New Zealand Rugby GIF By ADWEEK
It's not as funny without the audio...
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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Maybe they are not bothered by being politically incorrect.
How unwelcoming! Where’s the Ferari?
I think this is a great policy.
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Right. And in my view the fact that policy hasn’t long ago been made Federal law here and in other western countries is convincing evidence those running our countries are freaking idiots, traitors, and criminals!
Uh oh. Sounds supremacist to me.
English will be a nice change of pace from whatever it is that the Kiwis speak.
“ On Sunday, New Zealand’s government reported that 173,000 non-citizens migrated to the country last year, almost a record.”
Did they swim from Paupa New Guinea?
I think it’s possible that many did indeed, come from there.
If only our government had the guts to do this.
That’ll earn the wrath of globalists.
On all accounts, I like it.
I’ve heard that it’s very difficult to obtain NZ citizenship.
Aren’t the leftist going to lose their minds for this being racist or xenophobic of r some such nonsense?
Does “sign language” count?
That’s how I speak Spanish in the USA.
somebody is waking up?
Good on NZ.
With such a small population, the island could easily be taken over. Far too many “immigrants” were let in already.
Step in the right direction, but New Zealand needs so much more help.
Worthy of imitating. NOW!
New Zealand Rugby GIF By ADWEEK
It's not as funny without the audio...
RACISTS!. Wonder how the NZer’s will react to being called that.
highly unlikely that anyone could swim from PNG to New Zealand.
The distance from the southernmost point of PNG to the North Island of New Zealand is 2560 miles / 4119.92 km
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