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The company

Koru is a visa consultancy that focuses on New Zealand immigration.

It is our goal to help people make significant life decisions by giving them sound advice. We work hard to be recognized as a trustworthy, transparent, reliable, and competent source of immigration advice and assistance.

The relationships we have with our clients are central to our business. You can expect high levels of professionalism, personal service, and engagement with a licensed immigration adviser (LIA) in your dealings with us. All visa applications we process are managed by our experienced in-house LIA.

Over the years, we’ve helped dozens of people with their visas and immigration concerns. We’ve had great success with clients interested in:

having a smooth application process

ensuring that the investment they’re making is sound

addressing concerns identified by Immigration New Zealand

re-applying for a visa after having been declined

Koru Adventures & Travel Inc was founded in 2015 and is a Philippine corporation duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Testimonials

I am very grateful to Koru Adventures and the team that helped me to achieve the pathway visa successfully for studying Bachelor of Nursing for 3 years. It would not have been possible without Koru Adventures and I would like to take an opportunity to thank again for the entire team of Koru Adventure and especially Ms. Raphie Amat who put all her effort to make it happen.

I strongly recommend Koru Adventure for Immigration advice and applying any type of visa application. The guidelines, advices for documentation, suggestions that you will get from the team would be most satisfying and successful. They would make an extreme cases so simple to get it success. I had a great experience with the services that they have provided me. Thank you!

Smriti, Student Visa

We are so grateful to Koru Adventures & Travel for assisting us throughout our first journey to NZ! Especially to Ms. Raphie! Me and my mom’s visas were smoothly processed and arranged in just a month or two 😊

They made sure that our visa applications are well managed, making it easier for me and my mom 😃 Miss Raphie answered every question I asked and always made sure that everything is clear and in order.

Thank you so much and we highly recommend Koru Adventures & Travel! 💗

Jinyv, Student Visa

Thank you so much po sa Koru Adventures & Travel sobrang saya po na nag ka chance po kmi mag sama ulit ng partner ko for approve our visa thank you so much po for this. Part of this I will recomended this to all want to get someone or prcossing needs. Thank you po and godbless!! Of course thank you very much for Maam Raphie 🙏🙏🙏 for helping us!! More more bless to come po!

Amber, Partnership-based Visa

I am so thankful to Mam Raphie and the team. I really appreciate all the efforts she had put into my case. She was very professional  and treat me not as client but I feel like I’m a family. So blessed to got my student visa because of her guidance. She is an expert immigration adviser. Again thank you Mam Raphie and continue to help those who wants to turn their migration dreams into reality.

Eileen, Student Visa

We are very grateful for Koru Adventures & Travel especially to Ms. Raphie who gave her all and without a doubt with the visa processing of my brother and his partner.

Ang dami na naming agency na nilapitan like 5 agencies (including the known one) before knowing Koru Adventures & Travel but all of them gave us a negative feedback regarding my brother’s situation like “ang hirap ng situation nila ng partner” “hindi puwede na magkasama sila” “walang course na puwede sa kapatid mo in the greenlist” “sending my brother’s CV - after no reply from the agency” na umabot sa point nawalan na kami ng pag-asa then we came across the list of LICENSED ADVISER sa website ng INZ and we contacted Ms. Raphie. She is very accommodating and well educated with the policies and rules of INZ.

Last minute nga before e lodged visa ng brother ko nag proposed pa siya ng mas maganda na pathway granting my brother and her partner a 3yrs visa.

I highly recommend Ms. Raphie and Koru Adventures & Travel. Kudos to your team and please continue to help individuals who are dreaming to have a new life in New Zealand

Kate, Student Visa

Raphie communicates professionally and adjusts her approach based on the client's needs. She's flexible, especially with long-time clients, and her advice is grounded in INZ rules, offering assurance that what she predicts will likely happen. She also stays in touch with INZ teams to ensure everything progresses smoothly. Their service quality is highly dependable. She handled our student visas for my husband, daughter, and me, as well as our post-study visas.

Mary Anne, Student Visa

Their quick response and positive action on my visit visa extention. With their good representation and justification, INZ grants me another 3 months allowing my stay here in NZ to 12 months which is beyond the reglamentary maximum period of 9 months. Thanks to Ms. Raphie Amat, you're an excellent Immigration Adviser... Looking forward for your services the next time around.

Jesus, Visitor Visa

The Licensed Immigration Adviser (LIA)

Raphaela (Raphie) Amat is Koru’s founder and in-house LIA. She is a highly experienced immigration professional who has been working specifically with New Zealand visas for over a decade.

Raphie previously worked for Immigration New Zealand (INZ). She started out as a Visa Officer and later on took on technical and management roles there throughout a period of over 6 years. She then shifted to the private sector and established Koru in 2015.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts in Consular and Diplomatic Affairs, De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde (2007)
• Graduate Diploma in New Zealand Immigration Advice,  Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (2017)
• Licensed Immigration Adviser since 2017
• Trained and accredited by International Standards Education Agents (2019)

Raphaela Amat
Licensed Immigration Adviser
Licence #201700549

IAA NZ

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