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Mar
14
2025

REFORMS TO THE ACCREDITED EMPLOYER WORK VISA (AEWV)

The New Zealand government announced significant changes to the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV), aimed at helping businesses attract the skilled workfo...

Apr
6
2022

THE 2021 RESIDENT VISA

Gaining residence status in New Zealand can be a challenging and rigorous process. Recently, it had also become a very long process, with many applicants wai...

Aug
12
2020

Essential Skills Work Visa Changes

Changes the Government announced last year to improve the employer assisted temporary work visa system came into effect on 27 July 2020. Until that point, a ...

Nov
13
2019

Revised Immigration Rules

The Government has recently announced a re-opening of the Parent Category for immigration purposes, which had been frozen since 2016 and has now been closed....

Mar
25
2019

New ‘Gateways’ For Employers and Migrants

Immigration New Zealand is seeking feedback on its proposal to change work visa settings; to make them more employer-led, and hopefully, more responsive to t...

Feb
11
2019

New Zealand’s Long Term Skills Shortage

IMPORTANT: From June 2018, there have been changes to the work visa system, leaving skills shortages to not be relevant anymore. Please check out the Wakef...

Jul
29
2018

Ever Considered Importing Your Staff?

  With applications for labour-market-tested work visas often taking 60 days or more to process and continuing low unemployment, it’s timely to consider whet...

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