What are the ways to immigrate to New Zealand?
There are about 45,000-50,000 immigrant places in New Zealand every year for people from all over the world to apply for. New Zealand has different types of immigrants according to different groups of people. There are mainly the following ways to immigrate to New Zealand:
1, skilled migration
2. Family reunion immigrants
3. Entrepreneurial immigrants
4. Investing in immigrants
5. Retired elderly immigrants
6. Humanitarian assistance to migrants
No matter how the applicant gets a New Zealand green card, one person holding a green card can guarantee the whole family to immigrate.
skilled immigration
Skilled immigrants account for about 60% of New Zealand's total immigration quota. According to published data, about 3,000-3,500 China people get New Zealand green cards through skilled immigrants every year. Most of the first generation immigrants are basically skilled immigrants from New Zealand. After all, most ordinary people have no money to be entrepreneurial immigrants or investment immigrants. Secondly, they have no relatives or friends abroad, so it is impossible to guarantee this road. In this case, overseas immigrants can only settle down through skilled immigrants. There is a Hong Kong-made film "Man-Han Banquet", played by Zhao. Because his idol immigrated to Canada, in order to get closer to his idol, Zhao stopped being a gangster and wanted to learn cooking and immigrate to Canada.
This kind of thinking that you need at least one skill to be an immigrant is exactly what most people know. As the name implies, to seek skilled migration, a person must have at least one skill to be considered as having the basic conditions.
Family reunion immigrants
The basic condition for such immigrants is that they must be relatives or spouses of New Zealand, but it also does not apply to most people. No one happens to have an overseas father or mother, or a sibling happens to be a resident or citizen of New Zealand. However, this kind of immigration is also a very popular way, because marriage immigration belongs to this category. Among many immigration methods, marriage immigration is indeed the easiest one and the one with the lowest conditions. Applicants have no age limit, academic qualifications, English proficiency or even gender requirements (New Zealand supports same-sex couples). Simply put, talking about a friend in New Zealand and establishing a relationship with this New Zealand citizen or resident (no need to get married, just need a relationship) have the basic application conditions.
It is precisely because of these advantages that "business marriage" has always been a hot topic. Although it is illegal, many people still pay attention to it (business marriage refers to spending money on a fake marriage immigration, and the two parties are not really married, just helping one party get a green card). Secondly, marriage immigration has a high success rate. Most people are already in New Zealand, and many people get green cards by falling in love or getting married.
Entrepreneurial immigrants
Entrepreneurship migration is also one of the most popular migration channels in recent years. Since 2009, when the New Zealand Immigration Bureau under the ruling of the National Party lowered the threshold for such immigrants, many people moved to New Zealand through entrepreneurial immigration. The biggest feature of entrepreneurial immigrants is that their capital requirements are lower than those of investment immigrants (NZD 200/500,000) and their English proficiency requirements are lower (IELTS 4). Among them, the second-class entrepreneurial immigrants only need NZ $200,000, which is about RMB 1 10,000 ~10.2 million. Generally speaking, as entrepreneurial immigrants, most people buy ready-made businesses, such as small shops, supermarkets or coffee shops in New Zealand, and the scale does not need to be too large. 10 square meters or 20 square meters of small shops are enough (latest tip: currently out of stock).
There are also many people who adapt to entrepreneurial immigration. The basic process is to apply for a 9-month business visa to enter the country and inspect business; When you arrive in New Zealand, find a business. After taking over the business, apply for a two-year self-employed work visa. You can apply for a green card as long as you don't close down for 2 years.
A thriving China restaurant.
Generally speaking, entrepreneurial migration is more feasible. Entrepreneurial immigration can not only solve the livelihood problem of New Zealand, but also get the green card of New Zealand, killing two birds with one stone. It is relatively difficult for entrepreneurial immigrants to operate on their own, because it involves business plans, business transfer, lawyers and other related links. To be an entrepreneurial immigrant, it is feasible for people to go to New Zealand first.
