{"id":25103,"date":"2022-03-10T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=25103"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:53:03","slug":"nz-working-holiday-visas-open-on-14-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/nz-working-holiday-visas-open-on-14-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Working Holiday Visas Open on 14 March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Sunday 13 March, 11.59 pm, applications will be open for a range of working holiday schemes in New Zealand. The opening will be a staged approach with various schemes being opened on particular dates that will be confirmed by Immigration New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a skilled worker it may be easier to be granted an &#8216;other critical worker&#8217; border exception.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are now eligible if you earn at least 1.5 times the median wage (NZD $84,240 a year or NZD $40.50 an hour) for roles longer than 6 months.<\/li>\n<li>If you are classified as an &#8216;other critical worker&#8217; who meets the 1.5 times the median wage bright line test, you are no longer required to demonstrate that your skills are not readily obtainable in New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li>The highly skilled family reunification border exception is aligned with the 1.5 times the median wage bright line test for &#8216;other critical workers&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The border is now open to New Zealanders and other eligible travellers coming from anywhere in the world and you do not need to self-isolate when you arrive.<\/p>\n<p>This means you can travel to New Zealand isolation-free if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are eligible to enter the border while it is restricted, including if you have a border exception<\/li>\n<li>Meet health requirements, including being fully vaccinated and getting pre-departure tests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For any questions or assistance, please get in touch with our team of experts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"mailto:Arno.Nothnagel@absoluteimmigration.com\">Arno.Nothnagel@absoluteimmigration.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sunday 13 March, 11.59 pm, applications will be open for a range of working holiday schemes in New Zealand. The opening will be a staged approach with various schemes being opened on particular dates that will be confirmed by Immigration New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-new-zealand"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52722,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103\/revisions\/52722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}