Migrant family denied visa despite living in NZ for almost 10 yearsKAVINDA HERATH/STUFF Invercargill electorate MP Sarah Dowie says she has received figures from Immigration NZ showing there had been only 1264 applications for the 4000 places available under the scheme. A Southland migrant farmer has had a visa application denied as apparently he did not meet the five-year residency agreement. "Before I tried the skilled migrant category and had no luck with that, with this pathway I had a better chance." "The skilled migrant category at the moment is hard because there are so many requirements for it." "There are a whole lot of people in our province that have had their working visa roll over and roll over and ordinarily wouldn't meet the criteria for a skilled migrant visa."

Source: Stuff December 29, 2017 03:33 UTC