Government says refugees will be stopped at border, even if they have become New Zealand citizens
, gave bipartisan support for the ban, promising to “close that back door by legislation or by regulation” if elected in May.
Refugees resettled in New Zealand from Australia will have the same rights as others, including pathways to citizenship after five years, raising questions about whether they could get special subclass 444 visas that allow New Zealanders to remain indefinitely in Australia to live, work or study. “They have been clear they don’t agree to it – that is fine – we have also been clear that they will never be allowed to settle here in Australia.”
In March, New Zealand immigration minister, Kris Faafoi, said in relation to the deal that “we didn’t make any concessions”. Pezzullo said there is “no other way” to achieve the ban except through legislation, warning that he needed an “absolute tool” to enforce the policy for refugees not to resettle in Australia.Such a bill would “make it unambiguously clear as a matter of statutory law that it would be impossible for a person to take advantage of arriving here on a 444 visa, once they were entitled to that as a New Zealand citizen, and ever permanently settling here”, he said.
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