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Skilled Migrant Residence – More Traps for the Unwary
There are many ways to slip up in the Skilled Migrant application process for NZ Residence. Your whole application can be declined solely because you did not declare some minor crime - no matter how small. A recent enquiry which I received highlighted the dangers. ...
Employers Tripped Up by Essential Skills Visas
Employers are coming to us for help because they can't keep the same migrant workers whom they have come to rely upon for the success of their business. Their job hasn't changed, but Work Visas that used to be approved without too much trouble are now being declined...
“Guard Pacific’s triple star” – at any cost!
I've just seen something really stupid. It came in the form of leaflets dropped in their hundreds nearby the recent WOMAD Festival at New Plymouth by a group calling itself Right Wing Resistance. The leaflets call for people and supplies in order to mount an Armed...
Skilled Migrant Residence – It’s Hard, but Easy Too
If you're thinking about applying for Skilled Migrant Residence, there's one big message here - get a job offer first. Then, so long as you score 100 points, put your application in. Technically, you can start the Skilled Migrant process without a job or an offer of...
It’s here – the new Business Visa Policy
Further to a previous post giving early warning of the sudden shut-down of the Long Term Business Visa policy in December 2013, the new replacement Instructions have now been unveiled. They open on 24 March 2014. It's a points-based system in which you have to score...
The Dope on NZ Border Control
I just heard something really stupid. It's a story about how telling the truth to the wrong people can be dangerous. Someone from a well-known European country - a country that made it to the semi-finals of the 2011 Rugby World Cup - was in New Zealand on a Working...