Well, my partner is still in america (maybe it would have been simpler if he'd come here on a visitors visa and then looked into something else. hindsight hey :/) and I was thinking maybe NZIS figured if they declined it he wouldn't be bothered pursuing it any further. But it all seems a little hinky to me as I phoned NZIS on friday to ask some general questions (like how do we apply for a character waiver which I didn't get a straight answer to) and they said it should say exactly why he was declined on his letter, but he told me that all they said was it was declined, so he asked why and they just said character. So, I don't really know what's going on
Maybe we've just been dealing with the wrong people.
And I'm still trying to find out anything I can about character waivers, I've been feeling like this is a brick wall