coalition<\/a> is extending the time a resident visa holder who has been convicted of a serious offence (carrying sentences of 10 years or more) can be liable for deportation from 10 to up to 20 years. <\/p>\nAct wants this to be changed again to allow these resident visa holders to be deported no matter how long they have been here. <\/p>\n
2.\u2060 \u2060Skill categories expire every year<\/p>\n
Act wants the skill categories for which employers can hire immigrants on work visas to expire every year and require those employers to show \u201cup-to-date evidence of demand\u201d for the category to stay open.<\/p>\n
3.\u2060 Five-year welfare stand-down<\/p>\n
The party will campaign on introducing a five-year stand-down period for all residence class visa holders to access social welfare. This would bar these people from accessing payments such as Jobseeker support or accommodation supplements for their first five years in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
4.\u2060 \u2060$6 daily fee for temporary work visas<\/p>\n
Act would introduce a $6 per day infrastructure surcharge on temporary work visas, on top of existing charges, which would be considered a migrant\u2019s contribution to New Zealand\u2019s infrastructure. The fee would be imposed from day one.<\/p>\n
5.\u2060 \u2060Stronger English language requirements<\/p>\n
Basic English language requirements would be extended to all accredited employer work visas but still permit lower standards for seasonal workers.<\/p>\n
6.\u2060 \u2060Enforce the rules<\/p>\n
Act wants to establish a dedicated overstayer enforcement unit under Immigration New Zealand. Platform employers such as Uber and DoorDash would be required to verify and report work rights. Employers who facilitated overstaying would lose their accreditation.<\/p>\n
Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter. She joined the Herald in 2020 and has most recently focused on data journalism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Act leader David Seymour arrives in Mission Bay to speak to media about his new campaign policies. Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,27995,4619,137557,1738,12781,2837,5903,17900,1888,1342,71,305,191,917,35653,111,43,139,69,210543,384,10269,32035,1517,1072,73395,17902,165,8443,10708,18933,2443,1533,1530,80],"class_list":["post-409304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-accessing","tag-act","tag-barring","tag-campaign","tag-class","tag-during","tag-election","tag-enforcement","tag-first","tag-five","tag-from","tag-have","tag-here","tag-immigration","tag-migrants","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overstay","tag-people","tag-policies","tag-residence","tag-reveals","tag-social","tag-specialised","tag-targeting","tag-their","tag-unit","tag-visa","tag-visas","tag-welfare","tag-will","tag-years","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}