{"id":40072,"date":"2021-12-24T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/locked-out-new-zealanders-outraged-as-visa-scheme-for-rich-foreigners-resumes"},"modified":"2021-12-24T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:02:58","slug":"locked-out-new-zealanders-outraged-as-visa-scheme-for-rich-foreigners-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40072","title":{"rendered":"Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say the wealthy will be able to buy their way in while citizens lose out on quarantine spots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A controversial New Zealand scheme that offers visas to wealthy foreign investors has resumed operating after a year\u2019s hiatus due to the pandemic, prompting concern from overseas New Zealanders who fear it will place additional strain on the country\u2019s overburdened managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) system.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Newell, a spokesperson for the advocacy group Grounded Kiwis, said the scheme\u2019s resumption would prompt \u201cdisbelief\u201d among New Zealanders overseas, who may lose out on MIQ spots to the investors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/locked-out-new-zealanders-outraged-as-visa-scheme-for-rich-foreigners-resumes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say the wealthy will be able to buy their way in while citizens lose out on quarantine spotsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA controversial New Zealand scheme that offers visas to wealthy foreign investors has resume&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2257,"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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/40072","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\/2257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40072\/revisions\/40073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}