Introduction chapter on immigration to New Zealand
investment immigration
The threshold of investment immigration funds is higher, but the IELTS requirements are lower. Investment immigrants in New Zealand fall into two categories. One kind of application threshold100000 NZD (exchange rate1:50 million RMB) has no English requirements, while the other kind of application threshold150000 NZD has English requirements (IELTS 3 points). Compared with entrepreneurial immigrants, investment immigrants do not need to do business in one step, as long as the funds arrive and have a green card. The money can be invested by buying government bonds, stocks, funds and even lottery tickets. Simply put, as long as the money is deposited in a designated place in New Zealand, there is no problem. Before the implementation of the investment immigration reform in 2009, only 23 people in the world successfully obtained green cards within seven years. However, with the relaxation of the policy in 2009, the number of applicants who do not require English dropped from S $20 million to S $6,543,800+million, while those who require English dropped from S $2,500,000 to S $6,543,805, and the number of applicants increased accordingly.
In fact, investment immigrants from developed countries are far behind most people in China, but there is no problem for people like my father Li Gang.
Retired elderly immigrants
Retirement migration for the elderly is a new immigration method just launched by the New Zealand Immigration Service last year. Applicants and their spouses can get green cards. The basic requirement is that the applicant is over 66 years old, with no language requirements and no background requirements. To put it bluntly, they can invest in immigrants and have money. The financial threshold for retired elderly immigrants is NZ $750,000, and they also invest in designated areas, such as government bonds, stocks and funds. After the applicant submits the application, the whole family can get a three-month tourist visa and enter the country together. In the meantime, the money needs to be injected into the designated investment field and then get a green card.
Humanitarian relief for immigrants
Humanitarian aid migrants are also called refugee migrants. Refugees refer to those people who have fled their country and have not been properly resettled because of their country, nationality, religious beliefs, political views and special groups (such as homosexuals) and have good reasons to fear persecution. In addition, people who have been tortured or persecuted, or who may face undue risks and suffer mental torture if they return to their own country, can also apply for refugee protection. In fact, many people in China are qualified for this kind of application, such as petitioning for "mental illness", being sued by the court for refusing to file a case, being forcibly demolished for no reason, getting sick due to industrial pollution, being deprived of reproductive rights due to compulsory ligation, being invited to the station for "tea" for safeguarding rights, being "clubbed" by urban management at roadside stalls, and so on. To put it simply, there are people who have met "no answer every day, and the call on the ground is invalid".
Humanitarian assistance to migrants in need is already feasible in New Zealand. For some reason, it is not convenient to discuss it too much here, you know.
The basic immigration channels are roughly the above. If the applicant's conditions are relatively limited, it is difficult to apply for a green card directly in China, and it is necessary to enter the country first. As long as people arrive in New Zealand, the road is still relatively wide. As the saying goes, if you open a window, there will be a new world. On the other hand, there is an important factor here. People who come to New Zealand for personal experience can reduce the blindness of immigration, because not everyone is suitable for living overseas, and only when they come will they know whether they like it here.
Immigration psychology
It is generally believed that emigrating overseas is more suitable for two extremes: the rich and the poor, and the sandwich layer is often the easiest to retreat. Among the rich and the poor, the certainty that the rich live in peace is not as good as the poor, which is really strange, but it is not difficult to understand.
First of all, the rich have strong financial strength, so they have strong ability to settle down. They can start a business and do business in New Zealand, and it is easy for them to lay their own world. However, many rich people with official backgrounds often have other spiritual needs. These "bureaucrats" are used to the life of parties, crowds and compliments, but here, they are running around and won't attract anyone.
