2021年7月16日移民部消息，延长基本技能签证正在推出。两年基本技能签证，为至少18，000名签证持有者提供确定性。简化申请流程，使至少 57，000 名签证持有人受益。
移民部长克里斯·法福伊说:”政府正在增加一些基本技能签证的期限，并简化申请程序，以便在COVID边界限制仍然有效时，为雇主和签证持有人提供更多的确定性。我们认识到某些行业目前面临的劳动力需求压力，我们希望充分利用我们在该国拥有的技能。因此，政府正在使企业更容易继续雇用他们目前的移民工人”。
从7月19日星期一起，对于工资低于工资中位数的工作，基本技能签证的最长期限将从12个月增加到24个月。支付高于中位数工资的工作，基本技能签证的最长期限为三年。
基本技能签证的申请程序也将简化，以工人留在他们目前的角色。
如果工人申请了工人已经持有的全职职位的签证，雇主将不需要完成劳动力市场测试。如果以前提供过这些信息，这些申请人也不需要向新西兰移民局提供医疗和警察证明。
如果雇主正在填补职位空缺，以证明没有新西兰人可以雇用移徙工人，则仍需要进行劳动力市场测试。这符合政府确保新西兰人优先就业的目标。
克里斯·法福伊说：”这些变化补充了我们最近为大约10，000名工作假期和补充季节性就业签证持有者发放的延期″。
旅游部长斯图亚特·纳什说：”政府正在倾听商界的担忧。
以前向企业推出的 COVID 支持旨在保持工人与雇主的联系，并在关闭国际边界时保持旅游业务的运营。延长基本技能签证和简化申请流程的决定是下一步，将受到旅游和酒店等行业的欢迎，因为雇主渴望留住他们目前的农民工″。
农业部长米安•奥康纳（DamienOConnor）表示，这些变化承认，他从初级部门得到的反馈是，雇主们迫切希望留住移民员工，比如奶牛场经理，他们经常通过基本技能签证为同一个雇主工作数年。我要感谢农业领导在这些变革中一直与政府合作。
达米安·奥康纳说：”这将为这些农民和农场工人提供可喜的确定性，并增加最近的边境例外，以引进200名移民奶牛场工人及其家人。
移民部长说，这些基本技能签证的改变将是支持雇主在独特的COVID-19情况下的临时措施，也是政府正在进行的审查边界设置的一部分，以平衡新西兰的经济需要与成功的COVID健康反应，使病毒远离我们的社区。
我们对移民环境的长期愿景是，在新西兰培养人才，建立一个更加自力更生的劳动力市场。政府为自由贸易培训提供的3.2亿纽币定向投资是这一愿景的一部分，在过去一年里，该投资帮助了144，000多人接受培训”。
“我们希望与行业合作，似乎他们制定了计划，吸引、培训和提高新西兰人的角色，并投资于生产率变化，以帮助他们摆脱一种关系对低薪和低技能的移徙工人的不满。许多部门和雇主已经在研究如何进行这些转变，因为COVID对工人的供应压力″克里斯·法福伊说。
将基本技能签证延长至两年意味着新的认可雇主工作签证将于11月1日生效，将推迟到明年年中。一旦确定确切日期，将立即提供更新。政府仍然致力于获得认可的雇主工作签证，这将确保发放的工作签证，反映真正的区域技能短缺，并加强劳动力市场测试。不过，我们预期大多数基本技能签证持有人会申请这项为期两年的签证，这意味着实施认可雇主工作计划是不可行的，因为接受率可能很低。
Kris Faafoi 说：”在明年推出认可雇主工作签证之前，雇主将随时了解新制度的任何进一步变化和更详细的指导”。
请注意，在新西兰获得全职工作（30小时以上）并符合其他资格要求的任何人均可获得基本技能签证。大多数基本技能签证持有者在服务部门工作，包括旅游、酒店和零售。
Extended Essential Skills visas being rolled out
Two-year Essential Skills visa to provide certainty to at least 18,000 visa holders
The streamlined application process to benefit at least 57,000 visa holders
The Government is increasing the duration of some Essential Skills visas and streamlining the application process to provide more certainty to employers and visa holders while COVID border restrictions remain in place.
“We recognise the ongoing labour demand pressures faced by some sectors and we want to make the most of the skills we have in the country. So the Government is making it easier for businesses to continue employing their current migrant workers,” Minister of Immigration Kris Faafoi said
From Monday 19 July, the maximum duration of Essential Skills visas, for jobs paid below the median wage, will increase from 12 months to 24 months. The maximum duration of Essential Skills visas for jobs paid above the median wage is already three years.
The application process for Essential Skills visas will also be simplified for workers remaining in their current roles.
Employers won’t be required to complete a labour market test where a worker is applying for a visa for a full-time role that the worker already holds. These applicants also won’t need to provide medical and police certificates to Immigration New Zealand if that information has been supplied previously.
A labour market test will still be required where employers are filling a job vacancy to prove there are no New Zealanders available before a migrant worker can be hired. This is in line with the Government’s objective to ensure Kiwis are prioritised for jobs.
“These changes complement the recent extension we granted for around 10,000 Working Holiday and Supplementary Seasonal Employment visa holders,” Kris Faafoi said.
“The Government is listening to business concerns,” said Tourism Minister, Stuart Nash.
“COVID support previously rolled out to businesses has been designed to keep workers connected to employers and keep tourism businesses operating while international borders are closed. The decision to extend Essential Skills visas and simplify application processes is the next step, and will be welcomed by sectors like tourism and hospitality where employers are keen to retain their current migrant workers,” Stuart Nash said.
The Agriculture Minister, Damien O’Connor, said the changes acknowledged feedback he had been getting from the primary sector where employers were desperate to hang onto migrant staff, like dairy farm managers, who had often worked for the same employer for several years on an Essential Skills visa.
“I want to thank the farming leadership that has been working with the government on these changes.
“This will provide welcome certainty for those farmers and farmworkers, and adds to the recent border exception to bring in 200 migrant dairy farmworkers and their families,” Damien O’Connor said.
The Immigration Minister said these Essential Skills visa changes would be temporary measures to support employers in the unique COVID-19 situation and were part of the Government’s ongoing review of border settings to balance New Zealand’s economic needs with the successful COVID health response that has kept the virus out of our communities.
“Our long-term vision for immigration settings is to grow talent here in New Zealand and build a more self-reliant labour market. The Government’s $320 million targeted investment for free trades training, which has helped just over 144,000 people to train in the past year, is part of that vision,” Kris Faafoi said.
“We want to work with sectors and see them develop plans to attract, train and upskill Kiwis into roles, and invest in productivity changes that can help them move away from a reliance on low-paid and low-skilled migrant workers. Many sectors and employers are already looking at how to make those shifts as a result of COVID pressure on the supply of workers,” Kris Faafoi said.
Extending Essential Skills visas to the last two years means the new Accredited Employer Work Visa, which was due to come into effect on 1 November, will be delayed until the middle of next year. An update will be provided as soon as an exact date is confirmed.
“The Government remains committed to the Accredited Employer Work Visa, which will ensure work visas issued reflect genuine regional skill shortages and strengthen labour market testing. However, we expect most Essential Skills visa holders will apply for this two-year visa, meaning the implementation of the Accredited Employer Work scheme would not be viable because of likely low uptake.
“Employers will be kept updated on any further changes and more detailed guidance on the new system ahead of the introduction of the Accredited Employer Work Visa next year,” Kris Faafoi said.
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