When people are currently in New Zealand, and circumstances in their region of their home country have changed to the extent that they may not be able to return immediately (for example natural disaster, an outbreak of contagious disease, civil war), please consider this when determining an application made to enable them to remain in New Zealand. Best Practice - Follow the instructions below: [...] consider all such requests on a case by case basis view sympathetically requests for a longer stay where the person is from an affected area use the discretion available in temporary instructions where you judge this is appropriate ensure AMS notes show in sufficient detail why a further visa was granted (e.g. rather than further visa for humanitarian reasons state further visa issued because the customer is from the area affected by the recent earthquake in the Philippines and has requested a longer stay with family in New Zealand until it is safe to return home).