For New Zealand Employers and Businesses
Overview
This section is for New Zealand businesses/employers who have staff on work visas, or contemplating to recruit foreign workers.
Streamline with us
As an employer, it's your obligation to ensure that your staff has valid visas to be able to work for you. If there is a compliance issue, such as your staff continuing to work for your when his/her visa has expired, then you might inadvertently be committing an offence, which not only means that you could be liable for a hefty fine, but also could impact your ability to employ staff on work visas in the future.
We can proactively manage your staff's visa status and ensure that the risks associated with immigration matters are minimised. A quick overview of our corporate immigration services is covered in this PDF document.
Application types
In addition to managing your staff's visas, we can also help with the following types of immigration applications which may be beneficial for your business operation:
Approval in Principle
Typically there is downtime associated with conducting a labour market search when applying for a work visa, just to comply with Immigration New Zealand requirements. If an Approval in Principle is in place, when used correctly, the downtime could be reduced significantly. Read more about this category here.
Accredited employer
Being an accredited employer means you can offer a more attractive employment package to key talents whom you wish to retain in the long run, by being able to effectively guarantee pathway to residence. Read more about this category here.
Specific purpose
In certain instances, "Specific Purpose Work Visa"s need to be granted to allow your staff to work for you. Examples are as below:
- A senior or specialist businessperson on short-term secondment
- A sports referee
- A judge of a show, display or exhibition
- A dance or music examiner
- An installer or servicer of specialised equipment or machinery
- An entertainer, performing artist, film or video crew or support personnel
Are you a forward thinking employer wanting to take advantage of streamlining migrant recruitment? Read more about it here and here.