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Working holiday visas extended, immigration reset delayed

Working holiday visa-holders will have their visas extended, but critics say it makes a mockery of a much-hyped immigration reset.
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Visa Extension A Life Raft As The Broken Immigration System Sinks

This morning’s announcement that around 10,000 working holiday visas and supplementary seasonal work visas will be extended for another six months is a temporary reprieve for workers, but fundamental …
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Working holiday visas extended, new spaces in MIQ for vets and dairy farm workers

The Government has moved to try to address worker shortages by further extending the stays of those on working holiday and seasonal work visas, and opening more spaces in managed isolation for dairy …
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Immigration New Zealand hires 100 as Beijing office shuts

Immigration New Zealand shed more than 300 jobs overseas as it shut branches in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but recruitment was put on hold due to financial constraints.
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New Zealand still not opening files on ‘resettled’ alleged former Nazi emigres

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff supplied a list of 50 suspected war criminals decades ago, but successive governments keep classified the immigration documents that could implicate them …
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Biloela family not approached about resettlement in US or New Zealand, lawyer says

Ministers have discussed possible resettlement of Tamil family detained on Christmas Island but family’s lawyer says they have ‘not been approached’ …
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New Zealand still not opening files on ‘resettled’ alleged former Nazi emigres

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff supplied a list of 50 suspected war criminals decades ago, but successive governments keep classified the immigration documents that could implicate them …
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New Zealand seeks rich investors, high-skilled labour in immigration reset

PM Jacinda Ardern says the country’s reliance on temporary workers has suppressed wages and put pressure on infrastructure and housing.
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Immigration New Zealand hires 100 as Beijing office shuts

Immigration New Zealand shed more than 300 jobs overseas as it shut branches in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but recruitment was put on hold due to financial constraints.
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Accreditation needed under new work visa rules

Employers with migrant staff are facing what the immigration ministry says is the biggest change to work visas in a …