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Immigration lawyers in New Plymouth

There are 3 immigration lawyers based in the New Plymouth area, and 3 law firms practising immigration law have an office here. Each firm is verified from its own website as practising New Zealand lawyers, who are exempt from immigration adviser licensing; they are regulated by the New Zealand Law Society instead of the IAA. The list below starts with the longest admitted. How this ordering works.

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Published appeal record of New Plymouth counsel

No published Immigration and Protection Tribunal decisions on this site name counsel based in New Plymouth. That does not mean none have acted on appeals — only that no decision we hold records it. Most representation never reaches the tribunal at all, and practitioners elsewhere in New Zealand act on New Plymouth matters routinely.

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Section 61 requests - getting a visa while unlawfully in New ZealandSection 61 of the Immigration Act 2009 lets Immigration New Zealand grant a visa to a person who is unlawfully in New Zealand, but only as a matter of absolute discretion. There is no application form and no fee up front: the request is an email setting out your case, and INZ has no obligation to consider it, no obligation to give reasons, and no appeal if it says no. Two clocks run at once when a visa expires: the section 61 route, which has no deadline but weakens with time, and the 42-day humanitarian appeal right to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal, which most people lose without ever knowing they had it.Read more

Frequently asked questions

Both can represent you to Immigration New Zealand and at the Immigration and Protection Tribunal. You need a New Zealand lawyer with a current practising certificate if your matter may go to court, or if it crosses into other areas of law such as employment or criminal matters affecting character. 3 immigration lawyers are based in New Plymouth, alongside 4 licensed immigration advisers.

Search their name on the New Zealand Law Society's public Register of Lawyers, which shows whether a person holds a practising certificate. The 3 immigration lawyers listed here for New Plymouth were checked against that register as at 7 October 2026. An immigration lawyer never appears on the Immigration Advisers Authority register, because a New Zealand lawyer with a current practising certificate may neither apply for nor hold an immigration adviser licence.

An immigration lawyer based elsewhere in New Zealand may be able to. Section 234 of the Immigration Act 2009 requires the Immigration and Protection Tribunal to decide an appeal on the papers unless section 233 requires or allows an oral hearing, as it does for some deportation and refugee appeals, and the tribunal may hold a hearing by telephone or audiovisual link. Of the immigration lawyers on this site, 89 are based outside New Plymouth. Whether one takes on your matter is for that immigration lawyer to decide.

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