With the start of the new Financial Year upon us on 1 July 2019, the Department of Home Affairs has announced an increase in application fees of 5.4% for most types of visa.<\/p>\n
Another change effective 1 July 2019 concerns working holiday visas. From this date, there will now be an option to apply for a third year long visa on the basis that the applicant has completed 6 months of work within a specific area during their second year. As a result, this means that these applications cannot be lodged until January 2020.<\/p>\n
Finally, the immigration intake has been released for the 2019\/2020 program year. This sees a reduction from 190,000 in 2018\/2019 to 160,000 in 2019\/2020. That said, given that only approximately 162,000 visas were granted in 2018\/2019, so the impact of this may be minimal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Investment opportunities in New Zealand continue to grow as the New Zealand Government target businesses, investors and entrepreneurs as they focus on rebuilding their economy through investment and immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","tag-working-visa-australia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n