Acceptable standard of health for the grant of New Zealand residence

Under current immigration residence criteria all individuals included in an application for New Zealand permanent residence are required to demonstrate that they have an acceptable standard of health for the grant of New Zealand residence, or, failing this, they qualify for a "medical waiver".

The current list of health conditions which indicate that an individual is not of the acceptable standard of health is as follows:

BMI Calculator

BMI means Body Mass Index. It is a measure of the proportion of body fat to total body weight, and it is used to define healthy and unhealthy weight ranges.

https://www.kiwicover.co.nz/your-health/bmi/calculator

Fake Immigration New Zealand website scam

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Immigration New Zealand has been made aware of a new scam website. The website appears to be a direct copy of the home page of the official Immigration New Zealand website, with a slight change in the domain name.

PM announces immigration rule change

The Government is not sure how many migrants will settle outside of Auckland as a result of its announced change in immigration policy

Homeschooling

Homeschooling is an option in NZ. Parents and caregivers who want to educate their child at home need to first get approval from their local Ministry of Education office.

http://parents.education.govt.nz/secondary-school/secondary-schooling-in-nz/homeschooling/

How you get a car licence

There are three stages to getting a car licence. At each stage you earn a new licence with fewer restrictions and more responsibilities:
Stage 1: learner licence
Stage 2: restricted licence
Stage 3: full licence.

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/licence/getting/cars/car-licence.html

Salary Data & Career Research Center (New Zealand)

Salary Data & Career Research Centre (New Zealand)

Do career research and find in-depth salary data for specific jobs, employers, schools, and more. Know what you're looking for? Start a search below,

http://www.payscale.com/research/NZ/Country=New_Zealand/Salary

Anti-Auckland immigration policies?

The Government is considering changing its immigration policy to encourage more migrants to settle in the regions, rather than in Auckland.

NZ migration hits new annual record

The number of people coming to live in New Zealand has reached new record highs.

Official figures show the country had a net gain of 56,800 people in the year to April - well up from the 34,400 the previous year and and 4800 in the April 2013 year.

Auckland International Airport

Photo: RNZ

More people arrived from India, China and Britain. About three-quarters of migrants from India, and half of migrants from China, arrived on student visas.

Migrant arrivals were up 16 percent from the April 2014 year, while departures were down 11 percent.

For the April month, New Zealand had a seasonally adjusted net gain - or more arrivals than departures - of 4700 people.

From September 2012 to October 2014, net migration was positive and mostly increasing, Statistics New Zealand says.

This was mainly due to fewer New Zealand citizens leaving for Australia, and more non-New Zealand citizens arriving.

New Zealand had a net inflow of 100 migrants from Australia in April 2015 - the first month New Zealand has had a net gain from Australia since 1991.

The net loss of 1900 people to Australia in the April 2015 year was the smallest since 1992.

Analysts say higher immigration should help alleviate skill shortages but also put more pressure on housing markets.

High numbers of Indian students have helped drive the rise in people migrating here.

The number of migrants arriving on student visas from India was up 5200 in the year to April.

Richard Goodall from the Auckland Institute of Studies said most tertiary students there were from India, whereas until recently most came from China.

Nationwide, more than twice as many people arrived on student visas (8,500) than people on work visas (3,900) in the year to April.

All you document translation needs

Plz go near Aluthkade court area in Colombo. There are so many places which you can get your translations done for cheap rates and faster too.

Skill shortage list 2015

http://skillshortages.immigration.govt.nz/assets/uploads/long-term-skill-shortage-list-2015-03-30-.pdf

Find A Job NZ

General vacancies

neuvoo

Your job search starts here.

Seek
Job vacancies from employers across New Zealand and Australia.

Trade Me Jobs
Jobs advertised on New Zealand’s equivalent of ebay.

Workpool
A portal for job seekers and recruiters. Job seekers register on the website and create a profile viewable to recruiters.

General recruitment agencies

Adecco
Job search by location.

Advanced Personnel
Engineering, roading, stores/warehousing, and building and construction.

Drake
Recruitment Agency

Enterprise Consulting
New Zealand full service recruitment and Human Resources Agency.

Frog Recruitment
Accounting & finance, business support services, human resources, information technology, marketing & communications, operations and sales.

Hudson
General recruitment.

Kelly
A range of industry sectors, including office, industrial, engineering, human resources, executive management, contact centre and information technology

Kinetic Recruitment
Temporary, part-time, and permanent jobs.

Lawson Williams Consulting Group
Vacancies in a range of industries.

Madison
Generalist Recruitment Agency.

Martin Personnel
Executive, commercial, technical, trade, industrial and events and hospitality.

