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This briefing recommends providing a pathway back via red flights from Australia while Quarantine-Free travel (QFT) remains suspended and seeks agreement to urgently release vouchers in September and October from 17-29 August to respond to high and growing demand for MIQ places.
PDF, 3.7MB, 13 pages
Seeks in-principle agreement as Border Exception Ministers that an amended Polynesian Gateway border class exception be referred to Cabinet for approval; provides an update on MIQ capacity, and incoming requests for class exceptions and out of-cycle MIQ group allocation; and provides an overview of the cohorts that have been approved for border exceptions through the border exception regime over the past year.
PDF, 569KB, 13 pages
Advises proposed approach to civilianise a small number of NZDF leadership roles within the MIQ operating model, in response to a key recommendation in the Rapid Assessment of MIQ.
PDF, 435KB, 6 pages
Provides an update on the scoping work undertaken on the possible establishment of a new managed isolation facility in Rotorua; seeks agreement to not progress bringing online an additional Rotorua MIQ facility, given community feedback and wider health workforce constraints in the region; and seeks agreement that officials do not undertake any further work on identifying any additional hotels to add to the MIQ network.
PDF, 320KB, 6 pages
Ministers agreed to a launch date for the new Active Investor Plus visa and were provided an update on key pieces of work and upcoming milestones for the new visa ahead of its announcement on 20 July 2022.
PDF, 981KB, 14 pages
Ministers agreed the eligibility criteria that determine the list of acceptable investments under the Active Investor Plus visa and agreed to operational policy decisions required to finalise immigration instructions.
PDF, 1.9MB, 17 pages
Sets out further advice on transitioning complex groups in Managed Isolation and Quarantine in transitioning to a 7 day stay. Includes information relating to how exemption requests will be managed from 14 November.
PDF, 436KB, 6 pages
Provides you with the second Evaluation report for the Self-Isolation pilot, covering the airport arrivals and transfer to Self-Isolation.
PDF, 408KB, 11 pages
Seeks endorsement to the commencement of Phase One of the moderate transition approach for MIQ facilities, and agreement to issue a 90-day notice period to the IBIS Rotorua before the end of the year (enabling the decommissioning process to conclude for this facility by the end of March 2022).
PDF, 472KB, 10 pages
provides material to seek direction on compliance monitoring (education, location monitoring, and enforcement) of border arrivals self-isolating under the medium-risk pathway. It outlines lessons on location monitoring gleaned from the Self-Isolation Pilot and the experience of other jurisdictions. It also articulates the complexities associated with location monitoring border arrivals self-isolating under the medium-risk pathway, pertinently: lack of a readily available workforce, enforcement challenges, and inconsistency with the treatment of community cases and close contacts. Alternative options to location monitoring are set out.
PDF, 542KB, 18 pages
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