The advertisement proudly announced that Immigration had a new strategy and was realigning its organisational structure to reflect that. Apart from the vocational component, the advertisement was also a communication to the outside world that things are changing at Immigration. 123RF Immigration processing has slowed down. Looking at the Immigration website as I write this column, the essential skills work visa processing time is four months for 95 per cent of applications. Consolidating visa processing in regional hubs should enable processing based on time of receipt rather than being constrained by country issues.

Source: Stuff July 19, 2019 15:56 UTC