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Extended to AEWV Skill Level 3 Roles: What Employers and Migrants Need to Know
IMMIGRATION LAW INSIGHTS English Language Requirements From 1 June 2026, the minimum English language requirement that has applied to Accredited Employer Work Visa applicants in...
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Is the MAGA-fication of New Zealand’s Immigration System a Real Risk?
Recently, Prime Minister Chris Luxon and Immigration Minister Erica Stanford took questions from the media about the direction of New Zealand’s immigration policy. The Prime...
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How New Zealand Built an Immigration System That Quietly Exploits People
If you want to see where an immigration system can end up when cruelty becomes normal, you don’t have to look very far right now....
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August 2026 Residence Changes: Could You Qualify for New Zealand Residence Sooner Than You Think?
Major changes to New Zealand’s Skilled Migrant Residence pathway are coming — and many migrants may now have opportunities they did not previously have. For...
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Submission on the Immigration (Enhanced Risk Management) Amendment Bill – Section 26
Introduction and Scope Thank you for the opportunity to make this submission. Due to limitations of time, I have chosen to focus solely on one...
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Getting the Visa Is Just the Beginning
How employment, business, family and property issues often become part of the immigration journey. If you’ve worked with our team before, you probably know us...
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Can the Government Really Ensure Employers Hire New Zealanders First?
Examining the contradiction between political rhetoric, regulatory enforcement, and New Zealand’s growing structural reliance on temporary migrant labour. In late 2025, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford...
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Misleading the Public, Unchallenged: Immigration Powers and a Failure of Scrutiny
How ministerial claims about immigration law reform went unchallenged – and what that reveals about the failure of Radio New Zealand to hold power to...
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Is Migrant Worker Exploitation Really What We Think It Is?
We hear a lot about migrant worker exploitation in New Zealand. Governments promise crackdowns. Ministers announce tougher penalties. Employers are named and shamed. The story...
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The Colour of Risk: New Zealand’s Immigration System and the Ethnic Logic It Won’t Name
Nationality is how New Zealand’s immigration system talks about ethnicity. The data tells a different story. A familiar pattern plays out on migrant Facebook groups...
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When Protection Becomes Conditional: Refugee Law and New Zealand’s Immigration Amendments
The Immigration Minister has this month introduced a series of amendments to New Zealand’s immigration framework. Some are technical. Others are presented as necessary to...
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The Skilled Migrant Changes and New Zealand’s “Permanent Temporary” Workforce
The government says its Skilled Migrant reforms will fix the system. But the deeper problem with New Zealand’s immigration model remains untouched. New changes to...
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Erica Stanford wants to flush out overstayers. Political thinkers have long warned about this playbook
Opinion: In recent public statements, immigration minister Erica Stanford has signalled that the government intends to introduce an amendment to the Immigration Act that would...
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The moral basis for denying birthright citizenship
Is there a moral basis for denying children birthright citizenship[? Introduction On 1st January 2006 an amendment to New Zealand’s citizenship laws removed the rights...
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WELLINGTON Immigration Policy and Law Change for children born in New Zealand without lawful Immigration Status I am writing to raise and highlight a matter...
Read MoreExploitation Submissions
Introduction I am a Barrister and Solicitor, based in Auckland, a principal of my own Law Firm, McClymont & Associates. I began working in the...
Read MoreThese are written submissions used to accompany Alastair McClymont’s submission to the New Zealand Parliamentary Select Committee hearing on Migrant Worker Exploitation in early 2022, making the argument that the root cause of Migrant Worker Exploitation are new Zealand’s own Immigration policies.
This is a paper I prepared as part of my Contemporary Political Philosophy research at the University of Canterbury examining any possible basis for denying children born in New Zealand citizenship. I concluded that the law lacked any ethical or empirical justification.
Opinion: In recent public statements, immigration minister Erica Stanford has signalled that the government intends to introduce an amendment to the Immigration Act that would give immigration officers the power to demand identification from people they suspect may be breaching visa conditions