When a minor criminal conviction threatened to split his family, a client needed our professional advice to have the best chance of avoiding deportation. Read how principal lawyer Aaron Martin was there to provide reassuring, clear, and compassionate advice.
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In this moving customer success story, Aaron helps an American client get a critical purpose visa as a border closure exception on humanitarian grounds – by far the most difficult and least approved category. Now reunited with his family, Martin and his son are enjoying every moment of their new life in New Zealand.
Our client came to us after a declined visa application, due to criminal activity. The ‘criminal activity’ was only a traffic offence, but immigration had marked it against him. We challenged the charge and the visa was approved – he was allowed to stay in the country that had been his home for six years. Here is his story.
“To be honest it’s more than just knowing your way around the system. It’s also having some who understands your needs and can just get on and get it done.”
Sometimes in life you’ve got to give credit where it’s due. But I don’t think words could convey completely what this man has done for us.
We helped a client renew his New Zealand residence visa, despite being faced with deportation due to a previous criminal conviction during his residency.
