Selling New Zealand by the Pound

How the New Zealand government is selling NZ citizenship to the Highest Bidders

Christopher Laine
Waking up Kiwi
Published in
5 min readDec 22, 2021

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So a couple months ago, I had the chance to write about how the super rich are paying their way into NZ citizenship as a way of making our beautiful country into their personal panic room from the rest of the world. You can read about that here.

Here we are, four months on, and it appears matters are only getting more ridiculous.

An article on Stuff today says New Zealand immigration is opening the floodgates to wealthy investors, all on the promise of money flowing into the government and business coffers.

38 immigration approvals have gone out to rich people wanting to buy their way in, with another 76 close on their heels. Behind them, there are nearly a…

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