Currently Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is experiencing a high demand for temporary visa applications received in New Zealand and has made an operational decision to distribute a number of applications across global footprint to ensure applications can be allocated and processed as quickly as possible by utilizing global processing capacity.
Changes will take effect from all applications lodged on and after July 1 2017
The Northern Territory has temporarily suspended nomination applications for Subclass 489 and Subclass 190 visas where the applicants are not in the Northern Territory(offshore) until July 1, 2017.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has recently advised that they are currently dealing with a very high volume of partner visa applications- currently a total 88,000 onshore applications in the pipeline.
Keeping the special bilateral relationship between Australia and New Zealand in mind the Australian Government has announced to provide a streamlined pathway to Australian permanent residence, for many New Zealand citizens who have been living in Australia for at least five years and shown a commitment and contribution to Australia.
The new visa pathway will be available from 1 July 2017 for New Zealand Special Category Visa (SCV) holders who were resident in Australia on or before 19 February 2016 and, at the time of application, have resided in Australia for at least five years.
