Quote Originally Posted by jstonley View Post
I know lots of people who came to NZ as a resident without a job offer on the old rules and now they are driving ubers. It's not right and I am glad they have changed the rules. Yet I have lots of friends who had their applications declined and sent packing yet they had good jobs and were hard working but just didn't meet the criteria. We don't need more uber drivers
The problem, from my perspective, is not the rule change -- it's that almost everyone who applied in good faith under "old rules" was defaulted to JSV after the rule change. There is a very small number of exceptions, including mine, where RV was granted, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of a couple of LIAs. This should not have happened -- by law, "old rules" applications should not have been affected. I received a number of PMs from people in this situation -- it seems that quite a few forum members were burned by this.