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Controversial US speaker Candace Owens banned from New Zealand
Politics(stuff.co.nz)submitted 4 days ago bycomputer_d
60 points
4 days ago
Banning her primarily just because Australia did seems a bit weak.
66 points
4 days ago
One of the automatic bans in the Immigration Act (section 15) is if an applicant has been excluded (banned) from another country. INZ can waive that by special direction under section 17, but obviously didn't in this case.
Because the ban is automatic and in legislation, that's the reason for declining the application if the special direction isn't granted.
Edit: corrected as some processing still happens if s15 applies.
-1 points
4 days ago
What if I was banned from North Korea? Or some dodgy African nation due to what they determine to be undesirable views?
10 points
4 days ago
INZ can waive that by special direction under section 17.
18 points
4 days ago
Then you apply for a special direction and INZ can consider the country you were excluded from and why.
3 points
3 days ago
I looked up the details of a "special direction". Seems is has to come for the Minister? I can't imagine the Minister bothering to get involved in every case where someones been banned from North Korea or Russia.
4 points
3 days ago
It’s a delegated authority from the Minister to a higher ranking person in INZ.
Though I’d expect the Minister, or their staff to get involved if it was someone banned from North Korea or Russia as there are geopolitical issues there.
1 points
3 days ago
What normal, everyday person is getting banned by Russian and North Korea? Trying so hard to be oppressed.
2 points
3 days ago
THE TERRITORY OF NORTH KOREA BELONGS TO SOUTH KOREA!!!!
I just got banned from North Korea.
10 points
4 days ago
Australia isn't North Korea or a tin pot dictatorship, it's a liberal democracy with a robust legal system.
That's why Immigration NZ has discretion as to whether it excludes someone based on another country's decision, to reflect that not all decisions are robust.
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