Hi all,

To manage immigration issues in covid circumstances, the government introduced bill with eight time limited powers allowing it to:
• Impose, vary or cancel conditions for classes of temporary-entry visa holders
• Vary or cancel conditions for classes of resident-class visa holders
• Extend the expiry dates of visas for classes of people
• Grant visas to individuals and classes of people in the absence of an application
• Waive any regulatory requirements for certain classes of application
• Waive the requirement to obtain a transit visa
• Suspend the ability to make applications for visas or submit expressions of interest in applying for visas by classes of people
• Revoke the entry permission of people who arrive either on private aircraft or marine vessels (to align them with people who arrive on commercial flights, who can already be refused entry)

Cannot predict impact, but this would definitely involve NZ economic and labour market condition in months to come.

Source here- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...fzZh12q_t2zcgk