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Government announces changes to immigration settings, medical professionals will be fast-tracked

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 12 Dec 2022, 5:56pm
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / NZ Herald
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / NZ Herald

Government announces changes to immigration settings, medical professionals will be fast-tracked

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 12 Dec 2022, 5:56pm

In the last post-Cabinet briefing of 2022, the Government announced some new changes to immigration settings.

Specialist doctors, nurses, and midwives will now be granted immediate residency, and these medical professions will be added to the Green List immigration category.

This comes after months of people criticising the Green List for leaving nurses off the pathway to immediate residency in New Zealand. 

Political editor Barry Soper says that Jacinda Ardern has yet to offer a proper statement on why it has taken the Government this long to get nurses on the Green List during the current staff shortage.

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