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The holiday season is imminent; it just came upon us like a quiet train full of passengers’ ready to disembark. Similarly, the revised immigration instructions salary changes took a similar trend. It could mean that some current temporary workers would no longer qualify for a subsequent work visa under the Essential Skills Visa Category and others would not qualify for this visa.

This, one may say is a contributory factor to the much talked about dreaded “cut” to the immigration numbers. The potential impact will be great to those affected. Those that understand the consequences of such an announcement and are impacted by it will most likely have a downcast Christmas.

Spouses of New Zealanders stopped from coming in to New Zealand

Indianz X-Press, 1 Dec 2017

My recent fascination is with one’s perspective. And the revelation I have had is one’s world view is the dictator of one’s action. That thought, wherever it originates from, becomes the dictator of one’s worldview and therefore one’s actions.

On the face of it, this may appear to be irrelevant to the field of immigration, but it is relevant. Our immigration policy, now called immigration instructions, is an exercise of Ministerial directive through delegation. The use of a discretionary power all steam from a particular viewpoint of the world which is imbedded in the Western framework. It is important to focus on the viewpoint, the lens through which the world is seen, the view of acceptability, of reasonableness and appropriateness, as dictated by such a viewpoint.

The Auckland Times | Issue 174 | November 15, 2017

Often we become divorced from existence.

The end becomes the justification; the beginning is forgotten. The purpose of existence becomes secondary. With this mind-set, it then becomes about what the efficiency is to be gained. How much money can be saved in carrying out this function and it goes on?

In this mode of operating the point of existence becomes a distance past. This disconnection has been the symptom of the way the current public service has existed including aspects of Immigration New Zealand.

The Auckland Times | Issue 173 | October 10, 2017

A s I write, the New Zealand elections are over but a governing party has not been announced.

The election of 2017 cannot be accused of being boring. It changed like the wind. And true to form, the government to be has not been decided because no one has won an outright majority of seats to be able to form a government. The National Party has won the most votes but cannot independently form a government which is unlike countries you may be familiar with.

This is because New Zealand has what is called a MMP system.

A mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation is a hybrid two-tier voting system. MMP was originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag, and has been adopted by Bolivia, Lesotho and New Zealand.

The Auckland Times | Issue 172 | August 28, 2017

The Government recently announced changes to the Skilled Migrant and Essential Skills policies which came into force on 28 August 2017.

The aim is said to be “at striking the right balance between ensuring New Zealanders are at the front of the queue for jobs while preserving access to the temporary migrant skills necessary for New Zealand’s continued economic growth.”

The Skilled Migrant category is in place to allow for the grant of a resident visa to people with the skills and experience with the stated aim to contribute to New Zealand’s economic growth.

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