"It's boring here in New Zealand" is the mantra of many rich people. Indeed, in that magical land, as a powerful family, as long as any country is rich and strong, things that trample on morality that no country can tolerate can happen "very legally", such as "sleeping with young girls" and "keeping 146 mistresses", which can be easily enjoyed every night and even played various games. When mankind enters the 2 1 century, these centralized people can still continue to enjoy the privileges of the imperial era in China thousands of years ago, the extremely abnormal dissolute and luxurious life. In a country ruled by law, privileges under all kinds of "umbrellas" will be completely deprived, and even some bad habits that they think are insignificant are intolerable by the law here, such as shaving blades that are discarded at will, and if they are not wrapped in paper and thrown into the trash can, a garbage collector will be cut down, waiting for a letter from a lawyer to claim compensation. Here, no one can afford to offend, and everyone can exercise their civil rights (not to mention bullying a person, even bullying a kitten and puppy may violate the law, and feeding leftovers to small animals is a crime of cruelty to animals-New Zealand animals enjoy basic "human rights" except the right to vote)
The legislative thought of "human nature is evil" in western countries makes the law involve all aspects, and rules and regulations will force a bad person into a good person. After some privileged people immigrate to New Zealand, the psychological gap in all aspects will make them miss their homeland.
The poor can bear hardships and have a strong heart. The hardships and setbacks they suffered in China in the past taught them to face the difficulties in the process of immigration more rationally. As long as their pockets are poor and their heads are not poor, then this is your paradise. The Chinese nation is the most industrious nation in the world. Being unknown, down-to-earth, and hardworking all their lives are the excellent qualities of countless people in China, but sadly, kind people are often made mistakes.
Compared with New Zealand, foreigners are lazy. After a period of hard work, most people in China can easily realize their dream of owning a house and a car from scratch, and travel around the world in their spare time, so that the whole family can realize their dream of a better life on the other side of the globe.
New Zealand's fair and reasonable social system can also turn the efforts of most people into labor-saving levers instead of laborious poles. The concept of living in the cracks in the past will no longer exist. There are no people who lack ambition here, and self-reliant workers are glorious. A friend from Fujian, with a primary school education, came to New Zealand on a labor visa a few years ago. After less than five years of hard work, he is now the owner of two supermarkets, three gas stations and 1 farm, and his family immigrated to New Zealand. If there is no money and resources, it is doomed to have courage and perseverance that ordinary people do not have, and boldly take the first step. Fortunately, I see that most of my friends basically have this quality, which makes me respect it.
The income difference of the same ordinary labor is huge; Living on the same earth, but with different dignity. For the poor, there is no need for privilege, just the equality of all beings.
In order to provide for the elderly and the happy growth of the next generation, countless people spend their youth here because they believe that the future is worth looking forward to, and all the struggles are meaningful in the end.
The sandwich layer is between the rich and the poor. These people have certain assets and stable jobs in China, but they have no hope and expectation for their future life. In order to make life more exciting and make the next generation live better, many people in this group also have the idea of immigration. For most people, immigration is a very challenging plan. In order to get a new life, you need to pay and face all kinds of uncertainties. Hesitation often occurs in the sandwich layer and runs through the whole immigration process. Once you encounter hesitation and frustration, you will immediately think of a decent life in China. Why are you working hard here? Are you going or staying? Swinging, this psychological gap will affect your life direction.
In fact, people are doing two things all their lives: waiting and choosing. If you give up going back to China, it means that you may return to the state of no expectation and no change. After a while, maybe the idea of immigration will come up again.
Garden houses can be seen everywhere, and the housing area of ordinary people is 500-800 square meters. 1999 Permanent land rights or property rights.
Almost all New Zealand families are good at taking care of their own small gardens and lawns.
Land and houses in New Zealand are private property. In case of unlawful infringement, you can use looting to defend yourself. )
Implement the immigration plan
No matter which way you apply for immigration, you must meet the relevant conditions. When applying for immigration in China, most people seek skilled immigrants. People who are already in New Zealand have a wider choice after a period of hard work. People who study abroad, work, emigrate from marriage, start a business or invest can stay in New Zealand for a long time even if they can't get a green card. Being a taxpayer in New Zealand is glorious and respected.
