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Australia and New Zealand Immigration News

Business travel to Vietnam will become easier for some

13:52 16/06/2005
Business travel to Vietnam is about to become easier following a recent announcement that Vietnam will shortly join sixteen other participating Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies in the APEC...

New Zealand changes investor immigration scheme

10:15 16/06/2005
Foreign investors wanting to live in New Zealand will have to hand over more than $2 million to the Government under new rules announced 15 June. In other changes to the category, applicants would...

20,000 violate visa rules in Australia in 2003-4

9:10 13/06/2005
Australian Immigration officials picked up 20,000 people who had overstayed their visas or breached their visa conditions in 2003-04, new figures reveal. The figures were part of a report released by...

Less immigration to New Zealand linked to higher unemployment

17:43 08/06/2005
New Zealand's unemployment rate could rise as much as 0.5 percentage points in the next couple of years due to an expected decrease in new immigrants, according to the International Monetary Fund (...

New Zealand immigration rules blamed for IT skill shortage

11:06 06/06/2005
The New Zealand Immigration Service is worsening the country's IT skills shortage by refusing to acknowledge industry qualifications, according to the Information Technology Association. Jim O'Neill...

New Zealand says apply early for re-entry visas

19:52 03/06/2005
Although the New Zealand government denies claims that Iraqi citizens are being denied re-entry visas, it does warn that processing is taking longer. The government says that anyone holding New...

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