What are the new immigration rules for partners?

What are the new immigration rules for partners?

There was a very important announcement today from the prime minister of New Zealand because one of the burning issues in the last few weeks here in New Zealand as regards the immigration process is concerned is the fact that the Immigration Department of New Zealand they are called to have become very strict and processing but receive visa applications where you know it's a partnership made out of marriage or defect partnership where they live long enough together to be considered to be in areal partnership so what the Immigration Department of New Zealand decided was that they going to stick to the rule book or better go word by word practically and say unless and until you are in a real relationship and understand until you have been living together for 12 months we will not consider you as partners now obviously that created a lot of problem for people from countries like India and some other countries predominantly from South and Southeast Asia where marriages are a bit more traditional and in many instances these marriages are arranged marriages and people who come to New Zealand let's say to study the finish their studies and get into the post study work visa and find a good job and then they go back home and get married and then they want to bring their partner across to New Zealand but what happened was because of this traditional way of getting married it was clashing with what was there in the immigration law offices and which said that not only should you be you know an illegitimate relationship but you should also have been living together for 12 months so obviously that created up bit of catch-22 situation because most of this you know people who get married are in traditional marriages and they don't actually live with this person they just get married and want to get the spouse along so their only option was to Peter go back and live with this person for 12 months and then come back again saying that okay look we live for 12 months together and here's all the proof or are you know kind of so it was a quite messy to be honest and then there was a bit of all you know verbal just happening between one of the cabinet ministers and some of the members of the Indian community and it caught on board only and so eventually it reached the prime minister's office as well where she has said that they're instructing immigration New Zealand the department to revert back to the statuesque as it was before and take into consideration that the traditional marriages may not necessarily adhere to the exact wedding as per the immigration law of New Zealand so then I think is very welcome news and I'm sure there are a lot of relief people out there because you know what they don't get married to be able to bring them over and that sort of thing and sometimes as I said in traditional marriages that full 12 months living together does not happen so as the Prime Minister even went on to say that it was actually not a cabinet decision but it was actually a decision made by certain officials within the immigration so I bet they're going to revisit this whole thing and I think it's a very proactive government.