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Hipkins admits Labour 'too slow' to respond to retail crime concerns: The former prime minister believes his party's failings on retail crime ultimately cost it ...
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Hipkins admits Labour 'too slow' to respond to retail crime concerns
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Fake visas and offers to sell jobs - the latest New Zealand immigration scams: The reports of fake visas circulating include one that appears to show the ...
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Fake visas and offers to sell jobs - the latest New Zealand immigration ...
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Immigration New Zealand's perfect storm: A review into a new visa category that sparked more problems than it solved is scathing about Immigration NZ's ...
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Immigration New Zealand's perfect storm
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Immigration - the winners, losers and missed opportunites: Analysis - It took three months to reverse a 'light touch' approach to work visas amids covers over ...
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Immigration - the winners, losers and missed opportunites
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Inside the trial scheme to welcome more refugees to New Zealand: It’s a promising alternative to the standard refugee pathway, but will it be continued?
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Inside the trial scheme to welcome more refugees to New Zealand
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Immigration mistakes made as pressue went on post Covid - Chris Hipkins: Labour Party leaders admits politicians put pressure on officials to speed things up ...
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Immigration mistakes made as pressue went on post Covid - Chris Hipkins
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Accredited Employer visa set for changes 'urgently' - Minister: Erica Stanford says the changes taken to Cabinet in the next couple of weeks will be followed by ...
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Accredited Employer visa set for changes 'urgently' - Minister
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Work visa review: Policy issues still need to be dealt with, say critics: Immigration New Zealand is ignoring concerns that its work visa scheme was allowing ...
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Work visa review: Policy issues still need to be dealt with, say critics
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New Zealand announces new wage thresholds for skilled migrant visa category: When the median wage increases, the wage threshold for the visa categories will also ...
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New Zealand announces new wage thresholds for skilled migrant visa ...
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A group of 16 Vietnamese migrants allegedly paid $203,000 after being promised work and new lives, but arrived to find no jobs and were left with a mountain of ... Show more
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Immigration to New Zealand: Migrant staff shocked following Buildhub liquidation: More than two dozen migrant workers at labour hire company, Buildhub ...
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Immigration to New Zealand: Migrant staff shocked following Buildhub ...
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Nearly 200 employers stripped of right to hire migrants over visa scams: A further 167 are being investigated by Immigration New Zealand over visa abuses.
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Nearly 200 employers stripped of right to hire migrants over visa scams
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Scammers pose as agents to trick potential migrants - Immigration NZ: Potential migrants are being warned to watch out for scam job offers and visas that seem ...
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Scammers pose as agents to trick potential migrants - Immigration NZ
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Resident visa fight over: Why an overstayer has decided to return home: It has been 13 years since Vijender saw his family. “It has been tough,” Vijender says ...
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Resident visa fight over: Why an overstayer has decided to return home
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Million visa decisions made by Immigration NZ in 2023: INZ processed 519,417 visitor visa applications, approving more than 80 percent of them.
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Million visa decisions made by Immigration NZ in 2023
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Over 100 people convinced authorities to let them stay last year. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ye2xvtwf
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Job check delays by Immigration NZ are causing stress - Hospitality NZ: Long delays by Immigration New Zealand (INZ) to conduct job checks for work visa ...
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Job check delays by Immigration NZ are causing stress - Hospitality NZ
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‘Ridiculous’ delays threatening flying schools: Challenges attracting student pilots, including "ridiculous" delays processing foreign student visa ...
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‘Ridiculous’ delays threatening flying schools
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Immigration settings crucial to Auckland’s tech hub aspirations: Feeding the growth of creative, financial and health tech sectors could make technology the ...
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Immigration settings crucial to Auckland’s tech hub aspirations
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Migrant workers settling down slowly after struggling for months: After enduring months in crowded houses without jobs, some workers have finally started to ...
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Migrant workers settling down slowly after struggling for months
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Coalition government confirms pledge to prioritise free trade deal with India: The incoming government also appears to align on issues of crime and immigration ...
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Coalition government confirms pledge to prioritise free trade deal with ...
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Hawke’s Bay police launch probe into migrant trafficking, man arrested for rape: A 44-year-old man has been arrested on three rape charges following an ...
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Hawke’s Bay police launch probe into migrant trafficking, man arrested for ...
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Auckland Airport delays: Huge queues as passenger processing system crashes: Auckland Airport passengers face more delays as an Advance Passenger Processing ...
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Auckland Airport delays: Huge queues as passenger processing system ...
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Indian nurses lead international influx to New Zealand: Almost 50 percent of trained nurses who have registered to work in New Zealand since the country's ...
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Indian nurses lead international influx to New Zealand
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Auckland bar and restaurant owner arrested on migrant exploitation charges: A 53-year-old was arrested Friday after a search warrant was executed at an address ...
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Auckland bar and restaurant owner arrested on migrant exploitation charges
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IELTS One Skill Retake approved by Immigration New Zealand for migration: Test takers will be allowed to retake any one of Listening, Reading, Writing ...
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IELTS One Skill Retake approved by Immigration New Zealand for migration
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Immigration NZ paid for spyware for two years without using it: An Immigration NZ team targeting mass arrivals by asylum-seekers paid for spyware for two years ...
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Immigration NZ paid for spyware for two years without using it
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The Detail: Our messy migration: Self-serving, messy, and directionless. With record numbers pouring into the country, our immigration policies are under the ...
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The Detail: Our messy migration
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New Zealand Jobs: All about temporary work visa for workers: The AEWV has replaced the previous Essential Skills work visa, which required checks on the employer ...
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New Zealand Jobs: All about temporary work visa for workers
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Exploited migrant workers begin to abandon NZ dream: Despite government assistance, some are struggling to secure work due to language barriers and a lack of ...
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Exploited migrant workers begin to abandon NZ dream
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MBIE used intelligence gathering tools to search social media accounts: Documents show a unit of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment used ...
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MBIE used intelligence gathering tools to search social media accounts
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National announces new parent visa category: The new multiple entry parent visa category would be valid for five years and could be renewed for a further five ...
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National announces new parent visa category
Quick Glance: National introduces new parent visa category
  • National plans to introduce a new visa category to make it easier for parents and grandparents of migrants to visit their family.

