New Zealand is reviewing its professional immigration requirements

After two years of isolation caused by the Covid-19 virus, many countries around the world are facing a new problem of staff shortages. Apart from the aviation and hotel sectors, other more sensitive areas, such as the health sector, suffer from this labor shortage.

In addition to Canada, France and Australiae, New Zealand has been added to this large list of countries having difficulty in hiring. In fact, the most recent statistics for this country indicated a shortage of 30,000 skilled workers in the construction sector, more than 10,000 nurses, and 1,500 general practitioners in the medical field.

However, in an effort to overcome this shortage of personnel in hospital structures, New Zealand announced the opening of its doors to professional immigration. In fact, to do this, it has allocated 8 million euros to bring in health professionals from abroad.

Labor shortage: New Zealand plans some changes in immigration conditions

In a press release, New Zealand Minister for Immigration Michael Wood today announced a further change in immigration requirements for his country, with the goal of welcoming more than 12,000 workers. strangers.

In addition, to achieve this, New Zealand plans to develop a business plan for its foreigners. The latter will be distributed over vacation periods and weekends to make up for the shortage of manpower. This new plan will come into effect from next year 2023.

Along the same lines, last July the New Zealand government launched a new visa to bring more foreign investors to the country. In fact, with the old visas of foreign investors, the latter preferred only to invest in bonds and shares, but not in the creation of new companies.