Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has confirmed it will reduce the number of high risk offshore processing offices from 17 to five over the next two years to bring more jobs home.
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has announced that more jobs will be created in New Zealand as a result of a decision to bring home much of the high-risk, high-value processing of visas currently done overseas.
The indicative closure dates for the six offshore offices that will shut altogether are as follows:-
Hong Kong – March 2018
Ho Chi Minh – May 2018
Moscow – June 2018
Jakarta – July 2018
Shanghai – October 2018
New Delhi – March 2019
The indicative dates for processing to cease at the five other offshore offices are as follows:-
Dubai – March 2018
Pretoria – April 2018
Bangkok – September 2018
Washington DC – November 2018
London – February 2019
Manila – June 2019
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