  • The multiple entry Parent Visa Boost would be valid for five years and could be renewed for a further five years.

  • They would also be required to have health insurance during their stay and would need to meet standard Immigration New Zealand health and other requirements to receive their visa.

  • Allowing migrants to live with their parents or grandparents will help them better integrate into New Zealand by assisting with childcare, providing stability, and offering emotional support.
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Overstayers express concern over Labour’s amnesty pledge: The Labour Party's proposal for an immigration amnesty has sparked mixed reaction among overstayers.
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Overstayers express concern over Labour’s amnesty pledge
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Torn apart by war, kept apart by bureaucrats : The only chance 18-year-old Afghan refugee Arezo Nazari has of bringing her parents to New Zealand is through the ...
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Torn apart by war, kept apart by bureaucrats
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NZ govt warns migrant workers of employment scams amid Immigration review: The government admits it does not know how many migrants might have been scammed ...
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NZ govt warns migrant workers of employment scams amid Immigration review
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Government support announced for scammed migrants in Auckland : A group of migrants scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars for the promise of work in New ...
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Government support announced for scammed migrants in Auckland
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Immigration visa scams: Victims offered job lifeline at Sudima hotels: Six Auckland properties involved have been slapped with insanitary building notices.
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Immigration visa scams: Victims offered job lifeline at Sudima hotels
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RNZ Asia | Immigration New Zealand investigates some residency visa applicants who may pose a security risk. However, some migrants are concerned that national ... Show more
超10万份2021居民签已获批,有中国籍申请人呼吁“国家安全审查应该更公开透明”: 新西兰移民局要求对部分签证和永久居留申请人进行国家安全审查(NSCs),这些申请人可能对国家安全构成风险。然而,一些中国籍申请人担心国家安全审查导致他们2021居民签证审批的延迟,并呼吁审查应该更加透明。
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超10万份2021居民签已获批,有中国籍申请人呼吁“国家安全审查应该更公开透明”
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Couple sentenced over falsified visas, underpaying workers: Vikram Madaan, Susheel Madaan and three Auckland-based companies registered to the family pleaded ...
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Couple sentenced over falsified visas, underpaying workers
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Coming here to work hard for an honest wage, these men now have "no money, no food, and are still alive only because of food donations and help from a ... Show more
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Scammed migrants in Auckland will soon be homeless: A group of migrants scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars for the promise of work in New Zealand will ...
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Scammed migrants in Auckland will soon be homeless
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More migrant work visa scam victims identified: Immigration New Zealand officials investigating the exploitation of Indian and Bangladeshi migrants say they have ...
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More migrant work visa scam victims identified
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We found out why Immigration NZ’s hold music is so bad: Immigration NZ has uniquely terrible hold music. An Official Information Request finally revealed why.
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We found out why Immigration NZ’s hold music is so bad
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Immigration New Zealand raid six properties in fraud investigation, the Government cuts back on consultants and contractors plus job listings fall but why ... Show more
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Buildhub disputes claims migrant workers not given jobs, hours: A group of South American migrants have made complaints about job contracts they signed with ...
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Buildhub disputes claims migrant workers not given jobs, hours
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Indian and Chinese nationals have topped deportation figures since 2018: Nearly half of all deportations from the country over the past five years have involved ...
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Indian and Chinese nationals have topped deportation figures since 2018
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Migrant worker advocates alarmed by increasing calls for help: Advocates for migrant workers are alarmed as more and more people come to them for help ...
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Migrant worker advocates alarmed by increasing calls for help
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200 employers investigated over accredited employer scheme: Immigration New Zealand is looking into nearly 200 employers as it runs a ruler over its ...
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200 employers investigated over accredited employer scheme
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"Kids my age have dreams," he says. "I don't even have a right to have dreams."Dhruv is an overstayer ... Show more
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National wants migrants to pay-to-play: The National Party would increase visa fees and introduce a system where migrants can pay to have their application ...
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National wants migrants to pay-to-play
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Reactions split on the Government’s draft transport plan, why the immigration minister is ordering a review of the work visa scheme and one of the most ... Show more
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Controversial anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, otherwise known as Posie Parker, is set to return to New Zealand in September ... Show more
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Former immigration minister ordered to pay $460k to migrant: Immigration adviser Tuariki John Delamere has lost an appeal over paying a former client nearly half ...
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Former immigration minister ordered to pay $460k to migrant
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A father of two New Zealand children, including a daughter who was born prematurely and needs medical care, is facing deportation after overstaying his visa ... Show more
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Families desperate to reunite: A vast number of refugee applications will likely mean a 10-year delay before two families in Dunedin will be reunited with their ...
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Families desperate to reunite