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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
New Associate Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi had stepped in to defer the deportation order served on an intellectually disabled man of Fiji-Indian dissent.
The case of Sagar Narayan, who was served a deportation order in April this year and was given until October 27 to leave in the country, had generated a lot of emotions.
“Yes. No deportation will take place until Associate Minister has reviewed the case,” Alastair McClymont, the immigration lawyer for Sagar Narayan told The Indian Weekender.
Sagar’s father Lalit Narayan, a caregiver by profession, had arrived on the resident visa in New Zealand in 2008.
At that time, Sagar’s name was removed from the initial application for residency with Immigration New Zealand (INZ), and he remained in Fiji with extended family.
Sagar arrived in New Zealand in 2009 on a temporary visa and had remained on temporary visas till 2016 when the family decided to lodge a permanent visa application.
However, INZ had declined the request.
Now, with a change of government, there is a likelihood of complete review of that initial decision by the INZ.
New Associate Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi had stepped in to defer the deportation order served on an intellectually disabled man of Fiji-Indian dissent.
The case of Sagar Narayan, who was served a deportation order in April this year and was given until October 27 to leave in the country, had...
New Associate Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi had stepped in to defer the deportation order served on an intellectually disabled man of Fiji-Indian dissent.
The case of Sagar Narayan, who was served a deportation order in April this year and was given until October 27 to leave in the country, had generated a lot of emotions.
“Yes. No deportation will take place until Associate Minister has reviewed the case,” Alastair McClymont, the immigration lawyer for Sagar Narayan told The Indian Weekender.
Sagar’s father Lalit Narayan, a caregiver by profession, had arrived on the resident visa in New Zealand in 2008.
At that time, Sagar’s name was removed from the initial application for residency with Immigration New Zealand (INZ), and he remained in Fiji with extended family.
Sagar arrived in New Zealand in 2009 on a temporary visa and had remained on temporary visas till 2016 when the family decided to lodge a permanent visa application.
However, INZ had declined the request.
Now, with a change of government, there is a likelihood of complete review of that initial decision by the INZ.
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