An immigration adviser convicted of fraud has failed in his bid to avoid deportation.
Chheogyal Lepcha had his licence cancelled in 2011 for rubber-stamping four applications prepared by someone who was not an official adviser, not knowing that some of them had been falsified.
The 28-year-old was fined $9000, ordered to pay almost $8000 to two of the people affected, sentenced to 300 hours of community work and faced deportation.
He appealed, claiming that his wife and three-year-old son would remain in New Zealand if he returned to India.
But the Immigration and Deportation Tribunal has ruled that immigration fraud is serious and it would not be unduly harsh to deport him.
