Election year:
2023
Political party:
New Zealand First
Policy:
Immigration
- Ensure that Kiwi workers are at the front of the job queue.
- Guarantee that immigration policy is based on New Zealand’s interests such as meeting critical skill gaps.
- Maintain parent category visa cap at 1000 and ensure that sponsors can adequately support and fund their family during and after migration.
- Continue to develop strategies that encourage regionally dispersed immigration so that it lessens the burden on already overloaded urban cities.
- Investigate a ‘skills of absolute shortage’ visa category to replace the incumbent skills shortage list.
- Ensure that regionalised skills shortage lists reflect and are consistent with COVID-19 recovery efforts.
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