002 were processed within a week, and, with one exception, these applications involved a number of agents and a number of case officers. In the absence of hearing or seeing anything to support the contention that there has been untoward or unlawful behaviour (ie "bribery"), I consider that these factors are consistent with there being no untoward or unlawful behaviour in play.
In relation to the one exception, ie the case officer who processed 25 of the 50 applications, I am satisfied that this person is honest and straightforward and therefore was not involved in anything untoward or unlawful. I have certainly not seen anything to suggest otherwise.
Peter Chemis
Partner
29 June 2007