Overseas application
New Zealand skilled immigrants apply overseas from the immigration score. This year (20 1 1) needs 125 to be selected quickly. You can evaluate the score yourself. Generally, applying for a green card in China risks being directly rejected (mainly because there is no employer contract in New Zealand), but many people apply for a green card directly in China every year, and some even have children. Therefore, as long as the score is enough, it is still worth a try. Only when the application is submitted can there be hope, and the hope of not submitting is equal to zero. Moreover, the policy has been tightening in recent years, and there is still a chance now, and there may be no chance in the future. Many people hesitate and lose the opportunity forever.
Application after entry
If the conditions are limited, the chances of finding a way to get a green card after entering the country will be much greater. For most people, how to find a way to enter New Zealand is an important issue, which I will talk about in detail later.
Working immigrants
The first is working immigrants. If applicants have entered New Zealand, they can find jobs related to their major, and most of them can apply for green cards directly. New Zealand's skilled migration system is relatively flexible. Regardless of whether the applicant has academic qualifications or not, the focus is on employment. Simply put, you are engaged in a technical job, you can support yourself and pay taxes to the country, which shows that you are a person who has contributed to New Zealand. Therefore, having a skilled job in New Zealand is the focus of applying for skilled immigrants, even if the score is 105, you can choose. Most people who apply for skilled migration in China basically lack a job security in New Zealand if their scores are not enough, so deciding whether to enter the country has become an important choice. A friend in my blog said that he got a green card in about 90 days because he didn't get enough marks in China and found a job very smoothly after entering the country.
Let me briefly talk about how to determine whether your major is easy to find employment in New Zealand. You don't need to ask anyone, just do your own research. Sometimes, even if you ask a lot of people, you may not have the right answer, and some misleading answers may even give you a great blow, so you should keep thinking independently. There are three ways to determine whether your major is easy to find employment:
First of all, the list of jobs in short supply in New Zealand defined by the New Zealand Ministry of Labor and the New Zealand Immigration Bureau, the occupations on this list belong to jobs in short supply in New Zealand, in other words, these jobs are long-term poverty.
Secondly, look at the job market survey report of the New Zealand Department of Labor, which is a job database covering all walks of life. You can learn about the employment prospects, salary income, what qualifications are generally needed for this position, and which schools offer relevant academic courses. Click on related industries and positions to enter. The information is quite complete. You can study it slowly when you have time.
Finally, the most direct way is to check the local job recruitment websites in New Zealand. There are two largest recruitment websites in New Zealand: seek.co.nz and trademe.co.nz.
. Search for related positions directly. If you can't find relevant recruitment at all, it means that it is difficult to find employment. If the score is lower than 20, it means that the employment prospects are average; If the result exceeds 50, it means good. Secondly, look at the recruitment requirements and recruitment time. If the recruitment information lasts for 20 -50 days, it still hasn't been removed, indicating a shortage of talents.
Through the above three surveys, I believe you will know what the employment prospects are.
Before you leave, you can also directly try to send your resume to the recruitment website above. Many employers in New Zealand can accept SKYPE or MSN video interviews. If you can make an appointment for a job before you leave, it will greatly save your time and energy.
Study abroad immigrants
If it is difficult for domestic majors to find employment in New Zealand, such as English major, Chinese language major, law major, etc. Some majors are limited by policy and cultural differences, so it is really difficult to find employment in New Zealand. At this time, only consider taking a course in New Zealand and seeking overseas immigrants. If you have good IELTS scores and high academic qualifications, you can consider going to graduate school.
Graduation certificate (post-bachelor course), you can enter the school directly across majors and graduate in one year. Those with low IELTS or academic qualifications can consider reading a two-year certificate or a junior college. The admission requirements of universities and polytechnics in New Zealand are relatively relaxed, and almost everyone can choose suitable courses for further study. After graduation in the local area, New Zealand has good follow-up policy support, and has a work visa of up to 3-4 years after graduation. During this period, after meeting the requirements, you can apply for skilled migration. Simply put, as long as you apply for skilled migration, if you are in New Zealand, it is necessary to have a job that matches your major. Immigration is unlikely to absorb an unemployed person as a citizen.
