Originally Posted by
deverett
By the seems of things it appears the Indian community has been the main focus of partnership visa issues. There's been a lot of news articles citing delays with them and then subsequently rejecting a lot of cultural marriages, so much so that INZ had to backtrack and review a lot of decisions they made as it was deemed culturally insensitive and went all the way up to Jacinda Ardern to fix. There was delays with those visas but most that got reported on were again seemingly Indian couples that had married and lived apart. I'm not sure if they are the only target or the only ones being reported on as it's not common in western cultures to marry and live in separate countries, it's much more of an issue if your spouse is on another continent rather than already in the country.
I think the majority of those cases applied more to partnership visitor visas and partnership work visas. There will have been some cases with partnership residency too, but I was wondering if they were quashing residency visas across the board or just shifting laser-focused, deliberate ineptitude towards SMC. I do feel like this is Winnie Peter's twisting the knife on migrants before he is possibly kicked out of deputy PM position next year.