Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
NZ Immigration will screen.
Its also for people who may claim political asylum. Or have a poor history of border compliance. NZ immigration policies are a lot weaker than many other countries, partially Australia.
To be more exact, for the last ~25 years NZ Immigration has taken a processing and facilitation role, rather than the compliance and enforcement role that Australian Immigration has pursued. That policy actually changed to re-focus on compliance/enforcement when the current government came in.