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Welcome to Immigration Trust – Trusted Experts for Complex New Zealand Immigration Matters

With over 10 years of proven success and more than 800 complex cases handled, Immigration Trust stands as one of New Zealand’s most trusted immigration advisory firms. We specialise in the most challenging immigration cases - including unlawful status (Section 61 requests), deportation liability notices (DLNs), Ministerial Intervention, IPT appeals, medical and character waivers, visa declines, and difficult partnership visa cases.

Our CEO, a Justice of the Peace for over 15 years and recipient of the Queen’s Service Medal (QSM), is regularly interviewed by major news outlets as a recognised immigration expert. Following a distinguished 15-year career as a university lecturer, transitioned into immigration law to apply expertise toward helping individuals navigate complex immigration challenges.

His leadership ensures that every case is handled with the highest level of professionalism, expertise, and care. We have extensive experience across a wide range of immigration challenges, including:

Section 61 Requests: Helping those with unlawful status stay legally in New Zealand. [See our successful cases]
Unlawful Status Cases: Legalising immigration status for overstayers and visa overstayers. [See our successful cases]
Appeals to IPT: Successful Declined Resident Visa, Humanitarian, Deportation and successfully appealing to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal. [See our successful cases]
Deportation Liability Notices (DLN): Assisting in cancelling or suspending DLNs. [See our successful cases]
Parent Resident Visas with Medical Issues: Overcoming medical challenges for parent visa applicants. [See our successful cases]
Ministerial Intervention Requests: Expert advocacy when no other immigration pathways are available. [See our success stories]
Urgent Reconsiderations for Declined Work Visas: Fast and strategic reconsideration applications. [See our successful cases]
PPI and RFI Letter Responses: Expert representation to extend deadlines, guide your response, and challenge immigration concerns. [See our success cases]
Visitor and Student Visas: Solving complex visitor and student visa challenges, including urgent PPIs. [See our successful cases]
Medical Waivers: Assistance for applicants with conditions like HIV, Hepatitis B, cancer, early autism, and more. [See our successful cases]
Character Waivers: Helping applicants with drink-driving, domestic violence, or prior visa issues secure approvals. [See our successful cases]
Partner Visa Cases: Specialists in partnership visas, even for long-distance couples, same-sex relationships, new relationships formed after the breakdown of previous relationships that supported their current visas, transgender partnerships, and cases with previous declines. [See our successful cases]
Changing Lawyers or Advisers: Seamless transition for clients dissatisfied with previous representation - licensed immigration adviser or immigration lawyer.

At Immigration Trust, no case is too difficult. Your future in New Zealand matters to us — and we fight to secure it.

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