Worries over the New Silver Fern Visa
Well, I said it probably wasn’t as good as it sounded, and seems I’m not the only one concerned. Migrant Action Trust says:
“It’s too late when these people come here and realise there are no jobs. They get stuck here and the Government doesn’t care. It is left to people like us to pick them up
Because of course this visa doesn’t give you a job, nor is it likely to make it easier to get a job. You have 9 months, and if at the end of that you haven’t found work – you need to leave.
Besides all 300 spaces for this year were taken within 30 minutes of the new visa being opened for business. I have to say I think this was a monumental waste of government resources setting this up and placing such a tiny number of spaces. Unless the government is actually going to clamp down on people who come here with a tourist visa and look for work – I just don’t see the point of it myself.
With this visa you have to go through all the rigmarole (and cost) of getting through the Medical and Police checks – and yet you are not actually applying for a permanent visa – just the chance to see if you could get a permanent visa. And even then – it only gets you a WRT visa from the looks of things.
The worst thing is that INZ say as part of the requirements that you must:
- have a minimum of NZ$4,200 available funds to meet your living costs while you are here
Now I have no idea what planet they live on – but I think it is outrageous that they are still claiming you can survive in New Zealand with that level of funding. This is for 9 months remember.
Say you rent a flat. In Carterton where it’s cheap. A 3 bed house will set you back about $240 a week. That’s a smidge less than a Studio apartment is Wellington the size of a hotel room. If there’s 4 weeks a month, that’s $960 a month. For 9 months.
That’s $8640.
That’s just to put a cheap roof over your head. No food, bills, phone costs, travel costs. And certainly no money to find out everything that this country has to offer.
I think people will be very disillusioned at the end of this, and I think they are being right royally ripped off. I guess we have to wait and see what happens with the first batch to come through the system.
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Related posts:
- Silver Fern Visa – don’t hold your breath.
- Silver Fern Visa – Still causing mayhem for immigrants
- Emigrate to New Zealand: The Importance of getting the right Visa.
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