This is good news for all communities said Caroline Ryan Licensed Immigration Adviser. Greater participation encourages more interesting, diverse and accepting communities.

INZ states a key component of the programme is the Welcoming Communities Standard. This ‘provides councils and communities with a benchmark for what a successful welcoming community looks like’.

The eight elements of the Standard are:

Inclusive Leadership

‘Local government, tangata whenua and other community leaders work together to create, advocate for and continue to foster a welcoming and inclusive community. They lead a shared plan to increase connections between newcomers and existing residents.’

Welcoming Communications

People of all cultures and backgrounds feel included, listened to and well informed through a range of ways that take into account their different communication needs.

Equitable Access

Opportunities to access services and activities and to participate in the community are available to all, including newcomers.

Connected and Inclusive Communities

People feel safe in their identity and that they are connected with and belong in the community. There are high levels of trust and understanding between members of the receiving community and newcomers.

Economic Development, Business and Employment

Communities maximise and harness the economic development opportunities that newcomers can offer. Councils work with business associations to promote the contribution that newcomer business owners and skilled migrants make to the region’s economy.

Civic Engagement and Participation

Newcomers feel welcome to fully participate in the community. Newcomers are active in all forms of civic participation.

Welcoming Public Spaces

Newcomers and receiving communities feel welcome in and comfortable using public spaces.

Culture and Identity

There is a shared sense of pride in being part of a culturally rich and vibrant community. People feel their culture is respected and valued by other members of the community. There are opportunities to learn about each other’s cultures.

Led by Immigration New Zealand in partnership with the Office of Ethnic Communities and the Human Rights Commission, the programme has a resource called the Welcome Mat to be used by councils and communities as they develop Welcoming Plans.

Recent migrants, former refugees and international students will all benefit from the programme as they are welcomed to participate in all aspects of community life with locals thereby building connections and contributing to a flourishing community.

Many innovative welcoming activities are already underway including Turban Day in Tauranga, Neighbours Day in Ashburton, a flag-raising ceremony in partnership with the Indian community in Southland to celebrate Indian Independence Day, and many more to welcome and include all ethnicities.

An important outcome of the initiative is that ‘different cultures are celebrated and people are supported to express their cultural beliefs and customs, including language and religious practices’ resulting in connected and inclusive communities.

If newcomers are felt included, their skills, knowledge and experience help build a stronger local economy which everyone can benefit from.

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From October 2019, visa applicants only need to provide a Notarised Police Certificate with their visa application.  Both the Local Police Clearance letter and a Notarised Police Certificate were previously required by Immigration New Zealand.

Applications submitted from the beginning of October will be affected by this change. This is welcome news said Caroline Ryan Licensed Immigration Adviser as It is mandatory now to submit only a Notarised Police Certificate.

As stated by INZ ‘Police certificates are official documents issued by the police or a government agency. Based on official records and checks, they provide information about any criminal record you have.’

Police certificates are evidence to INZ of an applicant’s good character and are required if that applicant is over 17 years old and dependent on what visa they apply for and how long the applicant is planning to stay for.

Often more than one police certificate is required apart from the home country if the applicant has lived elsewhere for a certain amount of time. You will need a certificate from any country you have lived in for more than five years.

Individual circumstances dictate whether an applicant will need to supply another police certificate when reapplying for a visa.

As well, applicants for residence visa under Partner of a New Zealander or Dependent Child instructions can re-use police certificates from a previous application, if that certificate is less than 24 months old.

However, this does not apply to the supporting partners in Partnership applications – supporting partners will have to submit a Police Certificate that is less than six months old.

Police certificates are sometimes called criminal checks, police clearance certificates or penal records. In some countries police certificates are called Certificates of Penal Records, for example Argentina. In Italy they are known as a General Certificate of Good Conduct. In Australia you need to request a Police Certificate and fingerprint check. In Canada you need to request a Certified Criminal Record Check based on fingerprints. A certificate of no criminal conviction is requested in Hong Kong.

Translations of police certificates must be supplied with a visa application. Immigration New Zealand are currently considering making English translations mandatory for all supporting information. INZ will provide more information when a decision is made.

