If you’re a Kiwi trying to get home—either to visit or to live—you need use the government’s ‘Managed Isolation and Quarantine’ website.
The website is a “lobby” and “queue” system where, currently, more than 25,000 people vie each fortnight to get one of approximately 3,000 rooms.
In short, it’s not a lobby, nor is it a queue, it’s a lottery.
Although I’m grateful New Zealand has been a haven from COVID for the past 18 months, it’s really frustrating that there are tens of thousands of Kiwis trying to get home, with the vast majority of us not being able to.
I get a weird feeling when I look at my passport. At this moment in time, it can get me into almost any country on earth, except the one I was born in. And that feels wrong.
