Employers can look at your immigration status directly???
In theory – I really don’t object too much to employers being able to check your visa status – after all, we would generally have to show them a copy of the visa to prove our eligibility to work for them. But today I read at Visa Bureau that Immigration New Zealand have set up an Online system called Visa View where potential employers can check you out.
Welcome to VisaView
This service allows New Zealand employers to access records held by Immigration New Zealand and to check whether a person who is not a New Zealand citizen is entitled to work in New Zealand.
It will provide a tracking mechanism so that employers can prove they are doing the proper checks – which helps them stay within new (and improved) immigration legislation that will come into force later this year. My only really beef with this is to wonder who INZ can so quickly set up a new online Information Sharing system so easily to employers, and yet cant tell what each of their offices is going yet, or send files electronically between offices yet. The mind boggles.
By the way the penalties for an employer taking on an immigrant that is not entitled to work in New Zealand is oddly enough a fraction of the penalties that can be imposed on an Immigrant for given unlicensed immigration advice.
You don’t say! And agents wonder why I an still so contemptuous of their law?
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