Immigration tasks 'highly unusual' team with visa processing

Immigration tasks 'highly unusual' team with visa processing
Lately, visitor visa demand has been around three times higher than expected. (Image: Getty)
Jem Traylen
An “incident management team” has been tasked with speeding up visa processing at Immigration New Zealand (INZ).The National party revealed the team’s existence during a debate on the immigration portfolio’s budget at parliament on Tuesday.Immigration minister Michael Wood said the unit had been set up within the past week and would enable Immigration to tap into resources from the wider Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), which Immigration NZ falls under.BusinessDesk has obtained an email from Immigr...

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