NZ Immigration - Sponsor Your Parents in New Zealand

Living and working in New Zealand permit a claimant to make his or her career but this must not be done at the cost of living without your parents. Here are some of the aspects linked with Family Sponsorship, Parent Category of New Zealand Immigration.

1) Centre of Gravity Test; So as to assure this test, it is essential that the parents have an equal or greater number of children who are living in New Zealand as compared to any other country.
2) The main applicant (sponsor) must be a resident of New Zealand for a least of 3 years on the date of filing the application. It is necessary that the applicant has lived in NZ for a minimum of 184 days for every three years previous to filing an application for sponsoring the parent.
3) Financial facets play a critical role when it comes to sponsoring your parents in the land of Kiwis. You must have a domestic income of a minimum of $29,897.92
4) The sponsor is required to be an Adult (17 years of age or over), physically present in NZ and must be a New Zealand or Australian citizen.
5) Meet the least income requirements.
6) You can not file the request for sponsorship at the same time as you are out of the country. It is an obligation that you must have your physical presence in the NZ at the time you put the request in. Also, you will be necessary to sign a declaration that would state that you as a sponsor would pay back all the benefits received by them in the first two years from the NZ government.

Other aspects:
After the Clearance of your application, you would be granted with a letter of "approval in principle," followed by instructions on the next steps concerned in the Immigration process.

Medical Assessments:
The most important aspect of sponsoring your parent is that they should be logically healthy and clear the "satisfactory standard of health" set out by the NZ government.

Parents have to undergo the Medical examinations, acquire them certified from Medical evaluator and demonstrate the documentation to the Case Officer.

The Medical Assessor may give a brief judgment or can even decline to give any opinion on your health. Also INZ has each right to send your medical information to one more Medical Assessor for a second judgment.

VisaView - Visaview is a new system set up to assist employers when deciding whether to employ an immigrant or not. On the system they can now check whether the applicant is eligible to work in New Zealand and under what conditions. As the law on employing illegal workers has been tightened for employers, this new system will allow them to employ only workers who are eligible to work in New Zealand.

An exciting new visa which is going to help a lot of potential immigrants is the new Interim visa. We often find that those here on work permit and have applied for permanent residence find themselves between a rock and a hard place when their work visa expires before their permanent residence is approved. Previously they would have had to leave the country until such time as their PR was approved. Now they can apply for an Interim visa which will allow them to remain in New Zealand until their pending application has been finalised.

Read more about NZ immigration also read about Immigration Service and Skilled migrant Category .