Nearly 13,000 key residence visa applications are among the mountains of paper-only files at New Zealand for which processing is at a virtual stand-still in the current upper alert levels in Auckland.
Month: September 2021
Preetham Gayam went into financial hardship while waiting for Immigration NZ to approve his application so he could start a higher-paying job.
The government has backed itself into a corner on immigration and is set to announce long-awaited residence changes this week, according to the National Party.
New Zealand is losing nurses because of immigration rules that make them feel “unwelcome and in a permanent state of temporariness”, the Government has been warned – a situation that piles pressure on …
The Nurses Organisation has written to Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi asking for urgent reform to help fill a “critical shortage” of nurses, made worse by Covid-19. The letter says one major problem …
A group of about 20 former interpreters who worked for New Zealand have been gathering outside parliament in a bid to talk to the PM …
Preetham Gayam, a chef, switched jobs but can’t start until his employer-linked visa is approved. He and his family are living on food parcels as they wait.
Immigration froze residency applications processing in Auckland’s lockdown . Tens of thousands of permanent resident applications have been on ice during lockdown. Des …
An Afghan man waiting to know if he could get a visa to join family in New Zealand has been killed trying to flee to Pakistan, a source says. A member of the man’s family had helped the Defence Force …
Currently people applying to live and work or visit New Zealand have to be of an “acceptable standard of health”.