Announcing Strategic Working Relationship with Grow Wellington

We are excited to announce our working relationship with Grow Wellington - a semi-government agency with an objective to attract investment into the Wellington Region. Success Global will closely work with Grow Wellington to identity potential investment opportunities for its clients who are interested in investing in either current businesses or setting up new businesses under various business migration categories in Wellington. Grow Wellington is staffed with highly experienced business and investment consultants who have significant business experience as well as experience working for government departments such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We are very exciting about our future relationship with Grow Wellington and strongly believe it will add great value to our clients’ business investment decisions.

You can read more about Grow Wellington at www.growwellington.co.nz.

Immigration New Zealand joins eMedical

Immigration New Zealand has joined eMedical, an online immigration health processing system developed by Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. eMedical will replace INZ’s existing paper-based medical certificates, and will be used by INZ’s panel physicians.

eMedical is used by panel physicians to record results of an applicants’ immigration medical examination. This information is provided to Immigration New Zealand through a secure online channel.

Why eMedical?

eMedical will save time and costs for Immigration New Zealand and its customers. It provides a secure online channel for a visa applicant’s health information. In most cases, this information will not need manual assessment by immigration officers.

The current paper-based manual process for processing and assessing immigration health information is slow and costly and it’s a significant barrier to achieving timely visa decisions.

What are the benefits of eMedical?

Eliminating paper medical certificates will help Immigration New Zealand cut application processing times, reducing administrative overhead costs and client follow-up queries.

eMedical will shorten the referral process required when an applicant’s medical certificate must be reviewed by a medical assessor. Requests for additional information will be electronically channelled back through eMedical to the applicant’s panel physician, improving the customer experience by eliminating the current Immigration New Zealand’s “middle man” step.

When will eMedical be introduced?

eMedical is being rolled out in a staged approach from November 24, with the system and new business processes tested on a group of six offshore countries in the first stage. These countries are Cambodia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

eMedical will have a second rollout stage at the end of January 2015 to all offshore eMedical-enabled countries. The final rollout stage will be onshore in New Zealand from the end of March 2015, coinciding with the establishment of Immigration New Zealand’s new onshore panel physician network.

From the end of March 2015, the majority of medicals in support of a visa application will be submitted electronically by Immigration New Zealand’s panel physicians and be triaged, and decided in most cases by the Immigration Health System.

Alternative English Language Tests for Visa Applicants to Australia

From 23 November 2014, the department will accept English language test scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-based test (TOEFL iBT) and the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) across the Temporary Graduate, Skilled, Former Resident, and Work and Holiday visa programmes.

Scores from the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) test will also be accepted from a test taken on or after 1 January 2015 (to coincide with the launch of Cambridge English Language Assessment's new reporting system).

These tests are alternatives to the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the Occupational English Test (OET), and have been accepted in the Student visa programme since 2011.

Student visa applicants can continue to provide scores from the IELTS, OET, TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic or Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) tests.

Review of Essential Skills in Demand List - 2014 Review

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:

1. 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.

2. remove External Auditor

3. 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))    

4. 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

5. move University Lecturer from the LTSSL to the ISSL.

Australian Skilled Regional (Provisional) Visa - 489

The Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489) is for skilled people who want to live and work in a specified designated area in Australia.

Successful applicants are granted a four year temporary visa to give them time to satisfy the residence and employment criteria for a permanent visa.

Applicants (including secondary applicants) must live, work and study only in a specified regional area of Australia for at least two years.

Further information on the requirements for the Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489) is available on the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) or call your nearest Success Global office for a confidential chat with our Licensed Immigration Adviser.

Entrepreneur Work Visas (NZ)

If you’re an experienced businessperson interested in being self-employed in your own business, the New Zealand Entrepreneur Work Visas could be for you.

Most people start out on an Entrepreneur Work Visa, which allows you to move to New Zealand and buy or establish a business. After either six months or two years you can then apply for residence under the Entrepreneur Residence Category.

Entrepreneur Work Visa

This three year work visa is structured in two stages:

Start-up stage: If your application is approved, you will initially be given a 12-month work visa, enabling you to buy or establish your business in New Zealand.

Balance stage: Once you have proven that you have taken steps to establish your business, you're granted the remaining 24 months of your visa.

Requirements for this visa include:

·         minimum capital investment of NZ$100,000 (excluding working capital),

·         120 points or more, with points awarded for factors about the likely success of the business and its value to New Zealand,

·         clear business plan,

·         clean recent history of bankruptcy, business failure and fraud,

·         health, character and English language requirements, and

·         Entrepreneur Work Visa | Immigration New Zealand

Residence for entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneur Residence Category allows you to live in New Zealand permanently if you have established a high growth and innovative business with export potential in New Zealand. There are two ways of qualifying for residence under this policy:

Entrepreneur Residence Category (2 years) - Requires you to have successfully established or purchased a business in New Zealand and have been self-employed in that business for at least two years, and for your business to have significantly benefited New Zealand.

Entrepreneur Residence Category (6 months) - This option provides a faster track to residence if you have invested at least NZ$500,000 in your business and have created a minimum of three new full-time jobs for New Zealand citizens or residents.

Under both options, you need to meet health, character and English language requirements.

Family is included

Partners and dependent children can be granted work and student visas if they are accompanying the holder of an Entrepreneur Work Visa to New Zealand. They can also be included in an Entrepreneur Residence Visa application.

Looking to make a passive investment?

Entrepreneur visas are designed for migrants who want to work full-time in a business they own. If you're looking to invest at least NZ$1.5 million in bonds, stock or other investments, you may be eligible for an investor visa

- Reported from New Zealand Now

Success Global goes GLOBAL

After much anticipation and excitement, Success Global has finally established its first offshore office in Pakistan. All marketing and recruitment activities will be overseen by its Country Office at Peshawar. In the near future, the Islamabad office will become the Country Office with branch offices in all other major cities. Mr. Zahoor Ahmad Afrifidi has been appointed to lead the country office as the Country Manager. All future enquiries from Pakistan will be entertained by the country office. 

Please do feel free to contact your nearest office if you have any immigration related enquiry.