Confusion most often arises about how old a police certificate can be, and within what timeframe it can be submitted for an application.

Often a further police certificate will have to be provided if the processing of the visa extends beyond the life of the police certificate. INZ may ask for further police certificates if your initial police certificate becomes a year old from its date of issue. For different applications there are differing requirements. For example a residence visa requires a police certificate from the applicant’s citizen country and any other country where they spent 12 months or more over the last 10 years — even if that 12 months was not all in one visit.

Whatever the visa application, in all applications, Police Certificates are all about being able to show an applicant is of good character.

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The recently announced upcoming visa system will require all employers to be accredited and will replace six current employer-assisted work visa categories with one new visa called the Temporary Work Visa.

Caroline Ryan Licensed Immigration Adviser said ‘some proposed changes are not yet confirmed but possibly will be phased gradually over the next 18 months’.

This will mean that employers who are currently known as Accredited Employers who make job offers to immigrants who wish to transition to residence through their Work to Residence (Talent Visas) are required to offer a salary of $79,560 or greater for a 40-hour week, an increase from $55,000 per annum.

Those holding the Work to Residence visa or who have applied for this visa before 7 October 2019 based on a salary of $55,000 will not be affected and can still apply for residence after holding this visa for 24 months with an accredited employer.

After 2020, Immigration NZ will assess job offers based on pay rates. Jobs paying less than $52,000 per annum for a 40-hour week will be regarded as low skilled.

High skilled workers will have to earn over 200 percent of the median wage, currently this would mean being paid $104,000, to apply for residence after they have worked in New Zealand for two years.

To ensure there are no New Zealanders available to do a job before it is offered to an immigrant, there is a Labour Market Test and now under these changes,

• employers will be required to state the wage or salary in their job advertisements
• provide information about low-paid jobs to MSD, and
• accept potential workers referred by MSD for a low-paid job — although there are some exceptions.

The last changes will be implemented by 2021. The Work to Residence pathway will be gone by 2021.

Immigration New Zealand by introducing these changes aim to improve the temporary work visa system by ensuring that foreign workers are only recruited for genuine shortages, while also providing incentives for employers to employ and train more New Zealanders.

INZ says the changes will benefit employers by providing:

• A more streamlined process for small businesses and businesses that represent low immigration risk;
• Increased certainty earlier in the process for employers wanting to recruit foreign workers;
• A system that takes into account the difference in labour market needs between different sectors and regions.

The new employer-led visa application process will involve three stages: the employer check; the job check; and the worker check.  Once an employer is accredited, the job check will then assess whether the job the employer is seeking to recruit for is genuine, consistent with New Zealand standards and that the labour market test is satisfied.

Other changes include the Government removing the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) from the assessment of skill level for the new Temporary Work Visa and will differentiate jobs by their remuneration rather than by their occupational skill level. INZ says this change will simplify business processes and make rules clearer and more transparent for user of the immigration system.

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Recent changes to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority are ‘designed to better meet the needs of applicants and end users.’

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is the government agency responsible for New Zealand Qualifications, and for assessing qualifications gained overseas to determine the equivalent level in New Zealand terms.

The Qualification Recognition Services (QRS), a team within the NZQA, assesses qualifications awarded outside of New Zealand. As explained by Immigration New Zealand, ‘For a qualification that was gained at an overseas tertiary institution to be eligible for points under the Skilled Migrant category, it must be recognised through one of the following: your qualification is included on our List of Qualifications Exempt from Assessment, or you have full or provisional registration and your qualification has been assessed by a New Zealand organisation authorised by law to issue occupational registration as being comparable to a New Zealand qualification on the List of Qualifications Exempt from Assessment’.  

On the 9^th December 2019 an updated suite of products, a new fee structure and a new online application portal for the recognition of overseas qualifications, will be introduced. The upcoming changes are outlined on the NZQA website. Caroline Ryan Licensed Immigration Adviser said the changes will include discontinuation of the PAR (the pre-assessment result) which was introduced when processing an IQA took several months. 

NZQA says ‘Now that an IQA is completed within 25 working days, the rationale for the PAR no longer exists’.

