I received an anonymous tipoff this morning that visa applications to a PTE had been suspended after a staff member had been arrested for “offences against the Immigration Act 1987 and the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007″. Since I can’t easily verify some aspects, I’ll leave out any details of the organisation named (and I’ll also carefully moderate any comments on this post).

Normally, I wouldn’t even pass this one on, but I received a copy of  a very official-looking email from an immigration official and it would take a lot of work to recreate all that bureaucratese! There was also a suggestion that other institutions were being investigated by NZQA for some similar activities. If that’s true, I’m quite happy – not that illegal activities may be happening but that NZQA is doing something about them, along with Immigration NZ.

I’ll provide more details as they are confirmed.