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Last December, The Minister of Immigration has extended a number of temporary visas by Special Direction in order to retain the onshore migrant workforce given the limited number of migrants able to enter New Zealand due to the border closure. Then late January 2021, media wrote an article that the partner and children will not get the automatic extension and the email was an error. Check the article here. Therefore there would have been some confusion about the extension. Simon Park, the CEO of Immigration Trust, communicated with INZ to clarify the issues below. 1. If you received the your visa expiry email from INZ, even though you received an email that your visa will be extended. According to INZ, "the email’s that are going out to clients that their visa is due to expire cannot be turned off. It is automated from the system". 2. Confusion about the partner and children's visas extension. According to INZ, "If the main applicants work visa is extended and the partner and children were in New Zealand on 01/01/2021 and hold visas dependent on the main work visa holder, then their visas will also be extended for 6 months." 3. When will I get the visa extension letter? According to INZ, "The confirmation letters that the visa’s have been extended will not be sent out until March 2021."  
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Statistics New Zealand has engaged with the dairy sector and developed new task descriptions for three dairy roles that sit under the occupation of Dairy Cattle Farmer (121313) in the Australia and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). The three new sub category roles are:
Immigration Instructions have been updated (Amendment Circular 2021-02) so that Immigration Officers must make an assessment based on the immigration-specific view of ANZSCO provided by Statistics New Zealand for all Dairy Cattle Farmer roles under occupation code 121313, with effect from 15 February 2021. The updated task descriptions will be used when undertaking a substantial match assessment and assessing whether an applicant is suitably qualified for these roles under both Essential Skills work visa and the Skilled Migrant Category (SMC) resident instructions. Given that the above dairy roles are all skill level 1-3, applicants for the SMC may be eligible for points for skilled employment, subject to meeting remuneration and other requirements. These changes apply to applications made from 15 February 2021 onwards. With the exception of the three dairy occupations noted above, INZ will continue to refer to ANZSCO version 1.2 when assessing residence and temporary entry applications. The pay rate will continue to be used when determining the duration of Essential Skill work visas. |
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