{"id":7584,"date":"2020-04-16T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T02:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coffeeobsession.com.au\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2023-10-20T05:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:17:40","slug":"new-zealand-relaxes-visa-conditions-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/new-zealand-relaxes-visa-conditions-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand relaxes visa conditions during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New Zealand relaxes visa conditions during COVID-19<\/h2>\n<p>Effective from today, 16 April 2020, the New Zealand Government has relaxed visa conditions for a temporary period of time to allow temporary migrant workers and international students to further assist with essential services during the COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>This will assist essential businesses that are still operating to continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Employer-specific work visas<\/p>\n<p>The changes mean that temporary migrant workers who hold an employer-specific work visa and are already employed in essential services can now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vary their hours and be redeployed to do other roles within their current workplace.<\/li>\n<li>Perform their current role in a different workplace to help essential businesses keep operating while New Zealand remains at Alert Level 3 or 4 and for six weeks after that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>International students<\/p>\n<p>As of today, international students who are already employed in an essential services role:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can work longer hours for their current employer while New Zealand remains at Alert Level 3 or 4 and for six weeks following.<\/li>\n<li>If they wish to work more than 20 hours they must still meet their study requirements and should discuss their plans with their relevant education provider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any amendment to an employee\u2019s conditions of work must still be compliant with normal New Zealand employment law and the individual or collective employment agreement relevant to the employee.<\/p>\n<p>Applying for a Variation of Conditions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People holding interim visas are not able to apply for a Variation of Conditions.<\/li>\n<li>No fees or levies are payable for a Variation of Conditions under this special category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information including the relevant form needed to apply visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.govt.nz\/about-us\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Zealand Government website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective from today, 16 April 2020, the New Zealand Government has relaxed visa conditions for a temporary period of time to allow<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7584","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\/7584","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}