About Living in NZ — Licensed Immigration Advisers, Auckland
Living in NZ is an immigration advisory practice based in Grey Lynn, Auckland. We have been advising migrants, families and employers on New Zealand immigration since 2014.
The practice is run by two IAA Licensed Immigration Advisers: Ishvinder Singh (Licence 201401130) and Shaveta Khanna (Licence 202100174). You can verify both licences on the IAA public register.
What we do
We work across the full range of New Zealand immigration: work visas and employer accreditation, skilled and partnership residence, visitor and student visas, and the difficult end of the system — declined applications, reconsiderations, appeals and Section 61 requests.
Roughly half our work is for individuals and families, and half for New Zealand employers navigating accreditation and compliance. Being on both sides is useful: understanding what Immigration New Zealand asks of employers makes us better at preparing the migrant applications that depend on them.
How we work
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute consultation ($99), and its purpose is honest assessment rather than a sales call. Sometimes we conclude you don't need an adviser, and we say so. A straightforward visitor visa with nothing complicated in it is something most people can lodge themselves.
Where we're worth engaging is when something in your situation needs handling — a previous decline, an occupation that doesn't map cleanly, a relationship that's real but awkward to evidence, a compliance gap that needs remedying before Immigration New Zealand finds it.
We tell people what we think, including when it isn't what they want to hear. An adviser who agrees with everything you say isn't giving you advice.
Why licensing matters
It is a criminal offence to provide New Zealand immigration advice without a current IAA licence or an exemption. That law exists because the consequences of bad advice fall on the applicant.
A licensed adviser is accountable to the Immigration Advisers Authority, bound by a professional code of conduct, and subject to a complaints process. Anyone can claim experience. A licence number is checkable.
Languages
We advise clients in English, Hindi and Punjabi. If English isn't your first language, being able to explain your situation properly matters more than it might seem — immigration cases are decided on detail, and the details most easily lost in translation are often the ones that decide them.
Free resources
We publish extensively, and all of it is free: an immigration blog covering policy changes as they happen, a policy update feed, and a set of free calculators and eligibility tools including the SMC Pathfinder, Green List Matcher and median wage reference.
We'd rather you arrived at a consultation already informed. It makes the conversation more useful for both of us.
Contact
Living in NZ — NetworkG Partners Ltd
300 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand
+64 9 213 1677 · WhatsApp +64 21 227 4246 · contactus@livinginnz.co.nz