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Immigration lawyers in Tauranga

There are 3 immigration lawyers based in the Tauranga area, and 6 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 Tauranga counsel

15 published appeals name counsel based in Tauranga, across 3 of the 3 listed here, most recently 18 March 2025. “Allowed” is the appellant’s share of decided appeals; a percentage is shown only where at least 5 were decided.

Appeal typeAppealsAllowedDismissed
Residence8 appeals
Partnership32 of 3 decided1
Skilled migrant21 of 2 decided1
2021 Resident Visa10 of 1 decided1
From work & Green List11 of 1 decided0
Dependent child11 of 1 decided0
Deportation7 appeals
Non-resident617% 1 of 6 decided5
Resident10 of 1 decided1

Counts come from decisions the tribunal has published and that name a representative we can identify with certainty. Appeals settled, withdrawn or resolved before a decision do not appear, so this is a record of published outcomes rather than of everything a practitioner has done. How matching works is set out in the methodology.

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Facing deportation from New Zealand - liability, notices and appealsBeing liable for deportation is not the same as being deported: it is the start of a process with strict deadlines, and what you do in the first days matters most. Residents served a deportation liability notice generally have 28 days to appeal to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal; a person who becomes unlawful has 42 days from first becoming unlawful to appeal on humanitarian grounds. The tribunal cannot extend either deadline. In the tribunal's published decisions, 37% of 4,009 decided non-resident deportation appeals and 35% of 536 decided resident deportation appeals succeeded: real prospects, but ones that reward early, well-prepared cases.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 Tauranga, alongside 45 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 Tauranga 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 Tauranga. Whether one takes on your matter is for that immigration lawyer to decide.

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