Please Please Help!!!!

That breaks my heart, and I agree it's completely disgusting, I'll be writing a letter and sending it tomorrow, I hope that they see sense and allow the parents to stay here with their children and not force them back to the slums

I think it is a horrible position to be in & I would not be able to leave my kids nor want to take them somewhere where like would be a struggle.

But with saying that I don't understand how they could be overstayers for 7 years. They have been in the country 11yrs & their oldest is 8 so I wonder why the did not get citizenship or knew they would not be allowed it. If that was the case they would of know what would happen if they stayed without the right to & so I would question why they would have children here if they were not going to be allowed to stay as the problems would of been know to them.

Have they worked here, how do they get their money? If they are in employment & paying there way then their employers may have been able to sponsor them. It does not say.

NZ does a lot to take in refuges & home a lot of people we pay out a lot in benefits & healthcare etc. I get annoyed as it seams a few cases are thrown in the media to rally up support to keep people here by tugging on heart strings but do not divulge all information.

Before writing a letter I would want to know the history & what they have contributed to NZ.

my4beauties wrote: It is an awful situation for those poor children who have no choice in the matter, it was their parents doing that's put them in this position.

100% agree!

But if we think about the children's best interests I think this is a no brainer!

...who knows why they over stayed? Maybe it was to give their kids a better life....

I say let them stay.    

They have overstayed for 7 years... the oldest is 8 - so they weren't overstaying when that child was born but they were when the 6 year old twins were. I think if they are going to be deported and want to take the children with them, the children should be allowed to give up their NZ citizenship so they can at least get citizenship in India - as India doesn't allow dual cit and NZ doesn't let minors give up cit so at the moment if they go with their parents they have get access to funded healthcare etc in India...

I get what you are saying freckle but I wonder why they did not get or were allowed residency or citizenship. I also would like to know in the 11yrs they have been here how they have supported themselves & there family. How did they pay for the births of their children as it would not of been free for them.

ETA just wanted to add if they have had the money to stay here for 11yrs without our assistance & birth 3 children then surly they have the money not to live in the slums in India.

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clover wrote: I tend to agree with the majority,it is a crap situation but the line has to be drawn somewhere. Otherwise, come to NZ, have a baby and we'll let you stay.....

I think the law has now been changed - but because they were born here before 2006 (I think it is) they have NZ citizenship..

clover wrote: I tend to agree with the majority,it is a crap situation but the line has to be drawn somewhere. Otherwise, come to NZ, have a baby and we'll let you stay.....

Not true. Babies born in NZ now have to have a citizen (or resident?) parent in order to get citizenship. So it's only kids born before then who have citizenship.

ETA. Whoops, this is what happens when I leave the page open for ages before replying! Freckle beat me to it.

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Yeah sorry I did know that, I was just being a little sarcastic.

I'm trully saddened by such a lack of compassion for children.

Talking as someone who has been through the residency process and dealt with immigration i can assure you that it's not a simple process and that the information given out from one person to another differs (the exact same way it does when you speak to different people at IRD or any other gov department), and I speak English as my first language, it would be even more confusing if you didn't.
Perhaps they didn't realise when they had their first child, for which they were legally in nz, that that child would be an NZ Citizen not an Indian one, perhaps she was already pregnant when they found on the problems around citizenship with their existing child and that if they returned to India their child would not get healthcare or education. It said they have been working with immigration and not hiding from them, so maybe they have just been here overstaying for so long because the government has spent that long messing them around? I don't know, but if they weren't hiding and they've over stayed for 7 years there was obviously good reason for that happening and I don't think it's as black and white as some people think.

So crafty what would you do? take your children with you back to a country where they would live in substandard conditions with no access to healthcare or education, or leave them here to be raised by foster carers? I'm not sure how these parents can step up and take responsibilty when neither choice is a good one for the children. And if I was in this situation I would so go to the media, I would do anything and everything I could to try and get a better outcome for my children, which is what I believe these parents are doing.