Immigration and Refugee Law Services
Employers
Migrant workers form an important part of New Zealand's workforce. We advise employers on the following:
Migrant workers form an important part of New Zealand's workforce. We advise employers on the following:
- Essential Skills Work Visas
- Approved in Principle to employ overseas workers
- Talent (Accredited Employer) Work Visas
- Long Term Skill Shortage List Work Visas
- the employer check - all employers need accrediting to employ migrant workers
- the job check
- the migrant worker check
Migrants
1. Temporary Visas
2. Residence Visas
3. Special categories
1. Temporary Visas
- Visitor visas (general, parents, partnership)
- Student visas (all levels of study, dependents of work visa holders)
- Work visas (partnership-based, employment-based, religious workers, talent-accredited employers, entrepreneur)
2. Residence Visas
- Family categories (partnership, parents, dependent child)
- Skilled migrant category
- Residence from work
- Investor Two (quota-based, the applicant must have at least NZD3 millions to invest in New Zealand, among other requirements)
- Investor Plus (the applicant must have NZD10 millions to invest in New Zealand, among other requirements)
3. Special categories
- Unlawful immigration status: All temporary visas are characterised by the condition that the visa holder must leave New Zealand on or before their visas' expiry date. However, people may become overstayers for many reasons. Overstayers have no legal right to apply for further visas and are subject to deportation. However, a range of legal avenues is available for attempts to be made to legalise overstayers' immigration status if certain conditions are met. Please contact us for an assessment of your circumstances.
- Unsuccessful visa applications or refused section 61 requests: If your visa applications/section 61 requests have been declined/refused, you may become unlawful or have been unlawful. Please contact us for an assessment of your circumstances.
- Resident visas for victims of family violence: If you are in New Zealand to seek a residence visa based on your partnership with a New Zealand citizen or residence visa holder and your partnership has ended because of domestic violence, then you may be eligible for a visa under this category. Please contact us for an assessment of your circumstances.
Asylum Seekers
New Zealand has rectified international conventions resulting in the government's obligations to assess refugee or protected person status claim. The government does not charge fees for assessing such claims nor taking deportation actions against claimants while their claims are being processed.
If you are in New Zealand (lawfully or unlawfully) and fear returning to your home country, please contact us for an assessment of your circumstances.
If you are in New Zealand (lawfully or unlawfully) and fear returning to your home country, please contact us for an assessment of your circumstances.