Andrew Dickens: Does the Govt know their new visa policy hurdles are too high?

Best of Business · Jul 21, 2022 · 6m

I want to start off with immigration because this is the issue of the day, is it not. This is the issue of the age.

We have discovered after the pandemic that we are very dependent on those people who live overseas and come to live here in New Zealand.

The Government say they want to attract a higher quality immigrant. So to that measure, yesterday Stuart Nash announced that the Government is making some significant changes around migrant investor visas, creating a whole new category called Active Investor Plus, which is going to replace the current investor one and two categories.

The…