Skilled Employment vs Recognised Relevant Work Experience
The words ‘Skilled Employment’ are often used for both skilled employment and relevant recognised work experience. Both words are mainly used in resident visas instructions. What’s the difference then? What about Work (temporary) visas, offers of employment and work experience? Resident visa Skilled Employment Skilled employment is solely used in a resident visa context. It […]
Employment rights
Every migrant sooner or later has to deal with employment and employment rights. For those wanting to apply for a work visa it is essential that they have a job offer. For others, for instance people applying for a visa via the Family Stream or people applying for a resident visa, it is not always […]
Work visa types
A work visa is a work visa, right? Not quite. All work visas will allow you to temporarily work in New Zealand. There are over 15 different subtypes of work visa. There are 3 main types of work visa Open work visa Job search work visa Employer Assisted work visa Open work visa An open […]
Celebrate christmas like a kiwi
Celebrating Christmas in New Zealand will be a different experience to what you would do at home, especially when you live in the northern hemisphere. The Christmas celebration arrived with the early European settlers, with Dutch explorer Abel Tasman celebrating the first Christmas in New Zealand in 1642. Since then, it was slowly integrated into […]
Be honest
Two recent, but very different cases have brought the attention to the importance of being honest when applying for a visa. The first case was from two people, both from Fiji, who applied separately for a resident visa based on their relationship with a New Zealand citizen. The woman was granted citizenship but the man’s […]
New Zealand permanent resident visa and resident visa; what’s the difference?
One of the most confusing issues in New Zealand visa jungle is telling the difference between a New Zealand permanent resident visa and a resident visa. Immigration New Zealand have done a pretty good job of making this as complex as possible. So I’m going to explain it to you and hopefully simplify the whole thing in […]
new entrepreneur work visa – how does it work
Summer is continuing into fall for now. Warm days and not a lot of rain. Farmers began to worry. The soil in large parts of the country is apparently is dryer now then during last year’s dry spell. Wine makers and grape growers are embracing the weather conditions. Last week they got a scare in […]
immigration new zealand – back to the future
A while ago I was present at a meeting where the current Minster of Immigration, Michael Woodhouse, talked about the challenges and opportunities that he is faced with. Policy wise, changes will keep happening. Like the newly released Entrepreneur work and residence visa policy. He was clearly very proud of his first big policy overhaul. There […]
greener grass
Why do people migrate? The answer in most cases is a longing for change. Something in your home country isn’t working. This was the case for me and my husband. We were looking for the proverbial ‘greener grass’. And we found it. We came to New Zealand three years ago on a residence visa and […]
why not?
How do you make the decision to go for it (or not)? Well, you could make a list with the pros and cons but how do you weigh ‘not seeing your grandkids grow up’ against ‘a better climate’. The short answer: you can’t. Or if you have seven reasons listed on the ‘GO’ side of […]
