Visa Law Powers Granted By Gov’t Of New Zealand To Itself For One Year

COVID-19 is a disease that is caused by the novel coronavirus and it has been bringing a lot of chaos to the entire world as we know it. This is why countries like New Zealand have been making sure that the people in its territory are safe and that they fight the virus as soon as possible and hope to take things back to normal as soon as possible. This is why the country’s government has amended its immigration law on a temporary basis so that it would become more flexible as well as more responsive so the country could take on the challenges brought about by the virus.

The government of NZ has mentioned that a bill will be opened in the Parliament and this bill would support and make way for an efficient management of changes to visas. Iain Lees-Galloway, the Immigration Minister, has said that this bill would be able to provide solutions that are pragmatic and would offer great help to the challenges that the country is facing. Lees-Galloway also said that doing this would be a practical way of doing things so that managing changes to visa rules can be quickly done especially when there are huge amounts of immigrants in the country who cannot leave because of the pandemic.

Limited powers of the bill

According to Immigration New Zealand, the bill that will be introduced would have limited powers which would allow the government to do the following:

• Impose, change or even cancel visa holders of temporary entry’s conditions for classes
• Change or even cancel visa holders of resident class’ conditions for classes
• Extend the dates of expiry of the visas for classes of people
• Grant visas to people and classes of people despite not having an application
• Waive any requirements that are regulatory for certain classes of application
• Waive the requirement that is needed to get a transit visa
• Suspend the capacity to have applications for a visa or to submit expressions of interest needed for applying for a visa by classes of people
• Remove the permission for entry of individuals who may arrive in the country via a private aircraft or a marine vessel (this is done to align these individuals with others who come to the country via commercial flights and may be refused entry)

The need for such

Lees-Galloway has continued to share that the current Immigration Act that New Zealand has comes with limited abilities when it comes to dealing with applicants who come as a class or as a group of people. He also continued that the current settings are proving to be quite difficult for the government to give a response in an appropriate manner especially in terms of changing or extending a huge number of visas.

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