20 18 details of the opening hours of New Zealand immigrant visas

With the support of this policy, applicants with silver fern visas can directly obtain the right of abode in New Zealand after successfully finding technical jobs.

20 18 the new Zealand silver fern visa was opened on1the morning of October 28th, New Zealand time110. If there are any changes in the future, please refer to official website, the Immigration Bureau.

Teacher Li, who studied abroad for 360 years, introduced that obtaining New Zealand immigration status through a silver fern visa is divided into two stages.

The first stage is to apply for a work visa for New Zealand silver fern.

Silver fern job visa gives the applicant the right to enter New Zealand and find a job and employment, and it is not necessary to provide proof of employer's guarantee to the Immigration Bureau when applying. As long as the number of places is won and the material requirements at the time of delivery are met, it can be successfully approved. After successfully applying for a silver fern visa, the applicant must enter New Zealand within 6 months from the date of issuance of the visa; After entering New Zealand, the visa is valid for 9 months and you can seek technical jobs in New Zealand.

There are two basic conditions for applying for a work visa for silverfern:

1, limit

New Zealand immigrants are open to the world, and only 300 places can be applied for by applicants every year. A person can only apply once in his life.

The Immigration Bureau is first worried that the unlimited provision of places will have an impact on the study abroad market. After all, education export is an important economic pillar of New Zealand. If many people meet the requirements for applying for a silver fern visa and can take the route of working migration instead of studying abroad, their educational income will be affected.

Secondly, the silver fern visa is a work visa without employer's guarantee, and you are not required to be a professional in short supply to apply. And after entering the country, you don't need to do labourmarketcheck (you need to prove that there are no New Zealand locals to replace your job). You can apply for skilled migration when you find a job. This policy is unprecedented. If the quota is not controlled, the Immigration Bureau will worry that too many foreign workers will occupy the employment of local people and lead to local problems.

Finally, after finding a job, even if the applicant has not submitted an immigration application, he has the right to enjoy various benefits, including guaranteed entry for the whole family, free childbirth, free schooling for his children and so on. Before you have a silver fern visa, it is necessary and not easy to get these benefits: unless you are an international student in New Zealand and have found a job, or if you are in short supply in the industry and have a job guarantee from your employer, if you are not, you must be a talent who has passed the labourmarketcheck test. Finally, unless you are already a PR (permanent residence) in New Zealand.

For these reasons, the Immigration Bureau strictly controls the number of applicants for the Yinfen work visa. Applicants from all over the world will apply at the designated opening hours, and the places will often be filled in an instant.

2. Requirements for applying for qualification

Silver fern work visa is a direct policy for skilled immigrants, so its application conditions mostly follow the requirements of skilled immigrants, but it is much lower than that of skilled immigrants. The application requirements for the applicant are as follows:

The person is not in New Zealand at the time of application;

The age limit is 20 to 35 years old (including 35 years old);

Hold a recognized bachelor's degree (including master's degree) or recognized basic education (certificate, junior college)+at least two years relevant work experience;

The average English IELTS score is 6.5;

At least an amount equivalent to 4,200 New Zealand dollars (about 20,000 RMB) is used as the basic living expenses after entry;

In good health, you need to go to the designated physical examination hospital for physical examination and issue a physical examination report;

Proof of no crime and no criminal record provided by the police station and notary office;

If you belong to a profession that needs to be registered in New Zealand, you need to obtain relevant registration qualifications in New Zealand first;

I haven't applied for a work visa for Silverfern before.

The above are all requirements, but also hard requirements. Only IELTS has a little leeway. For example, you meet the IELTS exemption conditions (the same as skilled immigrants applying for IELTS exemption conditions); In addition, applicants without a degree are required to have two years of relevant work experience, and the recognition of work experience is the same as that of skilled immigrants. It should be noted that even if the above conditions are fully met, the application materials must be submitted first, otherwise the immigration office will return the application materials; On the other hand, if you manage to get a quota, but you don't meet the qualification requirements, the immigration office will also refuse the visa application.

