Immigration Services from Licensed Advisers in Auckland
New Zealand immigration is a system where the same set of facts can produce very different outcomes depending on how they're presented. Most applications don't fail because someone was ineligible. They fail because the evidence didn't demonstrate what it needed to, or a question was answered in a way that raised more concerns than it settled.
Living in NZ is an Auckland-based immigration practice. Ishvinder Singh (IAA Licence 201401130) and Shaveta Khanna (IAA Licence 202100174) have been advising individuals, families and employers since 2014, from our office in Grey Lynn.
We work with people at every stage — a first work visa, a residence application years in the making, an employer building their accreditation, or a case that has already gone wrong and needs fixing.
What we do
- Accredited Employer Work Visas — Work visa applications for migrants, and Job Check and accreditation support for the employers hiring them.
- Skilled Residence — Skilled Migrant Category, Green List, and work-to-residence pathways — including working out which route actually fits before you commit to one.
- Partnership Visas — Partner-based work, visitor and residence applications, where the evidence of a genuine and stable relationship is what decides the case.
- Visitor and Student Visas — Visitor visas including parent and grandparent applications, student visas, and post-study work options.
- Complex Cases, Appeals and Section 61 — Declined applications, reconsiderations, appeals to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal, Section 61 requests, character and medical waivers.
- Employer Services — Accreditation, Job Checks, post-accreditation checks, and ongoing compliance for employers of migrant workers.
Why a licensed adviser
It is a criminal offence to provide New Zealand immigration advice without a current licence from the Immigration Advisers Authority, or an exemption. That rule exists because the consequences of bad advice fall on the applicant, not the person who gave it.
A licensed adviser is accountable to the IAA, bound by a professional code of conduct, and subject to a complaints process. You can verify any adviser's licence, including ours, on the IAA public register.
How we work
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute consultation ($99, credited to your fee). It exists so both of us can find out whether you have a case worth pursuing, and whether we're the right people for it. Sometimes the answer is that you don't need an adviser at all, and we'll say so.
If we take the case on, you'll know what we're doing, what we need from you, and where things stand. Immigration timeframes are largely outside anyone's control, but being told what's happening isn't.
Talk to us
Book a 30-minute consultation ($99 incl. GST where applicable, credited to your professional fee if you engage us within 3 months), call +64 9 213 1677, or message us on WhatsApp.
Living in NZ — NetworkG Partners Ltd, 300 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021.