Annual Citizenship by grant applications considered under 9(1)(c)

This is a summary of the annual citizenship by grant applications considered under section 9(1)(c) of the Citizenship Act 1977.

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1977/0061/latest/whole.html#DLM443867

9 Grant of citizenship in special cases (1) Without limiting anything in section 8, the Minister may, upon application in the prescribed manner, authorise the grant of New Zealand citizenship to any person, including a person who may be a New Zealand citizen by descent, ... (c) if the Minister is satisfied that granting a certificate of New Zealand citizenship to the applicant would be in the public interest because of exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian or other nature relating to the applicant; ...