- Border fully open two months early from 11:59pm 31 July
- Significantly simplified immigration processes that provide faster processing for businesses
- New Green List that includes over 85 hard to fill roles created to attract and retain high-skilled workers to fill skill shortages
- Green List will provide streamlined and prioritised pathway to residency incentivising high skilled healthcare, engineers, trade and tech sector workers to relocate to New Zealand long term
- Visa extensions for around 20,000 migrants already in New Zealand to ensure skilled workers stay in country
- New sector specific agreements, to help industries transition from a reliance on low-wage, low skill migrant labour, including additional measures to support the rebuild of our tourism sector
- Cruise ships able to return with the opening of the maritime border from 31 July
- Full resumption of international education from 31 July
- Apprenticeship Boost extended to the end of 2023, supporting an extra 38,000 New Zealanders into trades
- Online visitor visa applications reopen to Pacific Island Forum countries (excluding Australia) from 16 May
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today announced a major package of reforms, which include an early opening of New Zealand’s border and a simplification of immigration settings, to address the immediate skill shortages in New Zealand and speed up the economic recovery from COVID-19.
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