When choosing immigrants to study abroad, it should be noted that the current new policy no longer allows you to apply for a green card directly after studying abroad. You must be able to find a job related to your major before you can submit an immigration application after graduation. Before that, many people were sought-after immigration courses, and they could get green cards directly one year after graduation. In 2008, many people got green cards by studying in New Zealand. For example, they applied for a one-year college course in horticulture, and private schools were exempted from IELTS, with tuition less than 65,438+10,000. The cost of getting a green card is really low, but this good thing is gone forever. With the current policy, we must keep an eye on the employment rate, and the employment prospects can be judged by the methods mentioned in the previous job migration.
Finally, it is emphasized that after the new policy, the ultimate goal of studying abroad is immigration. If the applicant has good conditions, after arriving in New Zealand, try to find a job first and apply for skilled immigrants directly after obtaining the employer's guarantee. If it is really difficult to find a job, then consider studying abroad.
Living in New Zealand
In addition to working immigrants and overseas immigrants, if you are not in a hurry to get a green card, you can live in New Zealand first. There are many ways to stay in New Zealand legally. The main difference is that if you don't have a green card, you can't enjoy all benefits. In addition, there seems to be no other influence (you can buy a car, get married, have children, buy a house, buy a house, work and live without a green card, etc.) )
Living in New Zealand for a long time, the main difficulty is to always hold a legal visa, but one advantage of New Zealand is that it can repeatedly apply for various visas to stay in New Zealand, so many people have experienced many kinds of visas before getting a green card, such as student visas, work visas, graduate visas, tourist visas and language visas, which are all interchangeable.
Of course, I don't encourage staying in New Zealand aimlessly. It's a waste of time. Anyway, staying in New Zealand must have its own purpose. Generally speaking, most people still want to get a green card, but the conditions are not mature, so they have been staying in New Zealand to accumulate qualifications. However, some of them are not for green cards, but for saving money. I have met those who have stayed in New Zealand for many years, mainly to pay for their children to study in Canada, although she only works as a cleaner in New Zealand (it is impossible for ordinary people to earn money at home for their children to study abroad).
Generally speaking, the visas for legally staying in New Zealand are mainly student visas and work visas, and student visas are divided into languages and courses. At present, New Zealand has a language visa for half a year, mainly studying English full-time in language schools, and the tuition is not expensive. The cheapest is about $65,438+NZD 0.500, working 20 hours a week; Followed by courses, the cheapest is the business school, which costs around NZ $4,000 a year and also has 20 hours of working time every week.
Let's talk about the work visa. Many people don't know about work visas in New Zealand. There are many kinds of work visas in New Zealand, which are easy to be confused. Generally speaking, there are two kinds: the first is the skill work permit for technical jobs; The second is to engage in non-technical work visas. Note that what I am mainly discussing here is the work visa that people can apply for in order to stay in New Zealand legally.
No matter what visa you have, you can apply for a work visa to stay in New Zealand for a long time as long as you find a job. The main difference is that it is a little more difficult to apply for a skilled work visa, because skilled work visas are all jobs with higher income. New Zealand does not want overseas workers to occupy too many local jobs, so the conditions are stricter, mainly because it needs to prove that no local residents apply for this position, and only applicants are suitable for this position. Theoretically, technical jobs can apply for a five-year work visa at most. Ordinary work visas are basically unskilled jobs, such as car drivers, salesmen, cleaners, ranch workers, hospital nurses or other ordinary workers. These jobs belong to grass-roots workers, with a wide job market and a large number of employees. There is no problem of grabbing the jobs of local people, so it is easy to apply. Generally, as long as you find it through the job advertisement, there will be no big problem.
