Lincoln Tan, the immigration affairs reporter for the NZ Herald has written about the desperate financial plight of immigrants in New Zealand who have been reduced to living in vehicles. Some can’t even afford campsite fees. And it’s set to become harder with with a raise in GST to 15% (even on food) and tax…
A number of times on this blog we’ve highlighted the plight of skilled people who have been allowed emigrate to New Zealand to fill jobs that are on skills shortages lists but have been been unable to find work. Now we’re hearing of school classes being cancelled due to a lack of teachers and, as…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the immigrant experience in New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s Migrant Tale was posted by the partner of a British truck driver on a for-profit immigration forum.The couple have an 11 year old daughter and planned to settle in Nelson.…
Lincoln Tan of the NZ Herald today wrote about a new problem some migrants are having during the recession – not being able to work in their native countries because they’ve given up their citizenship rights to live in New Zealand: “Jobless Asians are barred from work in their native countries because of their NZ…
For anyone wanting to get a feel for good old grass root opinions and issues in New Zealand you can’t go far wrong by logging on to the community message boards at the NZ auction site Trademe. This is a thread that was started on 22 March 2010 and has generated a heated debate on…
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