{"id":33343,"date":"2021-06-22T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/22\/on-the-edge-are-new-zealands-tough-immigration-rules-harming-the-economy"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:34:49","slug":"on-the-edge-are-new-zealands-tough-immigration-rules-harming-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33343","title":{"rendered":"\u2018On the edge\u2019: Are New Zealand\u2019s tough immigration rules harming the economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say failing to allow family members to join skilled workers will undermine post-pandemic recovery<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, Craig Hurn, 53, temporarily left his wife and daughter in Cape Town to scope out the job market in New Zealand. After beating six other candidates for one job, he secured an essential skills visa and began preparing to move his family over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw Craig\u2019s CV and we thought, \u2018Oh my God, he can walk into the job,\u2019\u201d says his employer, who struggled to find any workers with the highly specialised qualifications to fill the position.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/22\/on-the-edge-are-new-zealands-tough-immigration-rules-harming-the-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say failing to allow family members to join skilled workers will undermine post-pandemic recoveryIn February 2020, Craig Hurn, 53, temporarily left his wife and daughter in Cape Town to scope out the job market in New Zealand. After beating six&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33343\/revisions\/33344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}