Bureaucratic inflexibility

Stuff reports:

A French family is waiting to hear if they can remain in New Zealand after being told their business didn’t perform as expected during the pandemic.

Last month Julien Debord, his wife Sophie and their two young children were told by Immigration New Zealand (INZ) that they wouldn’t get visas because their business, Cafe Tennyson, hadn’t met revenue and staff targets set before the pandemic.

How ridiculous. They face being deported because during a period where the entire country was locked down and businesses were unable to open, their case didn’t meet pre-pandemic revenue targets!