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Immigration and Employment law in New Zealand When you recruit and hire migrant workers, you must comply with employment and immigration laws.  Under these laws, employers have certain responsibilities and obligations. Employers are legally able to offer a job to an overseas candidate before they have a work or resident visa, but by the time […]

Hiring overseas workers Hiring overseas workers can seem like a real challenge for employers.  Recent proposed changes to work visas have made many employers uneasy.  However, we still have plenty of employers that we assist on a daily basis who simply can’t find the talent that they need onshore.  Here are some simple rules to

Employer-assisted work visas The upcoming changes to the New Zealand immigration system will affect almost every person who holds or intends to apply for an employer-assisted work visa. A central feature is that all employers wishing to employ a migrant worker must first get one of three types of accreditation status with Immigration New Zealand

Immigration New Zealand’s (INZ) processing delays can easily lead to confusion and stress for applicants. Recent publicity around the increasing delays reminds us that, while delays have always been a fact of life, we’ve now reached a crisis point for many applicants and employers. Some categories have delays of between four and five months (as

“New NZ immigration targets slow visa processing” Richard was interviewed by Radio NZ about how visa processing times are being manipulated to engineer fewer approvals and meet Government residence targets. Immigration New Zealand says it is not allocating case officers to some residence applications for more than five months. Ministers will decide later this year

Immigration New Zealand’s services have become inefficient and substandard after it shut down drop-in centres, Richard was interviewed by Radio NZ noting that Immigration New Zealand’s decision to close its global offices, and its front counters here, is putting pressure on contact centre staff, essentially making it hard for people to get the right advice. 

Read about our client’s story of overstaying in New Zealand and their 20 year fight for residency. A client’s story of how she became illegal in New Zealand. Her case illustrates the brutal reality of ‘behind closed doors’ decision making by Immigration New Zealand, published by Radio NZ on 17 September 2018 Contact Pacific Legal

View comments from Richard Small to RNZ about the dumping of a controversial deportation tool by immigration NZ. Immigration New Zealand appears to have scrapped data and predictive modelling work it did to prioritise deportations.  View comments from Richard Small to Radio New Zealand, 06 July 2018 Contact us for help!

Discover the current immigration situation and its impact on the Indian community in New Zealand. In response to what appears to be a crackdown on visas, with official figures showing a sharp increase in the number of work visas being rejected for Indian applicants over the last four months. Listen to an interview Richard Small has

Immigration Specialist Richard Small speaks to Larry Williams on Mike Hosking Breakfast (NZ’s number one breakfast show) Kiwifruit worker exploitation only the tip of the iceberg