OCG
With specialist teams in Accounting and finance, business support, business transformation, contracting, financial services, fmcg, human resources and legal, manufacturing and industrial, public sector, retail and wholesale, sales and marketing, services, and supply chain and operations

Ryan
Recruitment in Accounting and finance, business support and administration, engineering and operations, information and communication technology (ict), insurance, management, manufacturing and production, sales – technical and fmcg, warehousing and logistics.

Arts and media

The Big Idea
Jobs and opportunities in the creative sector.

Military

Defence Careers
The navy, army and air force.

Education

Education Personnel
A recruitment agency specialising in education vacancies.

NZ Education Gazette
Education and teaching positions.

Oasis Education Ltd
An employment agency for teachers (especially Auckland).

Engineering, construction, and transport

Automotive Employment New Zealand Ltd
A recruitment agency specialising in automotive recruitment in New Zealand’s motor industry.

BusJobs.co.nz
For people wanting to work with buses.

Campbell and Partners
Recruitment search and selection specialist for people employed in the automotive, heavy diesel plant, equipment and marine industries.

Career Engineer
Specialising in engineering and technical vacancies.

CRS Recruit
Specialising in engineering vacancies in Auckland.

Dare Contract Services
Specialising in the oil and gas, mining and infrastructure industries.

Engineer Network Group
Engineering jobs in New Zealand, Australia, and beyond.

jobhunt.co.nz
The Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) website with engineering job vacancies.

Jobsmith
Specialising in technical and trade recruitment.

Match2
Mainly engineers (professional and technician level) and electronics.

Refocus Recruitment
Engineer, technical staff, and tradespeople recruitment.

Rob Law Max Recruitment
Engineering, technical and infrastructure recruitment.

Tandr Recruitment
Specialising in engineering, construction, and infrastructure recruitment.

Technical Recruitment Solutions
Engineering vacancies recruitment.

Tradestaff
Temporary and permanent trades jobs.

Farming, fishing, forestry and mining

Seasonal Work NZ
Vacancies in orchards, packhouses, vineyards, restaurants, tourism, hotels, food processing and farms.

AgCareers.com
Agricultural jobs.

Equus Connect
Horse jobs in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.

Fegan and Co
Recruitment for the farming sector.

FRENZ Recruitment
Farming employment specialising in the dairy sector.

Friday Offcuts
Forestry jobs in New Zealand and Australia.

Conservation Jobs
Job vacancies in the conservation industry.

PickNZ
Seasonal and full-time work in the horticulture industry.

Government

Localgovernmentcareers.govt.nz
Job vacancies in local government in New Zealand.

Jobs.govt.nz
The Government’s job website.

The Johnson Group
Specialising in policy, management, contracting, and related areas.

Health and care

Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
Listings of senior medical and dental vacancies in New Zealand hospitals and health services.

Au Pair Link
Recruitment of au pairs for New Zealand and overseas.

Carefinder
Jobs in childcare, petcare, special needs, homecare, tutoring, hanymen, house-sitting, gardening and senior care.

Do Good Jobs
Jobs in the not-for-profit and charity sectors.

Execucare
Recruitment for charities and not-for-profit organisations.

FIT
Job vacancies in the New Zealand fitness and exercise industry.

Geneva Health
Recruitment in health, nursing and staffing in New Zealand, Australia, Middle East, UK.

HealthJobsNZ
Public and private health care vacancies.

Health ProfessionalNZ
Health jobs recruitment agency.

Kiwi Health Jobs
Health sector jobs.

KiwiOz Nannies 
A company that fills childcare vacancies in NZ and overseas.

Kiwis STAT
Recruitment company for locum doctors, consultants and nurses, offering work in New Zealand, and Australia.

Lanz Recruitment
Specialising in recruitment of health professionals.

Life Recruitment
Nurses, qualified social workers, locum doctors, home care and community support workers recruitment.

Medacs Healthcare
Health jobs.

NZLocums
GP and nurse practitioner vacancies in rural New Zealand.

NZMedics
Doctor vacancies.

Psych Recruitment
Psychology, corrections and mental health.

IT Jobs in New Zealand

AbsoluteIT
Recruitment Agency with offices in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and London.

Beyond
IT, accounting, marketing and communications, telecommunications and engineering, and government.

Candle New Zealand
Information technology and communications industry.

Comspek
Recruitment of IT and telecommunications professionals.

Geekzone
Jobs offered in IT.

MCC People
ICT jobs search.

Pinnacle Recruitment
Information and Telecommunications (ICT) industry recruitment.

Sabre NZ
Permanent and contract recruitment.

Searchworks Ltd
IT and software engineering jobs.

Legal Jobs

Law Staff
Legal Positions

Professionals, executive, and business

Alpha Recruitment
A recruitment agency specialising in executive roles.

Connex Recruitment
A recruitment company based in Auckland, specialising in administration staff, sales, finance, customer service, and other related roles.

DG and A
Recruitment consultancy specialising in Accounting, Banking and Finance.

