This 3-hour end-of-year intensive brings together leading experts to deliver the latest updates on the Parent Boost, Golden and Business Visas, covering new policy settings, early application data, and evolving medical and character considerations. Gain clarity on what’s working, where applications are facing challenges, and what’s next for 2026, so you can guide clients confidently into the new year with a clear understanding of the shifting immigration landscape.
Friday, 14 November 2025
Chair:
Marcus Beveridge, Managing Director, Queen City Law
AIP and “Acceptable Investment”: What Advisers Need to Know
A step-by-step approach advisers should take when a client applies for the active investor plus (golden) visa
Presented by Bradley So, Director, Queen City Law
Parent Boost Visa
- Early lessons from initial applications and outcomes
- Emerging risk areas and developing trends
- Preliminary data
- Key considerations for advisers as the policy evolves
- What to expect in 2026
Presented by Katy Armstrong, Principal, Into NZ
Managing Medical Waivers and Character Issues in Parent Boost and Golden Visa Applications
- Basics on navigating health, medical waivers and character issues
- Application of health, medical waiver and character issues to Parent Boost and investor applications
Presented by Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh), Partner, Ashcroft, Mitchell, McGregor
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to guide clients step by step through the Active Investor Plus visa process
- Understand key rules for the Parent Boost visa, including medical insurance, common reasons for refusal, and what changes may be coming in 2026
- Learn how to spot and manage medical and character issues that could affect visa applications and how to handle waiver requests
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Katy Armstrong, Principal, Into NZKaty Armstrong is a fully licensed New Zealand immigration adviser. Originally a Barrister in London followed by a stint as human rights lawyer in Guatemala, Katy made New Zealand her home from 1998. Katy has strong practical as well as legal advocacy skills. She is a frequent speaker on New Zealand immigration issues. Katy is also a contributing author of the 2014 New Zealand Immigration & Refugee law textbook. In 2014, Katy was part of a working group whose advocacy led to the re-opening of over 450 partnership cases decided by the New Delhi Branch of Immigration New Zealand.
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh), Partner, Ashcroft, Mitchell, McGregor
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh) is a Partner at Ashcroft Mitchell McGregor and regularly acts for employers to help with immigration matters. He has over 7 years of work experience in the immigration sector including experience in the areas of global mobility, corporate immigration, investor migration and expertise with complex New Zealand immigration matters. Shoosh is a member of the Law Association Immigration Committee and is an author for Thomson Reuters Human Rights Law resource. You will find Shoosh "a great guy to deal with". He enjoys working with government officers and is a critical thinker with an insightful legal mind.
Marcus Beveridge, Managing Director, Queen City Law
Marcus Beveridge is the Managing Director of Queen City Law NZ Limited. His main areas of practice are construction and property law, commercial law, foreign investment, real estate services and immigration. Marcus has developed expertise in business-based immigration and has acted on literally 100's of successful business-based immigration applications over the best part of 3 decades. Many of these clients have subsequently become major clients of his firm. The total amount of business immigration funds invested in NZ in the last decade is close to NZ$10 Billion. Marcus is a regular commentator on immigration based issues on national Radio & TV and has presented and chaired many NZ Immigration Law conferences over the years. Marcus has also recently been on several Working Groups and Immigration Reference Groups liaising with senior INZ management about assorted immigration issues. His firm comprises one of NZ’s largest immigration law teams. Marcus was formerly Chairman of NZAMI and Convenor of the New Zealand Law Society Immigration Committee.
Bradley So, Director, Queen City Law
Bradley So is a Director at Queen City Law and he manages the immigration team. He specialises in business migration and foreign investments. He has represented significant employers and ultra-high net worth individuals. His clients have invested in excess of $500 million in New Zealand and he has assisted multinationals with their immigration requirements.
