Matthew Gibbons (Matt)
CurrentFull licenceMatthew Gibbons is a licensed immigration adviser at OneStepNZ in Hamilton, holding licence 201002422 since first licensing in 2010.
Licence details
- Licence number
- 201002422
- Licence status
- Current
- Licence type
- Full
- First licensed
- 2010
- Years licensed
- 16
- Licence last issued
- 23 March 2026
- Licence expires
- 22 March 2027
- Business
- OneStepNZ
- Role
- Self employed
- Location
- Hamilton, New Zealand
- Published IPT appeals
- 13
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 2010, alongside 64 others from that year still licensed today. About 87% 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 104 currently licensed advisers based in Hamilton.
- Practises alongside 1 other licensed adviser at OneStepNZ: Jeff Bowyer.
- The register records 16 filings for this licence between 23 March 2011 and 10 February 2026.
Licence history
Every filing recorded on the register for licence 201002422, newest first.
- Full licence issued - Renewal · 10 February 2026
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2025
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2024
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2023
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2022
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2021
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2020
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2019
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2018
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2017
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2016
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2015
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2014
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2013
- Full licence - Renewal · 23 March 2012
- Full licence - Initial application · 23 March 2011
Immigration and Protection Tribunal appeal record
13 published decisions of the Immigration and Protection Tribunal (and its predecessor boards) record Matthew Gibbons 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: skilled migrant | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50%(4 of 8) | 48% |
| Deportation: non-resident | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 of 4 | 37% |
| Residence: partnership | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 of 1 | 52% |
- [2026] NZIPT 507086Deportation: non-resident · 23 February 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2024] NZIPT 506453Deportation: non-resident · 9 September 2024Allowed
- [2023] NZIPT 505735Deportation: non-resident · 14 February 2023Allowed
- [2022] NZIPT 206480fResidence: partnership · 9 December 2022Referred to Minister — residence granted
- [2019] NZIPT 504412Deportation: non-resident · 27 August 2019Allowed
- [2018] NZIPT 204952aResidence: skilled migrant · 19 December 2018Dismissed/declined
- [2017] NZIPT 204291dResidence: skilled migrant · 27 November 2017Allowed — returned to INZ
- [2017] NZIPT 204298eResidence: skilled migrant · 24 November 2017Allowed
- [2017] NZIPT 203977dResidence: skilled migrant · 30 June 2017Allowed — returned to INZ
- [2017] NZIPT 203684aResidence: skilled migrant · 31 January 2017Dismissed/declined
- [2015] NZIPT 202671fResidence: skilled migrant · 30 October 2015Referred to Minister — residence granted
- [2013] NZIPT 201361aResidence: skilled migrant · 27 August 2013Dismissed/declined
- [2013] NZIPT 200917aResidence: skilled migrant · 20 March 2013Dismissed/declined
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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