Cong Zhou (Tom)
CurrentFull licenceCong Zhou is a licensed immigration adviser at New Zealand Immigration Partners in Auckland, holding licence 201701218 since first licensing in 2017.
Licence details
- Licence number
- 201701218
- Licence status
- Current
- Licence type
- Full
- First licensed
- 2017
- Years licensed
- 9
- Licence last issued
- 15 December 2025
- Licence expires
- 14 December 2026
- Business
- New Zealand Immigration Partners
- Role
- Employee
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Published IPT appeals
- 7
Source: IAA public register, refreshed September 2026. Verify on the official register.
Register context
Where this licence sits in the register as at September 2026 — all figures derived from the IAA public register, none editorial.
- First licensed in 2017, alongside 88 others from that year still licensed today. About 57% 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 802 currently licensed advisers based in Auckland.
- Practises alongside 27 other licensed advisers at New Zealand Immigration Partners: David Nicholas Cooper, Daniel John Thomson, Ha Thu Nguyen, Benjamin Luke Hansard, Megan Louise Houghton-Wyld, James Ekerin Bruce and 21 more.
- The register records 9 filings for this licence between 15 December 2017 and 21 November 2025.
Licence history
Every filing recorded on the register for licence 201701218, newest first.
- Full licence issued - Renewal · 21 November 2025
- Full licence - Renewal · 15 December 2024
- Full licence - Renewal · 15 December 2023
- Full licence - Renewal · 15 December 2022
- Full licence - Renewal · 15 December 2021
- Full licence - Renewal · 15 December 2020
- Full licence - Upgrade application · 15 December 2019
- Provisional licence - Renewal · 15 December 2018
- Provisional licence - Initial application · 15 December 2017
Immigration and Protection Tribunal appeal record
7 published decisions of the Immigration and Protection Tribunal (and its predecessor boards) record Cong Zhou as representative for the appellant. Success rates say as much about which cases a professional takes on as about their work — compare them with the all-appellant rate for the same appeal type, and read the decisions themselves.
| Appeal type | Cases | Allowed | Dismissed | Other | Success rate | All appellants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residence: partnership | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 of 2 | 52% |
| Residence: skilled migrant | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 of 2 | 48% |
| Deportation: non-resident | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 of 1 | 37% |
| Residence: family (other) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 of 1 | 50% |
| Residence: other | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 of 1 | 56% |
- [2026] NZIPT 507014Deportation: non-resident · 10 February 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2024] NZIPT 206970fResidence: family (other) · 21 August 2024Referred to Minister — residence granted
- [2024] NZIPT 206823aResidence: other · 27 February 2024Dismissed/declined
- [2021] NZIPT 206334eResidence: partnership · 22 December 2021Allowed
- [2020] NZIPT 205738eResidence: partnership · 21 July 2020Allowed
- [2018] NZIPT 205024eResidence: skilled migrant · 13 November 2018Allowed
- [2018] NZIPT 204789eResidence: skilled migrant · 21 August 2018Allowed
This record may be incomplete. Tribunal decisions usually name the representativeby initial and surname only — “J Bloggs” rather than a full name. Where that could point to more than one person on the register, we leave the decision out rather than risk crediting it to the wrong practitioner, so a practitioner may have appeared in more decisions than are shown here. If appearances of yours are missing, tell us on the corrections page and we will verify them against the published decisions and update the profile.
Compiled from decisions published on the Ministry of Justice tribunal decisions database. A decision is attributed only when the representative named in it matches exactly one person on the relevant register (or the firm named in the decision confirms the match); self-represented appellants and uncertain matches are excluded, so this may undercount. Percentages are shown only where at least 5appeals in that category were decided — below that the counts are given on their own, because a single case would swing the figure. “Other” includes referrals to the Minister, withdrawn appeals and jurisdiction decisions. Context for the all-appellant rates: appeal success rates in New Zealand.
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