Durno
Accounting/Managerial recruitment.

ODG Recruitment International
Recruitment agency for employment in New Zealand – Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch.

Pohlenkean
An executive recruitment agency.

Rice Consulting
A recruitment agency specialising in staff for other businesses in the recruitment industry.

Sheffield
A recruitment agency specialising in accounting, finance, marketing, sales, human resources, production/technical and management vacancies.

The Ultimate Recruitment Company
A recruitment agency for sales and marketing, support, operations and management roles.

Wheeler Campbell
A recruitment agency specialising in recruitment and human resource advice.

Wholeoranges Consulting
Specialising in staff for executive, managerial and administrative positions.

Region specific jobs

Able Personnel
Recruitment for Napier & Hastings, Hawke’s Bay.

Fanselow Bell
Recruitment Nelson.

GBL Personnel
Specialises in office support staff in the Wellington region.

New Kiwis
New Kiwis is an Auckland Chamber of Commerce job-site specifically aimed at placing new migrants with employers.

Otago Daily Times job listings
Jobs in Otago.

Sterling HR Outsourcing Ltd
Recruitment agency in Palmerston North.

Tourism, hospitality, and recreation

Adventure Jobs New Zealand
Vacancies in the adventure tourism and outdoor sectors.

Hospotrade
Hospitality vacancies.

http://www.enz.org/find-a-job-nz.html

New Zealand Bank Swift Codes

New Zealand Bank Swift Codes

Swift Code is a standard format of Bank Identifier Codes (BIC) and it is unique identification code for a particular bank. These codes are used when transferring money between banks, particularly for international wire transfers. Banks also used the codes for exchanging other messages between them.

How to get Australian Transit Visa

The Transit visa (subclass 771) lets you transit through Australia for no longer than 72 hours if you need to pass through Australia on your way to another country

Check list -
 http://www.srilanka.embassy.gov.au/files/clmb/Checklist%20771%20-%20Sri%20Lanka%2010.07.2013.pdf

Application form -
http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/771.aspx

Warning to people who choose Cathay Pacific airline to travel to New Zealand

Cathay Pacific airline does not have direct flights to New Zealand. There for passengers do have to transit either Melbourne, Brisbane or Hong Kong. You MUST HAVE Australian transit visa to transit via Melbourne or Brisbane. and if your transit hours are exceeding more than 12 hours you MUST HAVE Hong Kong transit visa. To get Australian transit visa it takes 3 weeks.  

Cathay Pacific Srilankan office will not give you these information until you purchase the tickets. May be not until you inquire. This might due to novice ticketing officers or purposely. Be aware.

Tips on Working in New Zealand

By Galia BarHava-Monteith

Applying for a certificate of approval - COA

Applying for a certificate of approval

Essential skills in demand list review 2014

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has completed its annual review of two of the Essential Skills in Demand (ESID) Lists – the Long Term Skill Shortage List (LTSSL) and the Immediate Skill Shortage List (ISSL). The Ministry regularly reviews the ESID lists to ensure that they meet the changing needs of the labour market, and to ensure opportunities for New Zealanders first. Changes will be made to these lists in March 2015.

Essential skills in demand list review 2014

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has completed its annual review of two of the Essential Skills in Demand (ESID) Lists – the Long Term Skill Shortage List (LTSSL) and the Immediate Skill Shortage List (ISSL). The Ministry regularly reviews the ESID lists to ensure that they meet the changing needs of the labour market, and to ensure opportunities for New Zealanders first. Changes will be made to these lists in March 2015.

Long Term Skill Shortage List

The LTSSL identifies occupations that have an absolute (sustained and ongoing) shortage of skilled workers both globally and throughout New Zealand. Migrants who gain employment in one of these occupations may be granted a work visa under the LTSSL Work to Residence or Essential Skills instructions. Migrants applying for residence under the Skilled Migrant Category may gain bonus points towards their application if they have an offer of employment, work experience or qualifications in an area of absolute skill shortage identified on the LTSSL.

The outcomes of the review of the LTSSL are to:

• retain six occupations which were reviewed:
  • General Practitioner
  • Physicist (Medical)
  • Registered Nurse (Aged Care)
  • Registered Nurse (Critical Care and Emergency)
  • Registered Nurse (Medical)
  • Registered Nurse (Perioperative)

The qualifications for using the LTSSL for Registered Nurses in Critical Care and Emergency, Medical, and Perioperative will be tightened to require five years relevant work experience (currently three years) to ensure that migrants are not competing with New Zealand nurse graduates for entry level positions.

