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Sonny Lam: Queen City Law Immigration Expert on the potential changes to the immigration settings in the India FTA · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Still a bit of confusion this morning about what exactly
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  Speaker 1: is and isn't happening re immigration in the India. FTA
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  Speaker 1: Modi is expected to visit here this month. Winston's been
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  Speaker 1: agitating about it.
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  Speaker 2: The National Party has just changed its course, no doubt
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  Speaker 2: due to poor poling. Immigration policy settings are being made
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  Speaker 2: more restrictive in a way that which targets India and
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  Speaker 2: India alone.
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  Speaker 1: Now Erica Stanford's office has confirmed there are changes out
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  Speaker 1: for consultation at the moment. Sunny Lamb, immigration expert at
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  Speaker 1: Queen's City Law former immigration officer, joins us this morning say.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, are yes good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? So what changes are they actually looking at?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know.
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  Speaker 3: At this stage not exactly sure, nothing is really reviewed
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  Speaker 3: right now, but it does seem like there are going
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  Speaker 3: to be specific restrictions targeted under the FDA with India.
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  Speaker 1: And is that to do with bringing your husband, your wife,
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  Speaker 1: your kids along with you?
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  Speaker 3: Well yes, it seems like st On Winston anyway, it
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  Speaker 3: will be restricting the ability to apply for a furtivisa
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  Speaker 3: once you're in New Zealand, and there will be restrictions
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  Speaker 3: on bringing family and also some sort of means testing,
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  Speaker 3: which is a little bit different, but I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 3: completely new.
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  Speaker 1: How common is it then just place restrictions or to
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  Speaker 1: tag one particular country.
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  Speaker 3: The question is a matter of extent. Really, we do
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  Speaker 3: have country specific policy, say for example, with Chinese special
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  Speaker 3: policy visas or tai chefs or Japanese tour guides. These
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  Speaker 3: currently do exist and are not well known, but the
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  Speaker 3: proposed restrictions will be more extreme than previous examples. Certainly
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  Speaker 3: having a restriction on a plank for a further visa
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  Speaker 3: once you own New Zealand that's somewhat new, not completely new,
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  Speaker 3: but will be similar to imposing automatic limited visa. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: I think it depends on what the restricts are not
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  Speaker 3: going to be.
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  Speaker 1: And we will find out in due course, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: although the government apparently would like us to not know
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  Speaker 1: before Mighty arrived. Sunny Lamb immigration expert Queen Said law
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  Speaker 1: former immigration Offhasy. For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge,
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