Refugees
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- ACT has supported the increase in the refugee quota and welcomed individuals who share the same tolerance and fairness that makes New Zealand unique.
- Read more here.
- Progressively increase New Zealand’s refugee quota to 4,000 people per year after six years, and properly fund asylum seeker and refugee services.
- Establish a programme for church and community groups to sponsor an additional 1,000 refugees per year.
- Create a new humanitarian visa for people displaced by climate change in the Pacific.
- Build a new refugee resettlement centre. Some of the cost of this new resettlement centre will be covered by requiring high net worth immigrants who gain New Zealand residency under the Investor and Investor Plus categories to invest a portion of their required investments into building, maintaining and running the investment centre.
- Change the system for refugee family reunification from a lottery to one that is compassionate, fair, transparent, and certain, with clearly- published priorities and standards of acceptance
- Read more here and here.
- Double New Zealand's refugee quota over three years.
- Establish an Immigration Pacific Plan that recognises Pacific Climate Change refugees who have been displaced by climate change and global warming to ensure they have real and timely options for mobility across the region.
- Read more here and here.
- Implement greater support for refugees and new immigrants experiencing hardship.
- Increase the refugee quota and prioritise refugee whānau for the Regional Cadetships programme.
- Prioritise the introduction of a climate change refugee category.
- Amend legislation to ensure our framework supports the settlement and integration of newly arrived immigrants and refugees.
- Read more here.
- Increasing the size of the Refugee Quota from 750 to 1000 places from 2018/19.
- Improving refugee outcomes through our Refugee Resettlement Strategy, helping ensure they can settle well and contribute here.
- Piloting a new community based sponsorship programme for refugees with a view to allowing more refugees to come here while ensuring they are well supported.
- Read more here.
- Ensure immigration under ‘family reunion’ is strictly controlled.
- Develop strategies to encourage the regional dispersion of immigration to places other than Auckland and the main centres.
- Make sure effective measures are put in place to stop the exploitation of migrant workers with respect to wages, safety and work conditions. In Christchurch and elsewhere there is evidence of exploitation of migrant workers.
- Read more here.
- Immediately double the refugee quota.
- Gradually move towards a more community-based approach like the one used in Canda, involving local groups, councils, and churches working together on placement, resettlement, employment, educational and health, language and housing issues.
- Dynamically shape our refugee quota over time to reflect those groups, (more than 20 local authorities, as well as the major Churches, and various ethnic and community agencies) which have expressed a willingness to play a role in resettling refugees.
- Investigate humanitarian resettlement plan for the thousands who will be physically displaced by rising sea levels in the Pacific region, such as the Tokelaus, Tuvalu and Kiribati.
- Read more here and here.
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