Govt grants 6-month reprieve to work visa holders

Govt grants 6-month reprieve to work visa holders
Brent Melville
Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has announced short-term adjustments to working visa settings, providing a reprieve to an estimated 17,000 migrant workers until early 2021. Immigration New Zealand’s said the six-month extension to temporary work visas due to expire this year will affect some 16,500 essential skills workers currently in the country. Shifting the 12-month ‘stand down’ period by six months to February 2021 will affect about 600 lower skilled workers, including 113 dairy farm employees. The stand-down period refers...

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