There will be a price change to the Overseas Study Assessment (OSA) which will cost less. However, there will be a cost increase for a Review of an IQA, which ‘reflects the considerable time and resources required to review an IQA. The fee is refunded if the initial assessment is found to be incorrect’. IQA will include one qualification, and specific add-on options will be available for those who intend to teach in New Zealand or require an assessment against skill shortage list requirements.

Through the newly designed online application web portal applicants will be able to register and apply for QRS products, view submitted and draft applications and download their results statement directly from their online dashboard. The current dashboard will be available until 9 June 2020.

The QRS is also responsible for issuing quality recognition statements. NZQA says ‘the IQA Recognition Statement will remain the same. You will be able to verify the authenticity of assessment reports issued in that format through NZQA’s website’.

The Qualification Recognition Services Document Verification can be used to verify the results of the International Qualifications Assessments (IQAs) and Overseas Study Assessments (OSAs). As NZQA explains ‘this service verifies the authenticity of the NZQA assessment results not the authenticity of the overseas qualification itself’.

There will be no agent accounts in the new application system. NZQA says you will need to submit a normal application under your client’s name but will be able to enter agent details during the application process so NZQA is aware you are an agent.

Completed and ‘in-flight’ applications will still be able to be accessed until 9 June 2020 through agent accounts.

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An increase in applications has caused the residence visa category to be oversubscribed Immigration New Zealand has said.

Adding to this, Residence visas need greater scrutiny than most applications. 120 officers were working on residence visas, but it could not say how that compared to previous years.

Latest figures show the Government has slashed resident visa numbers to the lowest seen in the last two decades. Compared with temporary visas which are at their highest point ever. An increase in applications has caused the residence visa category to be oversubscribed.  However, numbers remain at 12,000 under its already-lowered maximum target of 60,000 new residents by the end of the year resulting in the number of residence visas to hit a 10-year low.

This seems to be a result of Immigration New Zealand being “ordered” to cap residence numbers as reported in previous media articles. The sharp dive in residence numbers started with changes made by the previous National government.  It was harder for people to become residents when Immigration New Zealand increased the number of points that skilled immigrants needed to get to become residents.

A restructure at Immigration New Zealand, coincided with visa volume rises compounded this. Delays in processing has also contributed to this.

Almost 35,000 residence visas and 246,705 work visas were approved in the year to September. While the number of residence visas being approved hit a 10 year low in the 12 months to September, the number of work visas hit a 10 year high.

Although residence and work visa approvals have shown strong trends up or down, student visa approvals have remained generally consistent at around 100,000 a year for the last ten years. International education is still a big business.

Higher rates of pay are now one of the reasons officials are fast-tracking some applications.

However, with the latest announcement opening up lower-skilled occupations, this will create more of a backlog.

Australia is to ‘fast-track’ permanent residence for highly-skilled tech migrants.

A newly established permanent migration scheme called the Global Talent Independent Program (GTIP) for highly-skilled technologists will target seven “future-focused fields”, including cyber security, fintech and quantum computing, in a bid to maintain Australia’s competitiveness.

New Zealand needs a scheme like this where highly skilled migrants have pathway choices. The program’s aims to lure up to 5,000 high-income earners working “at the top end of their field” to Australia between July 2019 and June 2020 with the offer of a ‘fast-tracked process to permanent residency”.

In May of this year Immigration New Zealand created a process to respond to escalation requests for urgent allocation for employment related visas (and associated family members) for both Temporary Work Visas and Skilled Resident visas. A mailbox was set up for this new initiative Employment Visa Escalations (EVE) to be monitored and actioned by a team of dedicated Immigration Managers who will assess these requests for escalation. A request for escalation will be assessed by the following criteria: compelling personal circumstances, humanitarian factors, and matters of national interest.

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From 1 October 2019, visitors from visa-waiver countries must request a New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority (NZeTA) before travelling to New Zealand. This includes children, citizens not required to have a visa to enter New Zealand and anyone who is only passing through an airport on their way elsewhere.

Caroline Ryan, Licensed Immigration Adviser said the New Zealand Government now also requires you to pay an international Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy (IVL). The IVL costs NZ$35 and is processed and payable when you apply for your visa or NZeTA.

