The incumbent new immigration minister of New Zealand seems to be rather satisfied with the way the national immigration policies are doing. Michael Woodhouse, the minister, claims the volume of time it usually takes to pocket a Work Permit or a Visitor Permit has decreased by 50% even as the waiting time period for a Student Permit has headed south by two thirds in a year. Further, the overall quality of decision-making has also improved with client satisfaction standing at 87% during 2012, vis-à-vis 75% during 2011 & 70% during 2009.
Woodhouse adds that he hopes the Global Service Delivery Model (GSDM) & the Immigration Global Management System (IGMS) will make things even better. He introduced the IGMS a year back in 2012 even while the same will see permit petitions put online, and enable those filing a submission for New Zealand Permits to accordingly manage their accounts for permit petitions distantly.
He continues that the nation is further improving and restructuring its permit submission arrangements with the GSDM arrangement, and that the administration is involving a private domain partner to set-up hubs for permit processing, in the process, bringing about a better, leaner, not to mention superior service.
Canterbury Permits to Be Hurried Through
Woodhouse further says that he will not tamper at all with New Zealanders 1st jobs strategy of the consecutive administrations, adding the permit submissions for the global aspirants for jobs–which are on the Canterbury Skills Shortage List–would be hurried through. He, however, adds that he will make certain that no job is offered to a worker from abroad, prior to checking if any national is to be had for the said job.
He further says that he would take certain fruitful and effective measures to make certain that those jobs on the Canterbury Skills Shortage List exist for good causes, and that the required measures are properly taken to duly train the nationals in the trades given on the list.
Woodhouse continues that even though the decision of Wellington to permit the world students of English, pursuing studies in Christchurch–to get suitably employed for additional hours every week–has boosted and augmented the total number of such students, the administration would not spare any unlawful employee found anywhere across the nation, and come down really hard on them. The minister concludes that since July 2009, the nation has drawn NZ$1.3 billion of probable worldwide investment.
