Are you A New Zealand business needing to recruit skilled employees not available locally? Here's all you need to know.
If you're an investor looking to invest and live in New Zealand, or a New Zealand business needing to recruit skilled employees not available locally, Gibson Sheat provides a range of business-related immigration services for New Zealand migrants.
Whether you're:
An investor focused on investing and living in New Zealand,
With extensive business and professional relationships including banks, financial institutions, tax advisors, accountants, valuers, and real estate agents, we are well-placed to assist you with your business immigration issues.
Our immigration team looks forward to working closely with you, to help you achieve your immigration goals.
Investors
A new Active Investor Plus visa category comes in to force on 19 September 2022 replacing the Investor 1 and 2 visa categories.
Set out below is a snapshot of the proposed new category designed in the Governments view to bring growth opportunities to New Zealand businesses.
A further update with more specific information will be posted once the eligibility criteria is confirmed, the key points that have been released thus far, are:
Incentivising direct investment in New Zealand firms through a weighting system.
A minimum investment threshold of $15 million NZ or weighted equivalent*
A minimum stay of 117 days in New Zealand over a four -year investment period
An English language requirement of an IELTS score of at least 5.0.
* A direct investment will receive a 3x weighting per dollar invested. This means that an applicant who wants to make an acceptable direct investment will be eligible with $5 million NZD.
Investment period - NZD$15 million investment over four years.
Minimum of 117 days to be spent in New Zealand over the four-year investment period.
