Visa Waiver - please share your experiences

[ml12791]

Hi everyone,

Is there someone here who has an experience going to NZ via visa waiver and they have histories of visa decline (e.g. partnership)?
We're exploring another way on how my partner can come back here so we can gather more evidences and live together before lodging another partnership visa.
Can you please share your experiences and the things you showed if you were stopped at the border?

Hoping for your responses.
Thank you very much.

[ml12791]

Up for this please. Hoping someone can share their experience.

Thank you.

[JandM]

People with a visa application in who then try to use the visa-waiver system are very likely to be turned back at the NZ airport and not allowed entry. As soon as their passport is scanned by Immigration at the airport, the record in the INZ computer shows that this person already has an application in, which hasn't yet been decided. They therefore meet the classic profile of someone trying to get round proper procedure, and likely, if they don't get a favourable outcome, to disappear into the grey community of illegal overstayers.

[allune]

@JanM I think they wouldn't apply for partnership again just yet not until partner has successfully entered NZ once again via visa-waiver... After gaining entry through visa-waiver, that's when they would continue collecting evidence for partnership. OP was asking if his partner will be allowed on visa-waiver if the partner has a declined partnership visa application in the past. Would he be flagged as someone with a failed visa application?

I guess it would still boil down to the partner being able to prove he is a genuine/bona fide visitor.

[JandM]

Your last two sentences - yes, he might. The next question would be, "What is the reason for your visit?"

Then, yes, bona fide is at the base of the problem for couples in this situation.