{"id":9098,"date":"2021-09-07T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:38:16","slug":"further-nz-immigration-updates-including-processing-during-covid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/news\/further-nz-immigration-updates-including-processing-during-covid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Further NZ Immigration Updates Including Processing During Covid Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Immigration New Zealand releases further information regarding processing during Covid restrictions and varying Alert Levels around the country, we will keep you informed. Here are the latest updates:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying for a Variation of Conditions of a work visa is now online <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new form to apply for a Variation of Conditions (VOC) of a work visa is now online.<\/p>\n<p>A new application can now be submitted online, for VOC paper applications that were sent before the Alert Level 4 nationwide lockdown that has not been acknowledged with an email, and those sent after.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extension of Resident Visas set to expire before 10 Sept 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Immigration has extended to September 11 2022 the travel conditions of resident visas set to expire between 25 August 2021 and 10 September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Resident visa holders overseas must be eligible for an exemption from border restrictions before they can travel to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visa conditions flexibility benefits supermarket workers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To help\u202fprovide\u202fessential services in supermarkets\u202fwhile New Zealand remains at Alert Level 3 or 4, already employed\u202ftemporary migrants\u202fin supermarkets can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0vary hours<\/li>\n<li>be redeployed to other roles within their current\u202fworkplaces<\/li>\n<li>be redeployed to\u202fworkplaces within\u202fsame\u202fregion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These changes apply to employees of Woolworths New Zealand Limited, Foodstuffs North Island Limited and Foodstuffs South Island Limited supermarkets that are operating as essential services during alert levels 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>An application for a variation of visa conditions is not needed \u2013 eligible workers will automatically benefit from these changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To discuss your situation and how these changes may affect you or your business, contact our expert NZ team.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Covid restrictions, Immigration NZ has released a few updates in relation to immigration: Applying for a Variation of Conditions of a work visa is now online, Extension of Resident Visas set to expire before 10 Sept 2022, and Visa conditions flexibility benefits supermarket workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","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\/9098","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=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}