Fifteen people were granted New Zealand citizenship at a ceremony in Queenstown on Friday by Mayor Vanessa van Uden.
The new citizens (back, from left) are Stephen Kent, Shane Woolridge, Alan Swann, Nicholas Eyre, Paul Grieves, Matthew Tilley, Laura Harris, Jenna Evans and Kezia Evans, all formerly of the United Kingdom, and Shai Lanuel (Israel/United States); and (front, from left) Karin Kent (UK), Liane Kuperstein Ingberman, with 2-year-old Sofia Hogan (Brazil), Amanda Woolridge (UK), Ms van Uden, Juliana Trinidad Bossini Tudgay (Brazil) and Andrew Fisk (South Africa).