{"id":63162,"date":"2024-04-08T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/08\/new-zealand-tightens-visa-rules-after-migration-hits-unsustainable-levels"},"modified":"2024-04-08T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:58:43","slug":"new-zealand-tightens-visa-rules-after-migration-hits-unsustainable-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63162","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand tightens visa rules after migration hits \u2018unsustainable\u2019 levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Net migration to New Zealand hit a near record high in 2023 after a new temporary work visa was introduced after the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will tighten its visa rules for some migrants as the coalition government moves to overhaul the immigration system it says has led to \u201cunsustainable\u201d levels of migration.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, annual net migration to New Zealand hit a near record high of more than 173,000 non-New Zealand citizens in the year to December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.govt.nz\/news\/net-migration-remains-near-record-level\/\">Stats NZ reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/08\/new-zealand-tightens-visa-rules-after-migration-hits-unsustainable-levels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net migration to New Zealand hit a near record high in 2023 after a new temporary work visa was introduced after the pandemicNew Zealand will tighten its visa rules for some migrants as the coalition government moves to overhaul the immigration system &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3281,"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":[41,491,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-migration","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\/63162","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\/3281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63163,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63162\/revisions\/63163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}