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About this directory

Under New Zealand law, only a licensed immigration adviser or an exempt person, such as a New Zealand lawyer with a current practising certificate, may give immigration advice. The Immigration Advisers Authority keeps the official register of licensed immigration advisers, but the register is built for one-name-at-a-time lookups.

Register refreshed every month, currently October 2026.

What this site is

immigrationadviser.co.nz turns that register into a directory you can actually browse: licensed immigration advisers by city, businesses and their teams, licence histories, and register-wide statistics, refreshed every month.

  • A way to find licensed immigration advisers near you and compare them on verifiable register facts.
  • A way to verify that whoever you are dealing with is actually licensed, including people whose licences have lapsed.

What this site is not

This site does not give immigration advice, and listing here is not an endorsement. Ordering is by objective register facts only: see how listings are ordered. Nobody pays to appear or to rank.

The authoritative source is always the IAA public register. If this site and the register disagree, the register wins, and we would like to hear about it via the corrections page.

Frequently asked questions

No. It is not run by the Immigration Advisers Authority, Immigration New Zealand or any other government agency. The Authority keeps the official register of licensed immigration advisers, and this directory is built from it.

The register is right. This directory is rebuilt from it every month, so a change can take until the next refresh to show here. If you notice a difference, tell us on the corrections page.

Yes. The immigration lawyer list is researched from public sources, including the New Zealand Law Society's register, and may miss people. Absence from the list says nothing about an immigration lawyer. Use the corrections page to tell us about one who should be listed.

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