10+
Years of Service

Daniel Kim

Immigration Lawyer (NZIL)

Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Commerce; Graduate Certificate in New Zealand Immigration Advice. ๋ฒ•ํ•™, ํšŒ๊ณ„ํ•™, ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ ์ด๋ฏผ๋ฒ• ํ•™์œ„.

As a Korean-born Kiwi immigration lawyer, Daniel brings his breadth of knowledge and keen insight into the trials and tribulations clients sometimes face when applying to stay and settle in New Zealand. In addition to helping clients with immigration issues like visitor visas and residency, Daniel excels in assisting clients with appeals that arise from declined cases and Ministerial Intervention.

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With a double degree in law and accounting from the University of Canterbury, multi-talented Daniel started his immigration career in 2014. During this time, Daniel worked as an immigration lawyer and advisor in New Zealand and at a global immigration law practice. Despite working on significant cases, Danielโ€™s determination to help his clients in a more personalised manner, especially those from his home nation, led him to join NZIL.

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โ€œI enjoy helping individual clients rather than dealing with big organisations. As part of the Korean community, I aim to provide other immigrants with the knowledge needed to secure the best immigration results for them.โ€

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When he is not working, Daniel loves swimming for its fitness and health benefits, relaxing with family and friends and sampling some of the fantastic, multicultural food on offer at some of Aucklandโ€™s many restaurants.

What advice would you give to someone considering immigrating to New Zealand?

New Zealand is a great place for you and your family to work, live, and study. The country offers a high quality of life, with a strong education system and excellent healthcare services. The work-life balance here is often praised, allowing you to enjoy the beautiful landscapes and outdoor activities that New Zealand is famous for.

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When considering a move, it's important to research the job market in your field, as well as the visa requirements, which can vary depending on your profession and qualifications.

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Additionally, think about the region where you would like to settleโ€”each part of New Zealand has its unique character, whether it's the bustling cities or the serene countryside. Before relocating, it might be helpful to connect with local communities or expats who have already made the move. They can offer valuable insights and tips on adjusting to life in New Zealand.

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Lastly, consider visiting the country beforehand, if possible, to get a feel for the culture and environment. New Zealand is a welcoming and friendly country, making it a great place to start a new chapter in your life.

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๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ์ด๋ฏผ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์กฐ์–ธ:

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๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ผํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒํ™œํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ข‹์€ ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ต์œก ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋„ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ณ , ์‚ถ์ด์—ฌ์œ ๋กญ๊ณ , ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๊ณผ ์‚ถ์˜๊ท ํ˜•์ด ์ž˜ ๋งž์•„์„œ, ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ž์—ฐ๊ฒฝ๊ด€๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์•ผ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์ด์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ง์—…์ด๋‚˜ ์ž๊ฒฉ์š”๊ฑด์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ๋จผ์ € ํ•ด๋‹น๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์ทจ์—… ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋น„์ž ์š”๊ฑด์„ ์ž˜ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋Š ์ง€์—ญ์— ์ •์ฐฉํ• ์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”๊ฑธ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ฐ์ง€์—ญ์€ ์ธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์‹œ์ง€์—ญ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ณจ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์ด์ฃผ ์ „์— ํ˜„์ง€ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋‚˜ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ด์ฃผํ•œ ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ ์ƒํ™œ์— ์ ์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ํŒ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ด์ฃผ ์ „์— ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•ด์„œ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Š๊ปด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ผ์„œ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ถ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—์•ˆ์„ฑ๋งž์ถค์ธ ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

What's your favourite thing to do in New Zealand?

The North and South Islands offer different experiences that I enjoy.

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In the South Island, I enjoy skiing, snowboarding, kayaking, hiking, and other outdoor activities. In the North Island, I enjoy dining at top restaurants, visiting wineries, and shopping for the best brands.

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New Zealand's South Island is renowned for its pristine natural environment and is famous for outdoor adventures. In contrast, the North Island is more populous and culturally vibrant, offering a rich blend of urban experiences.

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๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ™œ๋™:

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๋ถ์„ฌ๊ณผ ๋‚จ์„ฌ์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ ๋‚จ์„ฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์Šคํ‚ค, ์Šค๋…ธ๋ณด๋“œ, ์นด์•ฝ, ํ•˜์ดํ‚น ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์•ผ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จ์„ฌ์€ ์ฒญ์ •ํ•œ ์ž์—ฐํ™˜๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜์—ฌ, ์•ผ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š”๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์„ ํ˜ธ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ถ์„ฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์—์„œ ์‹์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์™€์ด๋„ˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•  ์ˆ˜์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์œ ๋ช… ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์‡ผํ•‘์„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ์„ฌ์€ ๋‚จ์„ฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ณ , ๋ฌธํ™”์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ๋„์‹œ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜์„ ํ˜ธ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.