That’ll help ‘unleashing small businesses’ eh
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Apparently they now call the Immigration Minister Ian Lees Goaway in Wellington :-)
Thanks for your opinion, but it sounds like you believe all the spin being fed out by national who admittedly are very good at dirty politics(lots of practice hey). Very trump like in fact. For example spending about an hour on the file sounds like more than enough, with hundreds of files crossing his desk regularly, its rubbish to say not enough time spent. And a summary of the 150 ? page plus should be accurate and cover everything he needs to make the right decision.
You are absolutely right. Looking for one hour at the file of a convicted drug dealer should be more than enough time to decide whether he should be granted permant residency. Just highlights the incompetence of this government. If one hour is not enough for such a trivial decision, how could we expect them to run the country?
Thanks for clarifying this for us.
There is some validity behind your statement - but its wrong in the context of this case. ILG is on record as saying: "This was right up there … probably one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make so far". So it is quite reasonable to expect that you are going to spend quite some time on one of your toughest ever decisions. (Edit to add as mentioned above - if he found this decision tough he is patently unqualified for the job)
And if its one of your most difficult decisions ever made a competent person would ask the boss for some guidance. That he didn't shows his incompetence. If he did it makes a liar out of Adern who once again conveniently "knows nothing" until the media reported it. How is it she is not involved in the most difficult decisions her Ministers are making?
Makes no difference if the report is one page or 1,500 pages. If ILG is only going to "read various aspects of the full file" then he is only going to read the aspects he wants to read.
Patently he read the bit about the guy holding a visa in a false name. Obviously he knew he was in prison. There's no doubt he read the bit about him being a drug importer. All that makes him a suitable person to have a resident visa. Just how low a threshold does a person need to have to be declined? Pretty bloody low by the looks of it.
ILG's decision making ability (or lack of) throws into doubt every other decision he has made. Time for a review to see what other riff raff he has let into the country and what decent people he has refused.
Its his officials/staff who have stuffed up imo, who are these faceless people who have a bit of a reputation of much conservatism and bottom minding and not being very adventurous or assertive. Jeez i mean the next improve your performance review should be , always check with GOOGLE and take accountability for what you produce!
Check whose name is at the top of the letter and whose signature at the bottom. http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/18...el_Sroubek.pdf