Since when is being pregnant an illness?
Once again, Immigration New Zealand are making the lives of an immigrant couple a living nightmare becuase the woman has got pregnant.
How dare she!
A Brazilian couple who moved to New Zealand to start afresh have been caught in bureaucratic limbo because of an unplanned pregnancy.Marcio Tulio de Moura, 35, and his wife, Barbara Ohana de Sena Vieira, 26, applied for new temporary work visas this year but their applications were held up when a medical exam showed Barbara was pregnant.
She is five months’ pregnant and Immigration New Zealand says she does not meet the health requirements for a permit.
Mr Moura is eligible to apply for residency as a skilled migrant and can include his partner and their daughter, Ana, 4, but only if new work permits are granted.
It just makes me want to scream with frustration! Why are they still doing this? Why on earth is Pregnancy deemed to be such a danger to New Zealand? We have 2 people, working – one skilled as a stonemason, and becuase one of them is going to have take time off to give birth, they are deemed “unacceptable”?? Does New Zealand really want to be known as a country that behaves like this? Its clear they are not trying to rip the system off – they already been here contributing for 2 years.
Ms Vieira said she briefly considered an abortion – which is illegal in Brazil – but the couple want another child and decided against termination.
Right now, I am ashamed to live in a country that has put any family in that position. 
Immigration NZ manager of operations Simon Smith said a decision on the couple’s applications was pending.
I hope he has a fit of common sense! The information provided by the couple is being “assessed” so lets hope for their sake and their sanity that Immigration get that assessment done really fast, becuase to me – this is unacceptable. These people should be able to enjoy this pregnancy, not look on it with any amount of dread and uncertainty.
Yes, New Zealand needs to ensure that people don’t “rip the country off” and become pregnancy tourists – something that should have been negated anyway by closing access to automatic citizenship for anyone born in New Zealand. But surely this is just going too far.
Pregnancy is not an Appendix 10 Condition, so when applying for a residency permit, it actually doesn’t automatically disqualify you.However, Ms Vieira and Mr Moura are applying for Work Permits, and the rules are different, and as far as Immigration is concerned – you do not have an acceptable standard of health if you are pregnant, Which is quite frankly – nuts! Ok – look closely if this is a first time application – do you investigations – but not when people have given 2 years of their lives to your country already and proved themselves!
I wish them all the luck in the world!
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2 Comments on Since when is being pregnant an illness?
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barbar vieira on
Wed, 18th Aug 2010 12:01 pm
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Avalon on
Fri, 20th Aug 2010 9:39 am
I was very happy with your article to our respect …
But today I think that here in this country people with powers over the lives of others besides not having heart too are not equipped with intelligence.
When will that common sense should act?
We have over a thousand dollars in arrears, they will probably cut my power, I have to take my daughter out of the kinden for failure to pay, and don’t know how we are going to feed ourselves next week.
Today New Zealand for me is worse than any communist country I’ve ever heard.
They want me to give up fighting and also die of hunger?
I’m asking what is rightfully mine! I gave three years of mine life and health for this country and now they want to kick me as if I were a mangy dog?
Hello Barbara, and thank you for commenting. I think many people will share your frustration – this happens way too often and to too many people.
But today I think that here in this country people with powers over the lives of others besides not having heart too are not equipped with intelligence.
When will that common sense should act?
And there you have hit the nail on the head. Not everyone working in Immigration is up to scratch, not all of them are smart, and not many have any common sense. Those of us who get unlucky with our case officers are in for a rough ride.
Im just really sorry this has happened to you, and that it has happened at such a time. Please do let us know what happens. I for one will continue to think of you.
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