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Nov 13 2020

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In one US-China battle, Americans have taken the lead: ‘golden’ visa applications to New Zealand

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according to data from New Zealand’s Department of Immigration. The share of Chinese applicants slid to 25.4 per cent for April to October this year. To be considered for such...

Nov 13 2020

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Government policy is costing high-performing migrants their jobs

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The Government has partially addressed this by giving six-month extensions of work visas for people already working in New Zealand. But what happens when workers choose to leave their jobs...

Nov 13 2020

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The impossible choice for migrant women who are abused by their partners

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Maria can leave her toddler daughter in NZ with her abusive ex-partner, or launch a lengthy legal battle to try and relocate her overseas.

Nov 13 2020

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Election 2020: Will there be an immigration reset or a new normal?

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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...

Nov 13 2020

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Immigration: Labour manifesto signals significant changes to border, visa rules to ‘get more people in’

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The manifesto signalled an overhaul of partnership visas, reducing barriers to the parent category and reviewing Pacific immigration.

Nov 12 2020

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Father and son overstayers imprisoned after seeking refugee status

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Immigration officers found overstayer Sukhwinder Singh hiding in a cupboard under a bed. He’s now in prison, having claimed asylum as a refugee.

Nov 12 2020

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Election 2020: Will there be an immigration reset or a new normal?

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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...

Nov 12 2020

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

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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.

Nov 12 2020

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Immigration: Labour manifesto signals significant changes to border, visa rules to ‘get more people in’

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The manifesto signalled an overhaul of partnership visas, reducing barriers to the parent category and reviewing Pacific immigration.

Nov 12 2020

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Coronavirus, politics, burnout bringing overseas doctors to New Zealand

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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...