The History of Sunrise Immigration Services

Ms. Genoveva Evelyn Ramos, Founder

Ms. Ramos at her graduation ceremony

Sunrise operates as a Limited Company with its registered office at 17 Glenpark Place, Favona, Auckland 2024 New Zealand.

Sunrise was born to reduce the risk of people being fooled by unscrupulous immigration consultants. Ms. Ramos, fresh from her Masteral degree from Auckland University New Zealand, started and registered Sunrise Immigration Services in Auckland with zero capital, she prepared a business plan, looked for funding. She received a small funding from the New Zealand Ministry of Social Services.

Genoveva Evelyn Ramos, as Human Rights Advocate and New Zealand Social Worker has had several years of direct contact with prospective clients and migrants who have been ripped off by unscrupulous consultants. This has fanned the need for an immigration consultancy of high social and moral standing.

Sunrise provides these types of immigration services to legitimate migrants. During the first 4 years of its operations, solely run by Ms. Ramos (with occasional help from Sunrise successful clients, who called themselves Sunrise Tribe member), achieved its goal of facilitating more than 700 (still growing) immigrants to New Zealand.

Our Founder's Commitment

Sunrise has a very strong policy of professionalism, honesty, and humane dealing with clients as Ms Ramos seriously says:

"We are dealing with the lives of people, they trusted their future to us, it is our moral duty to response to that trust."

Genoveva Evelyn Ramos says:

"I never for a moment divorce myself from the people. I taught my children to be responsible to the people who trusted us, who came to us with faith that we can help them."

"My duty is to hold myself responsible to all Sunrise clients. Every word, every act and every policy must conform to moral and social commitments. For me, Human Lives are important than capital; that is what being responsible to the people means."

Professional Background

Genoveva Evelyn Ramos is devoted to protecting the principles of Human Rights. Prior to coming to New Zealand, Ms. Ramos (Gennie Hernandez Sta Maria) was for more than 10 years a broadcaster and the Manager of DWAR Radio in Cabanatuan City Philippines.

Ms. Ramos has natural talent in writing, she was the Editor of the Mayumo, San Miguel High School official papers. She publishes extensively on various women, human rights in the Philippines and has talked on radio and television on the issues. Philippine Migrant Centre is producing a Newspapers called ANG FILIPINA where she has a permanent column.

She attended Auckland University in New Zealand, where she completed BA (Bachelor of Arts), BA (Honours) and Master of Arts in Sociology. She has Diploma in Community and Social Work and a Diploma in Journalism. In her Master thesis research, she has spent considerable time in the University of the Philippines and abroad and was exposed with the grassroots.

She was the Chairperson of the Philippine Migrant Centre-Auckland and women rights advocate. This has included serving as advocate for abused Filipino women and children in New Zealand. She represented many Filipinos on delicate immigration appeals.

Before forming Sunrise Immigration Services Limited, Ms. Ramos was a New Zealand Social Worker and Youth Worker, working for the New Zealand government's Child Youth and Family. As human rights advocate, she successfully worked on deportation matters before the immigration tribunal, deportation board and Residence Review Board. She worked on Filipino women's cases using New Zealand Domestic Violence Act.

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