Some visitors and transit passengers can travel to New Zealand without a visa if they get an NZeTA before they travel.

The NZeTA is valid for many visits and up to 2 years. You can:

• Travel to New Zealand without first applying for a visa – if you are from a visa waiver country, a cruise ship passenger or a permanent resident of Australia.
• Pass through Auckland International Airport as a transit passenger on the way to or from Australia.
• Pass through Auckland International Airport as a transit passenger on the way to another country – if you are from a visa waiver or transit visa waiver country.
• Get someone to help you with your NZeTA request – you will need to tell them about your criminal conviction history and whether you are seeking medical treatment in New Zealand.

INZ notes that if you are from a visa waiver country you must hold an NZeTA before you travel; allow up to 72 hours for processing, but it could take as little as 10 minutes; An NZeTA request costs NZD $9 on INZ app or $12 if completed online; you pay an international Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy (IVL) at the same time as your NZeTA which costs NZD $35.

Once you have requested an NZeTA you can check its status.

You do not need an NZeTA if you:

• Are a New Zealand citizen travelling on – a New Zealand passport, or a foreign passport that has a New Zealand citizen endorsement
• Are an Australian citizen travelling on an Australian passport
• Hold a valid visa for New Zealand, including a Permanent Resident Visa

Immigration NZ has already received more than 200,000 electronic visa applications from travellers in light of border control measures which were announced in August. Additional staff have been put into INZ’s Border Operations and Identity Services teams and into the Immigration Contact Centre in order to manage enquiries and requests.

The measure is designed to strengthen New Zealand’s border security and prevent people travelling here who are considered a risk to the country’s safety by identifying them well before check-in.

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Caroline Ryan, Licensed Immigration adviser said New Zealand attracts well over 100,000 people a year and for good reason one being that violence and crime are less of an issue here.

New Zealand has recently been named the second most peaceful country in the world in the Global Peace Index, way ahead of Australia.  Although our location isolates us from the rest of the world’s troubles, Australia had increased its military expenditure and weapons imports resulting in a lower score than New Zealand.

The report ‘measures the “peacefulness” of 163 countries with a range of measures including military spending and deaths from conflict and terrorism, as well as an estimated economic cost of violence’.

Apart from New Zealand’s scenic beauty, there is a unique culture, a great work/life balance, wonderful climate for outdoor living, excellent educational standards, affordable living costs and investment/entrepreneur opportunities. New Zealand also has a long tradition of relatively calm political debate.

New Zealand has become a very culturally diverse country. From the 1980s noticeably a wide range of ethnic groups have been encouraged to settle here and New Zealand is now much more multicultural.

Hindi is the fourth most common language in New Zealand, after English, Māori and Samoan.

New Zealand has a migrant settlement strategy which supports recent migrants to settle well. The Strategy provides for settlement information and services to support migrants in five areas:

• Employment
• Education and training
• English language
• Inclusion
• Health and wellbeing

There are many different areas to choose where to live in New Zealand. Different lifestyles, job opportunities and services are variable across the regions and cities.

Migrants are helped by the Settlement Strategy to choose an area that suits their skills and expectations.  All areas have the same unique features that make New Zealand stand out in the world. 

Northland is a popular place to live with its sub-tropical climate and scenic beauty. Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city is the country’s commercial hub and one of the world’s most liveable cities. The Waikato, base of the dairy industry is a rich agricultural and pastoral area. Gisborne with its beautiful forests is popular for surfing and fishing and a centre for wine and agriculture. The Bay of Plenty has some of the country’s most fertile land while the Hawkes Bay with its extensive vineyards and large orchards is renowned for its horticulture.

Wellington, a compact city is built on dramatic hills with a deep water port and beautiful waterfront.

And that is just the North Island.  The South Island boasts dramatic mountains and rivers, remote beaches, vast plains, national parks, majestic scenery and unique cities full of character.

Wherever migrants settle they will notice a vibrant country which although inherited much from its British settlers, has established its own identity away from the settlers with a focus on its relationship with Pacific and Asian neighbours and has continued successfully to retain its reputation as being one of the most peaceful countries in the world.

