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Editor's Insight: Citizenship is too valuable to be given away for nothing

A new analysis of immigration suggests the costs of becoming a New Zealander be defrayed by sponsorship.

Mon, 30 Jan 2017

The government has said New Zealand citizenship is not for sale and has defended – albeit with some reluctance – its decision to grant it to American technology billionaire Peter Thiel in 2011.

While the prime minister and the then minister of internal affairs, Nathan Guy, say they don't know

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