Secondly, one of the biggest differences between a skilled worker visa and an ordinary worker visa is that a skilled worker visa can apply for skilled immigrants. Ordinary workers can't apply for skilled immigrants on visas because their jobs are not technical, but the latter can easily find jobs and apply for visas. Therefore, it is worth recommending saving money to work (saving money to study abroad, saving money to start a business) or staying in New Zealand legally.
New Zealand general entry visa:
1. tourist visa
This kind of entry visa is one of the entry visas with low application requirements, and there are no academic requirements, English requirements and age requirements for the applicant. There are many situations that fall into this category, such as self-help tours to New Zealand, visiting relatives and friends, business trips and so on. If you have this visa, you can change it before it expires. This visa can only be applied in China.
The biggest feature of this visa is that it is suitable for a wide range of people. Most applicants who do not meet other visas apply for this visa.
2. Student visa
This visa is required to enroll in courses in New Zealand, and the funding requirements are slightly higher (tuition). Generally speaking, it is easier to apply for this kind of visa in China if you are under 30 years old or choose a higher level of education (such as master's degree), and you have basic academic requirements, and most courses have IELTS English entrance requirements. Student visas can be applied overseas or at home.
Secondly, language visas also belong to this category, with low capital requirements and no academic age requirements, but the success rate of domestic applications is low, and it is easier for ordinary people to apply in New Zealand.
3. Work visa-cooperation relationship.
This visa requires the spouse to take advanced courses in New Zealand or engage in technical work in New Zealand, which can guarantee entry and enjoy the right to work. The duration of the visa is generally the same as that of the guarantor.
4. Work visa-China working holiday visa.
This is a work visa without employer's guarantee. The basic requirement is that the applicant is under 3 1, with an IELTS score of 5.5 and a high school education or above. This visa came into being after China and New Zealand signed a free trade agreement. The New Zealand government promises to allow 65,438+0,000 young citizens of China to work and study in New Zealand every year, that is, to work while traveling. To put it bluntly, young people from China are allowed to visit New Zealand. You can change your visa before it expires. This visa can only be applied in China. This kind of visa is subject to quota restrictions. China has 1 0,000 applicants every year. For private applications, you must have a quota to get a visa.
New Zealand holiday work visa should be one of the easiest visas to enter New Zealand so far, and its popularity has paralyzed the website system of the Immigration Bureau several times. The biggest feature of this visa is that you can work and change visas after entering the country. Many holders work for one year after entering the country to save their tuition fees and then transfer to another school. Secondly, you can apply for the right of abode if you find a job directly and meet the relevant conditions.
5, silver fern visa (WorkVisa-SilverFernPolicy)
This is an entry job visa for skilled immigrants, and no employer guarantee is required. The basic requirement is that the applicant is under 36 years old, with a bachelor's degree and an IELTS score of 6.5. After entering New Zealand, if you find a professional counterpart, you can apply for skilled migration. This visa has a quota limit, with 300 places worldwide every year. The application is not open, and you must have a quota to apply. This visa can only be applied outside New Zealand.
The biggest feature of this visa is that you can work for a long time after entering the country, and you can also change your visa. Many holders can apply for the right of abode if they find a job and meet the relevant conditions after entering the country.
6. China Skilled Worker Work Visa (China Skilled Worker Policy)
This is also a visa type produced after China and Singapore signed a free trade agreement. This is a work visa that requires an employer's guarantee. Occupation: auditor, automotive electrician, boat manufacturer, computer application engineer, electronic product, design engineer, diesel engine technician, kindergarten teacher, electronic product technician, electrician, film animation, lathe worker, welder, medical radiologist, automobile engine technician, plumber and registered nurse. If the applicant belongs to the above occupations, he can seek job opportunities in China and apply for such visas as long as he receives the job invitation from his employer.
This visa can bring your spouse's children with basic benefits, and children can go to school in New Zealand for free.
7. China Work Visa-China Special Work Policy.
Ditto, this is also the visa type after China and Singapore signed the FTA. This is a work visa that requires an employer's guarantee. These occupations include