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Immigration migration must cease and desist from being *********. They conveniently avoided mentioning their scope of responsibilities on employment matters in their reply. IM is evasive on employment matters.

I will quote verbatim bullet points in the contract that are the basis of my arguments, highlighting services provided by IM:

IM has the responsibility to assess clients’ situations with integrity and offer professional services according to their circumstances. My assessment was not comprehensively dealt to ensure I progress beyond the first huddle for 8 months. I am convinced this flawed assessment report was only adopted for financial reasons.

This point obligates IM to find work for me through webinars or maybe any other way. Finding work is an integral part of the process of getting a work visa. Naturally, for work visa applications, IM knows that if there is no job offer letter there is no migration program to talk about.

The provision, to me after payment, of the list of various New Zealand employers by IM only confirms monetary motives behind every move they make. Employment agents and Labour brokers also provide such a service but they only receive payment upon successful completion of the task from employers. The hours spent by IM on trying to guide me through their employment seeking techniques proved futile and IM does not deserve any payment for trying.

This bullet point is explicit that IM will continue working with the client until they are successful or a refund fees. Success is finding employment leading to migration. Unfortunately the later cannot be achieved without the former. IM has failed to guide me to find employment in 8 months. (Ref to attachment below) IM guidance failed to yield any results, they cannot expect a payment for failing. IM did not expect me to travel to New Zealand and walk from one company to another seeking an interview. I paid R75k for guidance to a seamless migration process. To IM it’s business as usual since they have already pocketed their “considered earnings” and are not worried about any failure of the application.

This clause very clear that IM should act on behalf of the their clients on immigration and employment applications. (refer to an email extract below from IM)

It is also worth noting that for all the man hours IM purport to have spent working on my application, almost all the hours were spent on job hunting, employment related issues. Why then should they spend so much time on matters they are not responsible for?

Furthermore, it does not make sense, for a company that says it does not assist to find a job, that after an assessment, a person seeking employment opportunities in New Zealand is deemed to have qualified for an migration program, even without a job offer letter. Accordingly IM should simply disqualify that person since it does not assist on employment matter. Instead IM receives a payment and embarks on a pretentious job hunting crusade that may or may not succeed. If it succeeds, all accolades to IM but if it fails, IM accepts no responsibility but brings out clauses to blame the client for not understanding their limitations on the scope of employment matters.

I want South Africans to understand the creature IM is so they do not fall in the same trap as myself.

Muzanzi should be aware of the requirements of the visa program they are applying for and not to rely on evaluation by the socalled migration experts.

Immigration migration is obligated by a clause in their contract: To assess a client situation

Before taking their money, IM has the responsibility to assess their clients’ situations with integrity and offer professional migration advice according to their clients’ divergent circumstances. In my situation, I intended to settle in New Zealand on a work visa permit. With now IM claiming that they do not to assist their clients to find employment, but only assist on other unspecified employment matters, IM should have immediately disqualified me on the basis that I did not possess the necessary employment documents for the visa I intended to apply for, and that their policy does not allow them to assist me to look for work to get those documents. Instead for monetary reasons, IM adjudged that I qualified and therefore I paid R75k for the process to commence. And the process stalled for 8 months. A comprehensively done assessment can just not stall at the first huddle without a plausible explanation, unless of course if the process is a consequences of a flawed assessment report. The adage garbage in garbage out aptly applies.

Beware and be alert

Update on my Immigration Migration review

Mzanzi, numbers don’t lie.

The Immigration Migration contract that I signed contains 2 stages of processes to complete the Work Visa migration program.

Stage 1 charges are reflected in the agreement as NZ$ $6000, equivalent to R75k at the time I paid. This stage requires that IM assists me, through coordination of their complex web of processes, which build up, to secure News Zealand Work Visa requirements for me to proceed to Stage 2, for the migration application process to commence. Successful completion of this stage is reflected in progression to Stage 2.

Stage 2 charges are quoted at NZ$3000, payable after the work visa migration process is successfully completed. This stage depends solely on successful completion of Stage 1. No job, no work visa application and therefore, no Stage 2.

At the date of my cancellation, the process had stagnated on Stage 1 for more than 8 months with no prospects of success. After cancellation, IM claimed that the cost of the work they performed amounted to NZ$10 550. Surprisingly a statement of “work performed” attached on the same submissions had a totalised bill of NZ$12 625, creating serious suspicions that the numbers are doctored to deceive. Both amounts are inflated. Projected costs for a completed Stage 1 is NZ$6000. If an incomplete process can almost double the initial projected amount, I shudder to think how much a final successful Stage 1 process eventually cost, NZ$20k?? Or maybe IM inflates invoices as a form of punishment for cancellation.

Lastly, IM proposes that I renounce my Hello Peter reviews so that they can reward me with a donation of NZ$1000 as a sign of a good gesture. Even that amount does not correlate with the work they put into the uncompleted Stage 1.

Update on my case, I am now in possession of a default judgment against Immigration Migration and the sheriff has a warrant to attach property but Immigration migration seems to have deleted their last known SA address….. The sheriff need to locate their address if someone could assist

Update on my caseUpdate on my case

After receiving information on the current address Immigration Migration operates from, the sheriff proceeded to that address only to find the company operating in a “crucible” not even having assets to the value of the money they owe me. They are allegedly operating more like con artists without a permanent place.

A Mr Sean Collins, ostensibly from Immigration Migration, sent me an email after my last hello Peter post incoherently implying that Immigration Migration was unaware of the court case but now that he was aware he intended to resolve the issue asap, but up to now he has not contacted me as per his promise.

Let it be known to their New Zealand handlers, whose bank account I deposited my money into, that there is a subsisting court judgment against Immigration Migration here in South Africa for my refund.

Update on my case

After receiving information on the current address Immigration Migration operates from, the sheriff proceeded to that address on 31 March 2025 only to find that the company operating in a “crucible” and has no assets to the value of the money they owe me. The Sheriff’s assessment suggests that they operating more like con artists than a reputable international company.

A Mr Sean Collins, ostensibly from Immigration Migration, sent me an email after my last hello Peter post incoherently implying that Immigration Migration was unaware of the court case and now that he was aware he intended to resolve the issue asap, but up to now he has not contacted me as per his promise.

Let it be known to their New Zealand handlers, whose bank account I deposited my money into, that there is a subsisting court judgment against Immigration Migration here in South Africa for a refund.