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Topic

Citizenship Processing Efficiency

5 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

The post highlights concerns about long wait times for New Zealand citizenship applications and calls for improved processing efficiency to address a growing backlog.

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  • Yeah, look, the numbers, they're not great changes, but it's just really good to see. And kudos to Immigration New Zealand for that. Jock Gilrave, her running a really tight show, they should put him in charge of the whole thing because he really does run a tight ship. And I think what it is, is a relentless wave of desperate sort of village people down the bottom of a well looking at the land of milk and honey. And, you know, they can get an MBA from a local market for $10 and a gold Rolex for 20 bucks. And always trying their luck. We see it every day on our. um inbound inquiries too and they're just you know they slowly sort of erode our rule of law we've gone from being the least corrupt nation in the world to being the fourth least corrupt so well done to inz for uh um you know having giving giving their systems in order and making fast and efficient decisions and keeping the bad guys out
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beehive Government / N-A

improving on long-standing delays

Citizenship office smashing timeliness targets
11 May
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