Really?

Submitted by Ken Monks (United States), Dec 22, 2010 at 17:50

"as you should well know, attempting to gain a passport by fraud is considered by the statutes more serious than manufacturing or forging one"

Dear NZ lawyer,

I don't know about that. I always thought the wholesale manufacture of bogus passports (several) was a couple notches worse than fibbing on a single passport application.

But since you're a lawyer, why don't you tell us what the punishment and fine is for a single case of forging a NZ passport, vs. a single case of supplying false information while applying for a NZ passport.

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