{"id":42914,"date":"2023-07-28T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=42914"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T10:37:21","slug":"preventing-the-exploitation-of-migrant-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/preventing-the-exploitation-of-migrant-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing the exploitation of migrant workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"42914\" class=\"elementor elementor-42914\" 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<p>Living and working in New Zealand presents many amazing opportunities and as popularity increases, Immigration New Zealand is aware of employment scams and fraud, experienced by some migrants when being employed in New Zealand.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>This is an unfortunate situation and Immigration New Zealand is therefore working hard to create awareness and encourage any fraudulent is reported.\u00a0 \u00a0Advice from Immigration New Zealand has been developed to help people identify and protect themselves from possible immigration scams and fraud.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>As an immigration agency with extremely high standards and ethics, we want to assist Immigration New Zealand and share their advice which includes:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>How to check for signs of a scam<\/li><li>What to do if you are asked to pay for a job<\/li><li>How to get application priority and access to immigration officers if you are involved in a scam<\/li><li>What to do if you are asked to lie in order to qualify for a job or a visa, told you do not have the same employment rights as a New Zealander, offered a package deal, promised residence and other unusual benefits, told you must use an adviser<\/li><li>Action to take if you are not getting visa application updates<\/li><li>Ways to protect yourself from scams<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Whether you are planning on coming to New Zealand and getting a visa, or you are already working here, please familiarise yourself with the advice you can find on Immigration New Zealand\u2019s website:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.govt.nz\/new-zealand-visas\/preparing-a-visa-application\/protect-yourself-from-immigration-scams?utm_source=Immigration%20New%20Zealand&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=C0202_AdvisorUpdate_Scams_July2023&amp;utm_content=Protect%20yourself%20from%20immigration%20scams%20%7C%20Immigration%20New%20Zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 For any questions regarding this update, compliance concerns for an employer of a foreign worker, or any further immigration matters, please contact Arno Nothnagel, our NZ Immigration Director, <a href=\"mailto:Arno.Nothnagel@absoluteimmigration.com\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><\/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>To prevent people from falling victim to an immigration scam or fraud, we are sharing advice that has been produced by Immigration New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44899,"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":[141,142],"class_list":["post-42914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","tag-employee-exploitation","tag-immigration-scam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42914"}],"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=42914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}