UK-born Clint Williams has worked for Formatt Bespoke Joinery Co, where he’s workshop manager, for almost eight years. Spackman says it’s also unfair on Williams’ UK-born partner, Pinewood Lodge manager Abi Barber, whose visa is tied to his. Rather than being a burden on the health system, they’d made "a direct, meaningful and positive contribution to it". However, he’d needed "significant neurosurgical intervention from the public health system for a brain tumour, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, in 2018". "Therefore, he was confirmed to not have an acceptable standard of health to be granted a temporary work visa."

Source: Otago Daily Times December 02, 2020 21:22 UTC