Green MP Criticizes New Zealand Immigration Rules

“A rule for the rich and a different rule for everyone else, Green MP Ricardo Menendez-March is calling out what he sees as a double standard”

“zero language requirements for people on the so-called golden visa.”

“People investing five to ten million dollars in New Zealand can get an Active Investor Plus visa with no English fluency requirements after the government removed that.”

“I've even received correspondence from English as a second language teachers who prepare people for the IELTS test criticising the requirement for being too onerous and having nothing to do with actually someone being able to settle into the country.”

“we've got countless of bus drivers who have supported us through really difficult times, who are now having their whole livelihoods turned upside down because of an English language requirement”

“The requirements for migrant bus drivers are effectively higher than an international student wanting to go into tertiary education. And that just simply makes no sense.”

“The IELTS test, which is one of the ones that they can sit and it's the most common one amongst our migrant communities, has four categories, you know, listening, reading, writing, speaking.”

“locals would not be expected to have an academic level of English to be able to perform these jobs, which is why these exams just simply do not make sense.”