Migration to New Zealand

Immigrating to New Zealand
Due to its upcoming economy and efficient health and education systems, New Zealand has become one of the most appreciated places to migrate for immigrants, manly, for those who come from asian countries.

Nowadays, many developed countries have seen themselves forced to limit the access to their territories to immigrants from various parts of the world. However, before this situation, a new alternative for those people who seek better opportunities has appeared. New Zealand opens up its doors to skilled immigrants, who due to their training are able to automatically enter to this country.

New Zealand is one of the countries that are part of Oceania. This country – which is formed by a series of islands of diverse sizes – is also known as aotearoa, in Maori. Wellington is New Zealand’s capital, but the most important city in this country is auckland.

Now, one of the main reasons for which New Zealand establishes favorable policies towards skilled immigration is because it has a reduces population, which is unable to satisfy the demand for skilled work force, therefore, it must be covered by foreigner skilled immigrants, especially from asia.

The most important migratory program in New Zealand is the Residence Program. Since the year 2007, the migratory authorities of this country give near 50 000 visas per year. The New Zealand’s Ministers Council is the authority in charge of checking the applications and attending them according to the work force needs in their laboral market, as well as the country’s capacity to hold immigrants.

The quota of the Residence Program is distributed in the following way: 60 % for skilled immigrants (professionals or technicians), 30 % for cases of familiar reunifications and 10 % for humanitarian visas or international asylum. besides from the Residence Program, the government of New Zealand has also established the Temporal Immigration Programs, which gives away temporal work visas for a maximum period of time of three years, but it can be renewed.

Due to the constant internet scams from which immigrants, who wished to obtain a residency visa, have been victims, the government of New Zealand has hired immigration consultants, who guarantee the success then proceeding a visa application in most cases (95 %).
Processing a permanent residence visa can take between 6 and 12 months, while the work or study temporal visa, and the familiar reunification visa, can be obtained in a period from 3 to 6 months.
Immigrants, who obtain their permanent residence visa, have a year to go to New Zealand, while immigrants who have obtained the temporal residence visa, must enter the country according the time it lasts.

It is important to mention that immigrants, who have a permanent residence visa that provides them more than two years to stay there, have the right to use the unemployment health care provided by the government of New Zealand. On the other hand, temporal residents (working or studying) must access to a private health care. To request the New Zealander citizenship, the immigrant must have resided in New Zealand for, at least, 5 years.

Finally, those people who wish to travel to New Zealand and remain there for a maximum period of three months do not need a visa. The only thing they must do is show the migratory authorities their return ticket, their valid passport and count with, at least, 1000 dollars for each month they are going to stay in New Zealand.

Summing it up, obtaining a permanent residency visa in New Zealand depends from the immigrant’s technical and professional capacities, as well as from the guidance of a licensed immigration consultant.

 

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