{"id":28076,"date":"2022-04-21T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=28076"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:29:27","slug":"nz-to-expand-working-holiday-scheme-with-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/nz-to-expand-working-holiday-scheme-with-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ to expand Working Holiday Scheme with Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is currently in Singapore and announced the relaunch and expansion of the Working Holiday Scheme with Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>From 5 May 2022, the following changes will be made to the scheme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of working holiday scheme visas available to Singaporeans rises to 300 from 200<\/li>\n<li>The age of eligibility is extended to 18-30 years of age<\/li>\n<li>The Visa length is extended to 12 from 6 months, and<\/li>\n<li>Applicants no longer need to be university students but must have undertaken tertiary study in the previous two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Scheme was part of the Singapore New Zealand Enhanced Partnership announced in May 2019 but the global Covid pandemic prevented it from being operationalised.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><strong>For further information on this announcement or if you require assistance, please get in touch with our expert NZ team.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is currently in Singapore and announced the relaunch and expansion of the Working Holiday Scheme with Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28076","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=28076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}