{"id":2263,"date":"2021-10-11T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2023-02-16T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:37:38","slug":"the-2021-resident-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/the-2021-resident-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Resident Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has introduced the 2021 Resident Visa.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/one-residence-pathway-provides-certainty-migrants-and-business\"> https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/one-residence-pathway-provides-certainty-migrants-and-business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An anticipated 165,000 permanent resident visas will be available for qualifying applicants to seek.<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; word-spacing: normal;\">&nbsp;It may seem straight-forward. My advice is to see your trusted and experienced immigration lawyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Applicants must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have been in New Zealand on 29 September 2021, and<\/li>\n<li>be on an eligible visa or have applied for an eligible visa before 29 September 2021 that is later granted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition applicants must also meet one of f the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have lived in New Zealand for three or more years, or<\/li>\n<li>earn at or above the median wage ($27 per hour), or<\/li>\n<li>work in a role on the Long Term Skill Shortage List, or\n<ul>\n<li>hold occupational registration and work in the health or education sector, or<\/li>\n<li>work in personal care or other critical health worker roles, or<\/li>\n<li>work in a specified role in the primary industries; or<\/li>\n<li>critical workers, and their families, for roles six months or longer until 31 July 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<h5>Key dates and key points:<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Applicants must meet requirements on 29 September 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Phase 1 applications can be submitted from 1 December 2021 if you have submitted:\n<ol>\n<li><em>A SMC RV application; OR<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A Residence From Work application; OR<\/em><\/li>\n<li><i><strong><em>An SMC Expression of EOI which included a dependent child aged 17 years or older.<\/em><\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Phase 2 applications can be submitted from 1 March 2022 for all other eligible applicants.<\/li>\n<li>These will be online applications.<\/li>\n<li>All applications must be submitted by 31 July 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">NZ Immigration Lawyers Limited has an accumulated wealth of 15 min free consultation by sending a message to <a href=\"mailto:immigrate@alexlee.co.nz\">immigrate@alexlee.co.nz<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.3","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","zh"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"zh":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexlee.co.nz\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}