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Between 1947 and 1975, a total of 77,000 women, children and men arrived from Great Britain under the assisted immigration scheme. Smaller numbers came from the Netherlands and some other European countries. Assisted migration had a significant role in shaping New Zealand.

Non-British immigrants in particular introduced new customs, foods, ideas and practices, and together with later arrivals helped form modern New Zealand society which gradually filtered down into everyday Kiwi life.

Caroline Ryan, notes that New Zealand cuisine has been inspired by the foods of immigrants, expectations of global tourists and the new ideas of New Zealanders returning from overseas travel who have sampled the foods and dining styles of Britain, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. They created a demand for better quality food and more variety.

To Dutch immigrants, who brought us cheeses, wines, delicatessen small goods and Vogel bread, and were used to dining in cosy restaurants or outdoor courtyards with tables arranged on footpaths, the dining scene seemed bizarre. They set out to bring in new ideas around the ideas of dining out and producing food. Restaurants began taking on a new look and the variety of foods produced began to expand to feed this demand for new dining. The number of cheese types New Zealand produced leapt from 15 to over 70, as small craft cheese makers such as Kapiti, and large factories have revived ancient techniques. 

Other Europeans were influential as well. Italians brought their language, food and customs to New Zealanders who have been influenced by and attracted to the health benefits of pasta and pesto as part of a Mediterranean-style diet. New Zealanders began to realise how suitable our climate was for growing Mediterranean foods, and our home cooking began to reflect this. Many farmers diversified into growing olives and avocados. Other ‘exotic’ foods like French pate and ratatouille have been popular now for decades. The Middle Eastern cuisine also became fashionable, introducing new foods such as hummus, halloumi and tabouleh and, in more recent years, chickpeas which are now mainstays of our diet.

Food in New Zealand is now is more imaginative, sophisticated and multicultural, and there are many restaurants, gastro pubs and cafés in the major cities and towns that present a variety of classic and ethnic menus.  The stylized, expensive restaurants reminiscent of the eighties have lost some ground though as there is huge competition from café-style ethnic restaurants – Indian, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian to name a few.

Many New Zealanders travel frequently to Australia, where in the last few decades food habits have changed to eating dishes influenced by the Mediterranean and Southeast Asian styles of cooking, which subsequently has influenced the way New Zealanders cook and eat.

Now New Zealanders expect to be able to buy a choice of culturally distinct ingredients to prepare a selection of culturally diverse recipes. Detailed information is available on the internet regarding preparation, cooking, service, and eating of food and drink of other cultures.  Ingredients for many ethnic dishes have become much easier to source in major cities, mostly through specialty or ethnic food stores started by many of the post-1987 migrants to New Zealand, but now also through New Zealand supermarket chains.

However, in spite of all the international influences, our New Zealand cuisine is still largely driven by local ingredients, seasonal variations, our agricultural industry and historical Maori culture, meaning our traditional kiwiana cuisine is still alive and well and sits comfortably alongside international foods.

Home baking is perhaps the only preserve which on the whole has remained ingrained in ‘Kiwi’ cooking and consequently, many a home baker is still fixated on producing the perfect pavlova, a favourite iconic New Zealand dessert.

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More than 35,000 people are waiting for a residence decision, the highest number since 2011. Residence approvals are also at the lowest levels since the turn of the century despite a sharp increase in applications.  The number of residence applications rose sharply from a low of 15,000 in April last year to 35,000 last month, according to figures from the INZ website.

Caroline Ryan, Licensed Immigration Adviser said that Immigration New Zealand is also struggling to process a backlog of applications for temporary partnership visas. Even applicants’ extended temporary visas were now expiring, increasing costs for applicants and causing major difficulties and problems for them.

INZ has said ‘there had been no attempt to slow visa processing but that New Zealand continues to be an attractive destination and application volumes have been increasing steadily across all categories’. INZ claims they are also seeing an increase in the level of risk and complexity in applications, including different risk factors.

Skilled immigrants waiting for residence visas say they feel ‘in limbo’ as decision-making timeframes ‘blow out’ amid political calls for lower immigration numbers. Immigration New Zealand says an increase in applications has caused the skilled migrant category of the residence programme to be oversubscribed. However figures show the New Zealand Residence Programme is still 12,000 under its already-lowered maximum target of 60,000 new residents by the end of the year. 

