{"id":42866,"date":"2023-07-20T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=42866"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:39:36","slug":"registrations-are-opening-for-pacific-access-category-samoan-quota-in-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/registrations-are-opening-for-pacific-access-category-samoan-quota-in-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"Registrations are opening for Pacific Access Category &#038; Samoan Quota in NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"42866\" class=\"elementor elementor-42866\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e7cc16f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e7cc16f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a6d0a78\" data-id=\"a6d0a78\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46b4b332 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46b4b332\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/h6><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #767171;\">NZ Immigration has announced that the Pacific Access Category (PAC) and the Samoan Quota (SQ) ballots will open 1 August 2023 and close 31 August 2023.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #767171; font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Both annual ballots will be drawn in early October 2023<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #767171; font-size: 11pt; font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">The two schemes will enable people from Samoa and Tonga,<\/span><span style=\"color: #767171; font-size: 11pt; font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Tuvalu, Kiribati and Fiji to become permanent residents in New Zealand.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><b>Samoan Quota (SQ)<\/b><\/span><\/p><h5><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #767171;\">The maximum number of SQ visas available is:<\/span><\/h5><ul><li>1,650 Samoan citizens each year to 2025<\/li><li>1,100 Samoan citizens each year from 2026 onwards<\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><b>Pacific Access Category (PAC)<\/b><\/span><\/p><p>The maximum number of PAC visas available for 2023 is:<\/p><ul><li>\u2022 500 Fijian citizens150 Kiribati citizens<br \/>\u2022 500 Tongan citizens <br \/>\u2022 150 Tuvaluan citizens.<\/li><\/ul><p>The maximum number of PAC visas available for 2024 onwards is:<br \/>\u2022 250 Fijian citizens each year<br \/>\u2022 75 Kiribati citizens each year<br \/>\u2022 250 Tongan citizens each year <br \/>\u2022 75 Tuvaluan citizens each year<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><b>Invitation to apply<\/b><\/span><\/p><p>People who are successful on the ballot and are invited to apply for a PAC or SQ resident visa will have eight months to submit their application<\/p><p style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: #767171; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 128;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">_<\/span><\/p><p><strong>For any questions regarding this update, compliance concerns, or any further immigration matters, please contact Arno Nothnagel, our NZ Immigration Director, <a href=\"mailto:Arno.Nothnagel@absoluteimmigration.com\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Immigration has announced that the Pacific Access Category (PAC) and the Samoan Quota (SQ) ballots will open 1 August 2023 and close 31 August 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[137,138],"class_list":["post-42866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","tag-pacific-access-category-pac","tag-samoan-quota-sc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866","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=42866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}