• remove External Auditor
• remove the following 19 occupations for which there have been very low volumes of work visas over the last five years and for which other immigration options are more suited -
  

  Aeronautical Engineer	Life Scientist nec (Animal Scientist or Bioinformatics)
  Agricultural Engineer	Marine Designer
  Agricultural Scientist (Farm Systems Scientist)	Medical Oncologist
  Biomedical Engineer	Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum)
  Biotechnologist (Genetics Scientist)	Network Analyst
  Cardiac Technician (Clinical Cardiac Physiologist including Perfusionist)	Nuclear Medicine Technologist
  Educational Psychologist	Radiation Oncologist
  Intensive Care Specialist	Social Professional nec (Applied Social Scientist)
  Life Scientist (Regulatory Toxicologist)	Transport Engineer
  Life Scientist nec (Anatomist or Physiologist (Clinical Respiratory Physiologist/Scientist))

  
  nec’ means Not Elsewhere Classified

• remove two occupations (Construction Project Manager (Chip sealing, Asphalt or other Technical Manager) (Roading and Infrastructure) and Environmental Research Scientist (Water Quality Analyst)) which have separate over-lapping listings on the LTSSL and are therefore redundant
• move University Lecturer from the LTSSL to the ISSL.

Immediate Skill Shortage List

The ISSL identifies occupations that have an immediate shortage of skilled workers either throughout New Zealand or in certain regions. Migrants wishing to work in occupations on the ISSL may be granted work visas under Essential Skills instructions if they meet the specified qualifications and/or experience requirements.

The outcomes of the review of the ISSL are to:

• retain Resident Medical Officer. The qualifications for using the ISSL will be tightened to require two years relevant work experience (currently one year) to ensure that migrants are not competing with New Zealand medical graduates for entry level positions.
  
• remove the following 23 occupations for which there have been very low volumes of work visas over the last five years and for which other immigration options are more suited –
  
  

  Biotechnologist	Maintenance Planner
  Cardiothoracic Surgeon	Microbiologist
  Clinical Coder	Mixed Crop Farmer
  Clinical Haematologist	Neurologist
  Dental Therapist	Neurosurgeon
  Dermatologist	Otorhinolaryngologist
  Earth Science Technician	Paediatric Surgeon
  Electronic Engineering Draftsperson	Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
  Electronic Instrument Trades Worker (Special Class)	Thoracic Medicine Specialist
  Endocrinologist	Urologist
  Gastroenterologist	Vascular Surgeon
  Logging Plant Operator

• remove External Auditor^[1] and Flying Instructor (Glider Pilot Instructor)
• remove Other Sports Coach or Instructor (Skydive Instructor) which has a separate over-lapping listing on the ISSL.

Submissions to add Café or Restaurant Manager to the ISSL were declined.

Timing of Changes

The ESID changes will take effect in the next operational policy release in March 2015. Further work is currently being carried out to review the requirements which migrants need to satisfy to apply for a work visa or a residence visa using the skill shortage lists. This includes a review of qualifications in association with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, and some other changes to ensure that the requirements for using the lists are appropriate for the shortages.

Other Immigration Options

Removal from a skill shortage list does not mean that migrants cannot come to New Zealand. Other immigration options are available for employers and prospective migrants. These include:

• Essential Skills work visa policy (subject to an employer demonstrating that they have tried to recruit New Zealanders for the position and been unsuccessful)
• Accredited Employer - facilitating recruitment of skilled workers from overseas where the salary is at least NZ$55,000 per annum. This option provides a pathway to residence.
• Approval in Principle – where a number of migrants are being sought
• Skilled Migrant Category – under which migrants can apply for residence in New Zealand.

The Canterbury Skills and Employment Hub can facilitate employment of New Zealanders in Canterbury, and if there are no suitable applicants, can facilitate visa applications for migrant workers. Also, the Canterbury Skill Shortage List contains some occupations in shortage for the Canterbury rebuild (in addition those on the ISSL and LTSSL).

Other Matters

The Essential Skills in Demand Lists are reviewed and updated regularly in order to ensure that the Ministry’s policy is flexible and responsive to changing economic and labour market conditions.  As part of reviews, information is gathered from submissions made by external stakeholders and this is considered alongside economic, labour market and immigration data.  It is important that the lists reflect genuine skill shortages so New Zealanders are not disadvantaged in seeking employment and training.

You can test whether an occupation is on any of the three shortage lists or on the list of occupations recognised for residence applications under the Skilled Migrant Category by using the skill shortage list checker. This provides information and the requirements for each of the lists.

We expect the next ESID review to commence in April 2015.

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^[1] External Auditor is being removed from both the LTSSL and ISSL

Page Last Updated: 16 Dec 2014

How much money you can take out from sri lanka

 1. A person may bring any sum of money in foreign currencies into Sri Lanka. This sum could be in TCs, Bank drafts or currency notes. However, if the total of such sum exceeds US$ 15,000 such sum should be declared to the Sri Lanka Customs.

Due to new government this amount has been reduce to US$10,000/-

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