The second stage is to apply for the New Zealand silver fern practice visa and PR.

After you enter the country with a silver fern work visa and successfully find a job, you can apply for a silver fern practical experience work visa, valid for two years. After you hold this visa and have been employed for three months, you can apply for a green card from the Immigration Bureau. At the same time, as long as you already hold SFPEV (without waiting for PR), you can start to arrange entry for the whole family (excluding your parents): your spouse can get an open work visa that coincides with your time (you can engage in any occupation anywhere in New Zealand). If you have children, you can go to kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools in New Zealand for free. If there are no children, the cost of giving birth in New Zealand is free. The whole family enjoys the reduction of basic medical expenses. Tip: Parents can apply for visiting relatives, but they have no right to work. If your PR has come down, you can guarantee that your parents will get PR.

It is also conditional to apply for a New Zealand silver fern practice visa, which is basically equivalent to the requirement of professional skill attributes when joboffer is added to the application for skilled immigrants. Simply put, if you are engaged in technical work, your position should be in the list of immigrant occupations, or your skill level should belong to skilllevel 1, skilllevel2, skilllevel3. The specific requirements are as follows:

Holding SilverFernvisa when applying.

Hold a work contract with an employment period of at least 12 months;

If it is a registered occupation, it must have the relevant registration qualifications in New Zealand;

Must be skilled in employment;

Meet the requirements of health and conduct;

Among them, the most important and crucial thing is skilled employment. The job you find must be technical (not a job as a salesman, a car driver, a cleaner, etc.). ), and your job must be full-time, real and paid, just like the job offer requirements of skilled immigrants.

In addition, in theory, when you hold a work visa of Yinfen, you can apply for the right of abode directly to the Immigration Bureau after you find a job and sign a work contract with your employer, without applying for the second-stage practical experience visa of Yinfen, but the actual time may not be enough, because the approval of the right of abode is slow, with an average time of 6 months (the outbreak of personality may only take 65,438+0 ~ 3 months, but it cannot be based on individual cases. ) your SilverFernJobSearchVisa is only valid for 9 months. Excluding the time from finding a job to signing a contract, the remaining time may not be enough for you to wait until the day when PR comes down. While waiting for PR, you must have a legal visa, so it is almost necessary to apply for a Silver Fern Practical Experience Visa after finding a job, or submit the application at the same time as PR and work permit (work permit 1-2 weeks can be approved). SFPEV is valid for 2 years, which is enough for you to wait for PR.

Under the support of the silver fern policy, the complete application sequence is: apply for silverfernjobsearchvisa->; Enter a country and find a job-> Apply for silverfern practical experience visa+permanent residence visa (green card)

What if I can't find a job? First of all, you should believe that since you can successfully apply for a work visa for New Zealand Silver fern, it means that you are the talent that New Zealand needs (only 300 people in the world can get this visa, and you are one of them), and New Zealand has also given you the same fair employment rights as New Zealand natives (exemption from labourmarketcheck). Nine months is enough time to find a job. If you can't find a job, you haven't worked hard enough.

If you don't find a job in the end, you can still choose to go to school and transfer to a student visa (it is easier to transfer to study abroad than to apply for study abroad) and take the road of studying abroad; Or change to an ordinary work visa for legal residence; You can also try to submit a PR application directly (it is very likely to be handed over to WTR).

But you need to understand that once you leave the scope of the silver fern policy, some of the above-mentioned related welfare benefits and the right to apply for the right of abode will be temporarily lost, so you still have to be able to find a job, which will truly reflect your living ability in New Zealand, and the PR will naturally be 100%.

Generally speaking, the New Zealand Silver fern visa program has cleared many obstacles from the policy, greatly improved the certainty of applying for immigration and greatly reduced the difficulty. With this visa, as long as you can hold a work contract, it means you can get PR immediately.

I hope you can tell your friends who are interested in immigrating to New Zealand in this way, and don't miss the once-a-year opportunity! Please be prepared in advance.