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New Zealand retained responsibility for defence and foreign affairs for the two nations and residents of both states remain New Zealand citizens. [33] In late December 2024, Foreign Minister Winston Peters rebuffed a proposal by Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown for the territory to have its own passport while retaining New Zealand ...
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA; Māori: Te Tari Taiwhenua) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with issuing passports; administering applications for citizenship and lottery grants; enforcing censorship and gambling laws; registering births, deaths, marriages and civil unions; supplying support services to ministers; and advising the government on a range of ...
In contrast to a New Zealand permanent resident, a New Zealand citizen. is entitled to hold and travel on a New Zealand passport; must never be deported from New Zealand; can stand for public office; does not need a visa for their return to New Zealand; is entitled to New Zealand consular protection; may represent New Zealand at international ...
From 1 January 1978, when the Citizenship Act 1977 came into force, foreign nationals receive New Zealand citizenship by grant, under New Zealand nationality law. Prior to that date, they received citizenship by naturalisation. Both are included here.
After the creation of modern New Zealand citizenship with the passing of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948 (which came into force on 1 January 1949), residence in New Zealand no longer qualified British or Commonwealth citizens for a New Zealand passport, and they had to apply for New Zealand citizenship then for a passport, with increased work for the Department of ...
The impetus for New Zealand to pass the Act was Britain's parliament passing the British Nationality Act 1948 in July 1948, commencing from 1 January 1949. That Act created Commonwealth citizens as a replacement for the legal status of "British subjects".
Fact check: Presidential inauguration fact check: Analyzing claims from and about Trump Usha Vance was born 39 years ago in San Diego to Hindu Indian parents who came to the U.S. in the 1970s .
An Immigration NZ spokesperson clarified that the map had been published as part of its online fact sheets on the humanitarian situation in Palestine and New Zealand's refugee program. The Israel Institute's Director Ashley Church demanded that the Immigration Minister apologize to the Jewish community and confirm this did not represent New ...