Christine Lai Chun Yap (Christine)
CurrentFull licenceChristine Lai Chun Yap is a licensed immigration adviser at Migration Associates (NZ) Limited in Christchurch, holding licence 200900258 since first licensing in 2009.
Licence details
- Licence number
- 200900258
- Licence status
- Current
- Licence type
- Full
- First licensed
- 2009
- Years licensed
- 17
- Licence last issued
- 8 July 2025
- Business
- Migration Associates (NZ) Limited
- Role
- Employee
- Location
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Published IPT appeals
- 0
Source: IAA public register, refreshed August 2026. Verify on the official register.
Register context
Where this licence sits in the register as at August 2026 — all figures derived from the IAA public register, none editorial.
- First licensed in 2009, alongside 103 others from that year still licensed today. About 91% of the 1,690 advisers holding a current licence were first licensed more recently.
- Holds one of 1,376 full licences on the current register.
- One of 126 currently licensed advisers based in Christchurch.
- Practises alongside 2 other licensed advisers at Migration Associates (NZ) Limited: Borey Chum, Michael Francis Cooke.
- The register records 16 filings for this licence between 4 May 2009 and 10 June 2025.
Licence history
Every filing recorded on the register for licence 200900258, newest first.
- Full licence issued - Renewal · 10 June 2025
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2024
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2023
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2022
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2021
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2020
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2019
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2018
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2017
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2016
- Full licence - Renewal · 8 July 2015
- Full licence - Initial application · 8 July 2014
- Full licence - Renewal · 4 May 2012
- Full licence - Renewal · 4 May 2011
- Full licence - Renewal · 4 May 2010
- Full licence - Initial application · 4 May 2009
Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal decisions
Published decisions of the Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal concerning Christine Lai Chun Yap. A decision is not itself a finding of wrongdoing — read each outcome; some complaints are dismissed.
- [2013] NZIACDT 43 — McLeod v C Yap15 July 2013
- [2013] NZIACDT 42 — Geldenhuys v C Yap15 July 2013
- [2013] NZIACDT 27 — Geldenhuys v C Yap12 April 2013
- [2013] NZIACDT 19 — McLeod v C Yap28 March 2013
Immigration and Protection Tribunal appeal record
No published tribunal decisions were matched to Christine Lai Chun Yap. That is not the same as never having appeared: decisions name the representative by initial and surname only, so where a name could point to more than one person on the register we leave it out rather than credit it to the wrong practitioner. Most immigration work also never reaches the tribunal at all. If appearances are missing, tell us on the corrections page.
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