{"id":8622,"date":"2021-08-31T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:37:36","slug":"nz-immigration-updates-including-processing-during-covid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/nz-immigration-updates-including-processing-during-covid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Immigration Updates Including Processing During Covid Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration New Zealand has released the following updates:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current processing of online visa categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following visa applications are currently being processed remotely whilst we experience Covid restrictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Border Exceptions<\/li>\n<li>Essential Skills work visas<\/li>\n<li>Work to Residence visas<\/li>\n<li>Partnership visas (temporary and residence)<\/li>\n<li>Post-study work visas<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Student visas<\/li>\n<li>Visitor visas<\/li>\n<li>Section 61 requests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nNew Essential Skills Work Visa application form is online <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 19 July 2021, changes were announced to make Essential Skills visas to streamline application processing and increase visa duration for some workers who are staying with the same employer.<\/p>\n<p>Online applications for Essential Skills Work Visas are available from 31 August 2021 and will be processed during Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper Applications Not Being Processed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For security and privacy reasons, paper applications are not\u202fbeing processed by Immigration NZ as they cannot be removed from the office.<\/p>\n<p>To discuss your situation and how these changes may affect you or your business, contact our expert NZ team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Covid restrictions, Immigration NZ has released a few updates including: which visas continue to be processed, \u2018Essential Skills Work Visa\u2019 recently introduced, is now available online and only online applications are currently being process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46223,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8622","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\/8622","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=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}