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On 21 December, Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi announced a six-month extension for employer-assisted work and working holiday visa holders along with their partners and children in order to address New Zealand's labour shortage. In addition, a 12-month stand-down period for low-paid Essential Skills visa holders working in New Zealand for ...
In 2005, the Fifth Labour Government established the Pacific Division to improve visa and immigration services in the Pacific Islands and for Pasifika peoples living in New Zealand. In 2009, a report by the Controller and Auditor-General identified a range of problems including poor leadership, mismanagement, lack of accountability and ...
In terms of immigration policies, the Government scrapped the requirement for African and Middle Eastern refugee applicants to have relatives who were residing in New Zealand and ending a partnership visa policy that discriminated against Indian arranged marriages. [74] [75]
Responsibility for immigration to the UK ultimately lies with the Home Office, which is currently led by Mr Cleverly, a Conservative. Labour has not been in charge of the Home Office since it was ...
New Zealand's government attracted 173,000 non-citizen migrants in 2023, more than double what officials forecast in May 2023. New Zealand will require visa applicants to speak English as its ...
Tobias Phibbs of the Common Good Foundation and Blue Labour praised the speech, saying that "across Europe, social democrats are leading the way in reasserting a world of nation-states and borders" and that "ending the deliberate policy of mass immigration is a rejection of the free market lie that human beings are fungible units that can pass undifferentiated across the smooth surface of the ...
The post-WWII immigration included more people from Greece, Italy, Poland and the former Yugoslavia. New Zealand limited immigration to those who would meet a labour shortage in New Zealand. To encourage those to come, the government introduced free and assisted passages in 1947, a scheme expanded by the National Party administration in 1950.
The government has been forced to relax immigration rules for construction workers after it was warned that new Brexit red tape is causing labour shortages on building sites.. Bricklayers, roofers ...