New NZ Border Exemptions to Boost Digital Economy and Food Production

Immigration New Zealand published a list of “new border class exceptions” for many workers and their families and dependents.

The list includes:

• 600 specialist ICT workers
• 180 external auditors
• 200 dairy workers
• plus hundreds of specialised semi-skilled labour in fishing rural contractors

If any of these could be you, the first step is to read this link very carefully and remember that hungry employers will be looking to find high quality foreigners in these categories if you have the skills they need plus if you also comply to the INZ exemptions stated here. https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/media-centre/news-notifications/new-border-exceptions-announced

If you want help getting into contact with hiring managers in these sectors so you can “get the ball rolling” towards immigration, I am happy to help you do that. I just need your CV to start with and some information about your immigration status.
What I do with your CV from that stage is to review and give helpful feedback based on your immigration goals.

Remember, everything about immigration for these roles and most others comes down to the job offer, and employers will be increasingly driving the process towards your work visa. So the critical link is going to be your profile getting a response to you from your future employer so that you can be considered seriously enough for that job offer. From that stage of having a written and signed job offer in your hands, the rest of the process can flow naturally based on INZ requirements. For customised insights, I always welcome your CVs and questions to tate@employmentforimmigration.nz

Where is Immigration New Zealand going with this?

My attention was drawn to the following sentence – “More details will be released in coming weeks” and the following two links were immediately provided thereafter:

1. More skilled migrants coming to help keep economy humming – https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/more-skilled-migrants-coming-help-keep-economy-humming
2. New border exception to support rapidly growing tech sector – https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-border-exception-support-rapidly-growing-tech-sector

If you follow the above two links, you will find the first one written by the Labour MP for West Coast-Tasman and Minister of Agriculture, among other things.

The second link was written by the Minister of Digital Economy and Communications.

What seems obvious to me is that the government has decided to manage growth into the agricultural economy and the digital growth economy by priority, ahead of the borders opening for everyone else. Agriculture is the main export industry and the digital economy + communications are seen as critical for us to keep pace with a changing first world economy by the looks of it.