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We provide expert support to ensure that your job advertisements meet immigration standards, verify that local talent is unavailable, and guide you through the compliance checks required to hire international workers. With our assistance, your business can meet all the necessary regulations, reducing delays and ensuring a smooth hiring process.
This service ensures your business meets Immigration New Zealand’s Job Check and Labour Market Testing requirements, allowing you to hire international workers seamlessly. NZIL helps you verify local talent availability, meet advertising standards, and navigate the application process. With our expertise, you can reduce the risk of visa delays and ensure full compliance with immigration regulations, making it easier to secure skilled overseas talent for your business needs.
Step 1:
Ensure your business is accredited with Immigration New Zealand before applying for a Job Check.
Step 2:
Advertise the position in accordance with immigration guidelines, ensuring it meets salary, qualification, and experience requirements.
Step 3:
Consult with Work and Income to confirm there are no suitable New Zealand candidates for the position.
Step 4:
Submit the Job Check application, providing all necessary documentation to demonstrate compliance with advertising and labour market testing standards.
Step 5:
Immigration New Zealand reviews your application and provides a decision on whether you can hire an overseas worker.
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There are 75 different types of work visas, with 11 categories that may be relevant to a prospective employer. The category an employer should use depends upon the circumstances necessitating the hire, or the circumstances of the employee or prospective employee. And each category has its own differing criteria and documentation requirements. It can be a minefield for people to negotiate the complexities of these requirements unaided.
Professional fees will depend upon complexity. The government application fee is $610.
This can be as long as 6 to 8 weeks but again important to obtain advice to ensure you understand the criteria particularly in regard labour market testing.
Employers must become accredited and have a job check approved, before an accredited employer work visa application can be prepared for the staff member. The only alternative pathway for employers to obtain work visas is to use the Specific Purpose work visa category, but these are criteria are narrowly prescribed and this is not an option available for staff members seeking to come to New Zealand for full-time ongoing work.
