The Detail: New figures show the government has slashed resident visa numbers to the lowest seen in the last two decades. New figures show the Government has slashed resident visa numbers to the lowest seen in the last two decades. But she says the decrease in resident numbers in the last year is largely because of delays in processing. "I think that the National government, as it was then, decided to take a step back… to try and ease off on the temporary work visa numbers. Bonnett says a lot of temporary visa applications are time sensitive, such as holidays, course starts and recruiting foreign workers.

Source: Stuff July 16, 2019 16:52 UTC