Posted on 04/09/2024 4:46:55 AM PDT by grundle
It's going to be more difficult to move to New Zealand. A bumper year for inward migration, more than double what official forecasters predicted, is pushing the country's government to tighten its worker visa system to control an "unsustainable" level of immigration.
On Sunday, New Zealand's government reported that 173,000 non-citizens migrated to the country last year, almost a record. The figure is also more than twice what forecasters predicted in May 2023, when officials projected that just 82,500 migrants would move to the country. The country has an overall population of 5.1 million.
“Getting our immigration settings right is critical to this Government’s plan to rebuild the economy,” said Erica Stanford, the minister of immigration and minister of education, in Sunday’s statement.
New Zealand will now impose an English-language requirement on those applying for worker visas, including for low-skilled jobs. The government is also reducing the length of stay to three years, down from five.
The government argued the new language requirement will ensure that incoming migrants better understand their rights, and raise concerns to the authorities. In February, New Zealand's Public Service Commission, which oversees the country's public sector organizations, alleged that loose visa rules exposed migrants to exploitation, or allowed them to effectively buy jobs.
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Agreed.
I was being intentionally absurd.
My point was, nobody gets in to NZ without people knowing about it.
If you do the math, the US equivalent is about 11 million illegals entering annually. AND America is 37x larger than NZ.
The NZ authorities could cut this off today. If they wanted….
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