Family
Quota Category
The
objective of the Family Quota Category is to strengthen families
and communities by providing New Zealand citizens and residents
with an opportunity to sponsor family members who do not qualify
for residence under any other category of Government residence
policy.
The
Family Quota Category allows for a quota of people each year to be
chosen by ballot to be considered for residence in New Zealand.
The number of places available under the Family Quota Category is
announced by the residence in New Zealand. The number of places
available under the Family Quota Category is announced by the
Minister of Immigration each year.
You
may lodge a full application for residence under this category
only if your sponsor’s registration is drawn from the pool (see Registering
for the Family Quota pool below).
You
may be granted residence under the Family Quota Category, if:
-
You
are sponsored by your adult child, adult grandchild, adult
sibling or parent; and
-
You
are not eligible for residence in New Zealand under any other
category of Government residence policy;
-
Your
application is made within 6 months of the NZIS’s advice to
your sponsor that the sponsor’s registration has been drawn
from the Family Quota pool.
Registering
for the Family Quota pool
If
your parent, adult grandchild, adult sibling or adult child meets
the requirements for sponsors set out above, and wish to sponsor
an application for residence for you under the Family Quota
Category, they must lodge a registration in the Family Quota
Category pool.
The
registration must be submitted during the registration period to
an onshore branch of the NZ IS. The registration period is for one
calendar month.
For
the annual period 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002, the registration
period will be from 2 April 2002 until 3.00 p.m. on 30 April 2002.
If
your sponsor’s registration is received within the registration
period, their registration will be entered into the registration
pool unless the registration is disqualified.our
sponsor must pay a fee for registration (see the leaflet New
Zealand Immigration’s Guide to Fees (NZ
IS 1028)). If their registration is not successful in the Family
Quota Category pool draw, tht fee will not be refunded.
Disqualification
of registrations
If
your sponsor lodges more than one registration during the
registration period, all their registrations will be disqualified.
If
two or more registrations are lodged for you (or any of your
family members included in the registration) within one
registration period, all of those registrations will be
disqualified.
If
you (or any of your family members included in the registration)
have a residence application under any other category of
Government residence policy under consideration by the NZIS at the
date your sponsor’s registration is lodged, the registration
will be disqualified.
If,
at the time your sponsor lodges their registration, you (or any of
your family members included in the registration) are unlawfully
in New Zealand or subject to section 129U of the Immigration Act
1987 (concerning refugee status claimants), the registration will
be disqualified.
Including
family members in registrations
If
you have a spouse or de facto partner and/or dependent children)
all of those people must be included in your sponsor’s
registration.
If
your sponsor’s registration is successful in the pool draw, only
your spouse or de facto partner and/or dependent children included
in the registration may be included in the resulting application
for residence under the Family Quota Category.
If
your spouse or de facto partner and/or dependent children were
eligible to be included in the registration but were not included,
they cannot later be granted residence under the Spouse or De
Facto Partner or Dependent child policies of Family Category.
