{"id":36306,"date":"2022-11-21T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=36306"},"modified":"2023-10-20T05:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:45:40","slug":"2021-resident-visa-prioritisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/2021-resident-visa-prioritisation\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Resident Visa prioritisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Miles Holden<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Immigration New Zealand has announced they will prioritise processing of eligible 2021 Resident Visa applications for those applicants that have been separated from their partners and\/or dependent children who are currently offshore.<\/p>\n<p>For applicants who would like to reunite with their families, certain criteria need to be met to have their 2021 Resident Visa application prioritised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><strong>Prioritisation criteria<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The criteria for prioritisation include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The family member must be overseas<\/li>\n<li>The relationship must have been established before COVID-19 restrictions were introduced in 2020<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The application is at \u2018Under assessment\u2019 or at a later stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Requests for prioritisation can only be actioned for urgent processing when the application reaches the \u2018under assessment\u2019 stage as key checks including identity, character and possible health checks must be done before the requests.<\/p>\n<p>If you are eligible for priority processing but your application has not yet reached the \u2018under assessment\u2019 stage, you can still request prioritisation and this will be allocated for assessment once it reaches the \u2018under assessment\u2019 stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have any questions regarding this announcement or have any immigration enquiries, please contactArno Nothnagel, our NZ Immigration Director, <a href=\"mailto:Arno.Nothnagel@absoluteimmigration.com\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers who hire foreign skilled migrants take on responsibilities and obligations under New Zealand\u2019s immigration and labour laws. Getting familiar with your responsibilities is crucial so here are some key points to keep in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[76,77],"class_list":["post-36306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","tag-2021-resident-visa","tag-2021-resident-visa-prioritisation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306","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=36306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}