parent boost visa<\/a> offers parents of New Zealand citizens and residents a stay of up to five years in New Zealand.<\/p>\nA total of 198 applications came in during the first fortnight, and four of them were approved in principle.<\/p>\n
“While it does not provide a pathway to residence, it offers a meaningful way for families to spend extended time together,” said Immigration New Zealand visas director Jock Gilray. “Sponsorship and insurance are required.”<\/p>\n
The Government expects between 2000-10,000 applications per year, with a model based on 6000 applications annually.<\/p>\n
The adult child sponsor must earn the median wage to sponsor one parent or one-and-a-half times the median wage for both parents.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, a parent must have an income comparable to the superannuation rate or funds of $160,000 to see them through the duration of their visa. It also requires health checks and other undertakings.<\/p>\n
Parent residence<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, migrants hoping to bring their parents over permanently under the parent residence visa say the timeline for a review keeps shifting.<\/p>\n
To apply for the parent resident visa, applicants must submit an expression of interest, until the application is selected at random by Immigration New Zealand and processed.<\/p>\n
In July, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford told RNZ that the ballot scheme was being looked at again, with a report likely due back at the start of next year.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Sophie Liu, who launched a petition to change the visa settings, told a select committee that they wanted the ballot replaced with a queue. She said 15,400 sponsors were waiting, as of July, for 2500 spots a year.<\/p>\n
She said people were desperate for the promised review.<\/p>\n
“We’re now coming to end of the year. I hope it’s not getting delayed again, because really there are so many people suffering.”<\/p>\n
Mount Albert Member of Parliament Helen White said the issue was big with residents in her area.<\/p>\n
“I have heard from constituents even this week,” she said. “I do hear there’s a lot of torture in what’s going on at the moment for communities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 200 parents applied for the long-term parent visa in the two weeks after it was launched. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[917,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-86032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-immigration","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86032","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=86032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}