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April 7 (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Sunday that it was making immediate changes to its employment visa program after a near record migration last year which it said was "unsustainable".
The changes include measures such as introducing English language requirement for low skilled jobs and setting a minimum skills and work experience threshold for most employer work visas. The maximum continuous stay for most low skilled roles will also be reduced to three years from five years.
"The Government is focused on attracting and retaining the highly skilled migrants such as secondary teachers, where there is a skill shortage," Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said in a statement.
"At the same time we need to ensure that New Zealanders are put to the front of the line for jobs where there are no skills shortages," she said.
Last year, a near record 173,000 people migrated to New Zealand, the statement said.
New Zealand, which has a population of about 5.1 million, has seen a rapid growth in its migrant numbers since the end of the pandemic, raising concerns last year that it was fanning inflation.
Neighbouring Australia, which has also seen a big jump in migrants, has said it would halve its migrant intake over the next two years.
KingBarnet@pakisisland.lk Sunday, 07 April 2024 03:23 PM
This won't be a big problem for Sri Lankans after the reelection of Ranil.
Danny Sunday, 07 April 2024 05:07 PM
The British colonial era continues in these two countries, where the British decents, marginalised the natives and runs the show. This is the case in Canada too but one province is of the French!
Smh Monday, 08 April 2024 05:16 PM
Archaic mentality. Come out from under the rock. It is not as bad as you think.
Sam Silva Sunday, 07 April 2024 05:26 PM
We have low skilled workers acute shortage in our own country and no one is interested. But they will rather protest on the streets and waste their productive time and life.
Punchi Sunday, 07 April 2024 07:10 PM
We all wanted independence from the whiteman now we want to migrate to whiteman countries. I was reading somewhere that a boat load of kallathonis from China were deposited on the coast of Western Australia by Indonesian fisherman. The allure of whiteman countries is very great
Chris Monday, 08 April 2024 06:45 PM
You sound like a bitter
Terrence K Tuesday, 09 April 2024 12:52 PM
I am surprised that some of the comments made by the public shows that they have not studied indepth sri lanka history calling people of other countries migrating to Western Countries Kalathonis whereas we have a majority of Kalathonis who are descendants of Prince Vijaya who was banished from India with his 700 followers in 543 BC proudly say that they are the natives of this country. What a travesty!!!!!!!!!!!!
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