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Immigration NZ ‘facilitating abuse’ of migrant women who can’t leave abusive partners without being deported

Trapped with a violent partner who had convictions for strangulation and threatening to kill her, a migrant woman was told she’d be deported if she left him.
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Immigration: Labour manifesto signals significant changes to border, visa rules to ‘get more people in’

The manifesto signalled an overhaul of partnership visas, reducing barriers to the parent category and reviewing Pacific immigration.
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Coronavirus, politics, burnout bringing overseas doctors to New Zealand

As COVID-19 cases have risen overseas so has the desire of doctors to come to New Zealand’s shores. Medical recruitment agencies have seen huge demand from people wanting to move to the country, …
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New Zealand Partnership Visas: A Common Sense Guide

Best thing couples can do to prevent this is to hire professionals like Malcolm Pacific who specialize in New Zealand visa assistance …
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Working holiday visa holders stuck offshore beg for extensions to entry date

Would-be travellers locked out by New Zealand’s closed borders are begging the Government to extend the entry deadlines on their visas. Almost 23,000 people hold working holiday visas but are yet to …
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Election 2020: Will there be an immigration reset or a new normal?

those on temporary visas. And then at the same time we’ve had a lot of New Zealanders come back to New Zealand so there will be a big shift here – immigration has basically flatlined. “I think we …
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Immigration NZ ‘facilitating abuse’ of migrant women who can’t leave abusive partners without being deported

Trapped with a violent partner who had convictions for strangulation and threatening to kill her, a migrant woman was told she’d be deported if she left him.
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Coronavirus, politics, burnout bringing overseas doctors to New Zealand

As COVID-19 cases have risen overseas so has the desire of doctors to come to New Zealand’s shores. Medical recruitment agencies have seen huge demand from people wanting to move to the country, …
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Working holiday visa holders stuck offshore beg for extensions to entry date

Would-be travellers locked out by New Zealand’s closed borders are begging the Government to extend the entry deadlines on their visas. Almost 23,000 people hold working holiday visas but are yet to …
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New Zealand’s Covid-19 response bringing international doctors to our shores

Figures from Immigration New Zealand showed from 18 October to 10 August there were 80 doctors from India who were granted a critical purpose visa as a health worker, 74 from the UK, 42 from the …