Over 10,500 Brits have registered with Immigration New Zealand since the UK voted to leave the European Union in May.
The number of people who registered on the day of brexit was nearly 10 times higher than the day before – 998 compared to 109.
Professor Paul Spoonley, from the country’s Massey University said he was “not surprised by the spike”.
He claimed applicants were “tired of narrow-minded Britain”.
“Brexit is the push factor and it confirmed the exclusive or narrow nationalism of the UK, of some at least,” he told the New Zealand Herald.
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