“While COVID-19 put the brakes on this year, immigration is likely to be a growth area in 2021,” the firm says
K3 Legal has allied with major NZ immigration company Pathways to New Zealand Ltd in a bid to address the anticipated boost to the immigration industry in 2021.
“While COVID-19 put the brakes on this year, immigration is likely to be a growth area in 2021 as essential workers, highly-skilled migrants, some international students and investor migrants increasingly look to head to New Zealand,” the firm said.
According to Statistics NZ, New Zealand saw a net influx of 11.4 migrants per 1,000 population in the year to June 2019; in the same period, Australia saw 6 migrants per 1,000 population while the UK and the US recorded 4 migrants.
Thus, K3 Legal said, the alliance enables both K3 Legal and Pathways to “offer additional support to benefit both of their client lists.”
“In addition to our extensive Kiwi clientele, K3 has a lot of international clients, so if anyone needs expert immigration advice we will now be referring them to Pathways,” K3 Legal director Edwin Morrison said.
In turn, K3 Legal would offer legal, accounting and business services to Pathways clients.
“All we do is New Zealand immigration work so K3 Legal will now refer to us any front-end immigration work, such as all types of visa applications, and people facing any immigration difficulties. And, in return, we will send them any legal work that eventuates off the back of that, such as employment, property, commercial or relationship property matters,” said Richard Howard, managing director at Pathways.
K3 Legal and Pathways had been collaborating effectively on several initiatives for around a year, but heightened demand drove the forging of a closer alliance, Morrison said.
“We’re two businesses at the top of our respective games, and we’re looking forward to our alignment offering clients an even better and more seamless experience,” he said. “Given more than 40% of Auckland residents are born overseas and New Zealand is increasingly seen as a safe haven, we expect a lot of growth in 2021.”