Immigration figures show at least one in 10 will wait more than 13 months and a quarter more than nine months. Immigration New Zealand said 120 officers were working on residence visas but it could not say how that compared to previous years. High pay is now among the reasons why officials are fast-tracking some applications.

INZ says some of the factors for processing delays are strong economic growth and low unemployment. These factors have ‘increased demand for migrant workers at all skill levels’. INZ also says a large number of applications are incomplete, requiring extra work. Many applications are missing extra information such as: medical information, police certificates, employment agreements, or the ANZSCO code. ‘About 50 percent of onshore Essential Skills Work Visa applications need more detailed assessments. These can include matters relating to the applicant, employer or labour market test’.

The interim visa which is granted up to six months is a bridging visa to keep people lawful but is no longer enough for immigration officers to finalise applications. These interim visas are now expiring, impacting on many people’s lives. In most cases where the visa being applied for is different to the visa the applicant previously held, the interim visa will revert to visitor conditions. Visitor conditions do not allow the visa holder to undertake employment, meaning applicants will need to stop work until their new visa is issued which has serious consequences. Interim visas also have no travel conditions, meaning if an applicant wishes to travel out of New Zealand they will not be able to re-enter on the interim visa, but must wait until the new visa has been issued.

Processing delays have put a strain on applicants finances, relationships and mental health. Families are being kept apart and the visa processing delays have also affected businesses that are waiting on employees to get visas. Students cannot begin their courses and people waiting for residence cannot buy homes.

Immigration New Zealand said it has changed its systems and added staff in an effort to improve processing times.

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Caroline Ryan, Licensed Immigration Adviser said, ‘This announcement from the Government is good news that parents can again join their adult children in New Zealand’.  INZ said there will be a cap of 1,000 parents to join their children each year.

A single person sponsoring one parent needs to earn twice the New Zealand median income – about $106,000 a year.  If sponsoring two parents, $159,000 a year.

Joint sponsors for one parent will increase to $159,000 a year and $212,000 a year if sponsoring two parents.

All changes have now been announced on Immigration New Zealand’s website.  Caroline Ryan, Licensed Immigration Adviser said, ‘New applicants will be able to submit new EOIs in February 2020 when the visa reopens’.  If you have an existing EOI, you can either:

• Update your EOI to meet the new requirements; withdraw the EOI and apply for a refund of your EOI fee; or leave your EOI in the queue – if you think you will meet the visa’s new requirements.

There will be changes to the visa.  Immigration New Zealand are

• Limiting the number of people who can get the visa each year to 1,000.
• Changing the financial requirements that sponsors and applicants need to meet, and
• Changing the 2-tier system to a single system

The visa will reopen with new financial requirements that applicants and sponsors must meet.

New Zealand Immigration will update the income levels for sponsors each year based on the New Zealand median income.

The current median income is NZD $53,040.

If your sponsorship is based on your personal income, you will need to earn before tax:

• NZD $106,080 to sponsor 1 parent
• NZD $159,120 to sponsor 2 parents.

If you are using both you and your partner’s income, you will need to earn between you:

• NZD $159,120 to sponsor 1 parent
• NZD $212,160 to sponsor 2 parents

Applicants can submit new expressions of interest from February 2020 when the visa reopens as it is temporarily closed until then in order that INZ can prepare their systems for the new requirements. New EOIs will begin to be selected in May 2020.

INZ has said that existing residence applications are not affected.  ‘If you have made an application for a Parent Resident Visa, it will be assessed based on the visa requirements at the time you applied. This means that Parent Resident Visa applications we were processing on the date of the announcement will be assessed based on the criteria that applied to the previous Parent Resident Visa’.

There are other visa options available to parents and grandparents.  Parents of New Zealand citizens and residents can apply for residence under the uncapped Parent Retirement Resident Visa.  INZ says applicants need to be able to invest specific amounts of money in New Zealand.

Parents and grandparents can also apply for a Parent and Grandparent Visitor Visa. This is a 3-year visa that comes with multiple-entry travel conditions.

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