Refugee Family Support Category

The Refugee Family Support Category has replaced the previous Refugee Family Quota ballot system.
The objective of the Refugee Family Support Category is to help refugees living in New Zealand to settle by allowing them to sponsor family members for residence. We welcome 300 sponsored people (including their partners and dependent children) to settle in New Zealand each year under the Refugee Family Support Category.

It is currently anticipated that new registrations received from now will be waiting two to three years before they are drawn from the queue and receive an Invitation to Apply.

As sufficient registrations have been received and provisionally entered into the tier one queue to fill the number of places available under the Refugee Family Support Category for this financial year, there will not be a tier two ballot in 2008.

There will be another update posted by the Immigration Department in January 2009.