Expect substantial delays to work visa applications
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The Associate Deputy Chief Executive of Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has released a statement advising there will be substantial delays with work visa applications due to a reallocation of internal staff.
As many readers will be aware (based our recent article circulations), INZ’s Beijing office has temporarily closed due to the Covid-19 outbreak in China and this has resulted in a significant backlog of temporary visa applications allocated to that branch. The Beijing Branch normally holds 130 visa processing staff. INZ has therefore made the decision to reassign a significant number of their case officers from the work visa teams to alleviate this backlog.