At the same time the Minister was stating in his immigration reset speech that New Zealand needs highly skilled migrants, 90% of the highly skilled split migrant family travel exception applications were being declined. All the while we had 1500 rooms free in MIQ each night. Why give these people hope to then let them down. Why have an exception no one can use? Don’t even get me started on those who don’t meet rhe 107k threshold for reunification 😡 | Erica Stanford MP
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At the same time the Minister was stating in his immigration reset speech that New Zealand needs highly skilled migrants, 90% of the highly skilled split migrant family travel exception applications were being declined. All the while we had 1500 rooms free in MIQ each night. Why give these people hope to then let them down. Why have an exception no one can use? Don’t even get me started on those who don’t meet rhe 107k threshold for reunification 😡 | Erica Stanford MP
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Restaurants across New Zealand are desperate for chefs, reducing hours or closing down. The Immigration Minister met with Hospitality NZ two months ago and said he would look in to the issue. A month ago the Prime Minister said she would ask Immigration NZ to investigate. Nothing. | Erica Stanford MP
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Restaurants across New Zealand are desperate for chefs, reducing hours or closing down. The Immigration Minister met with Hospitality NZ two months ago and said he would look in to the issue. A month ago the Prime Minister said she would ask Immigration NZ to investigate. Nothing. | Erica Stanford MP
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Immigration Minister to blame for delayed reopening of borders The Government’s failure to scale up Immigration New Zealand and prepare it for the border reopening is keeping families apart for longer and delaying our economic recovery. The Prime Minister has admitted that the only reason that the border reopening is dragging out until the end of the year is Immigration New Zealand’s inability to process visas. That is cold comfort to the many families who have been split for over two years and
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Immigration Minister to blame for delayed reopening of borders The Government’s failure to scale up Immigration New Zealand and prepare it for the border reopening is keeping families apart for longer and delaying our economic recovery. The Prime Minister has admitted that the only reason that the border reopening is dragging out until the end of the year is Immigration New Zealand’s inability to process visas. That is cold comfort to the many families who have been split for over two years and
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The Minister has buried his head in the sand for 8 months over split migrant families. We cannot continue to treat highly skilled, highly valued members of our communities in this way. A trans-Tasman bubble would free up 40% of our MIQ rooms, allowing Kiwis to return home and allowing Immigration NZ to start reuniting migrant families over a manageable period of time. | Erica Stanford MP
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The Minister has buried his head in the sand for 8 months over split migrant families. We cannot continue to treat highly skilled, highly valued members of our communities in this way. A trans-Tasman bubble would free up 40% of our MIQ rooms, allowing Kiwis to return home and allowing Immigration NZ to start reuniting migrant families over a manageable period of time. | Erica Stanford MP
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After a busy week of questioning Minister Faafoi in the House twice, Immigration NZ annual reviews at select committee and trying to make sense out of Minister Hipkins over his bill to interfere in the early childhood sector, this was a nice way to end the week! | Erica Stanford MP
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After a busy week of questioning Minister Faafoi in the House twice, Immigration NZ annual reviews at select committee and trying to make sense out of Minister Hipkins over his bill to interfere in the early childhood sector, this was a nice way to end the week! | Erica Stanford MP
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After nearly 3 years split migrant families get the hope they had been waiting for. The Minister has finally listened and has agreed to prioritise the residence visas for those migrants who have been separated from their partners and children. We will hold him to account to ensure this actually happens but for now time to celebrate! Thank you to Brindley for telling his story - you made a difference my friend! | Erica Stanford MP
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After nearly 3 years split migrant families get the hope they had been waiting for. The Minister has finally listened and has agreed to prioritise the residence visas for those migrants who have been separated from their partners and children. We will hold him to account to ensure this actually happens but for now time to celebrate! Thank you to Brindley for telling his story - you made a difference my friend! | Erica Stanford MP
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Today, both on the steps of Parliament and in the House, we heard more empty rhetoric from the Minister of Immigration. He is refusing to reunite split migrant families, sort out the residence backlog, or to grant work visas to dependent children of migrant parents while they wait for their families residence applications to be processed. These children are unable to work, study, or even volunteer while their families applications sit in unprecedented processing queues. Thank you to all the migr
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Today, both on the steps of Parliament and in the House, we heard more empty rhetoric from the Minister of Immigration. He is refusing to reunite split migrant families, sort out the residence backlog, or to grant work visas to dependent children of migrant parents while they wait for their families residence applications to be processed. These children are unable to work, study, or even volunteer while their families applications sit in unprecedented processing queues. Thank you to all the migr
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Not often I am lost for words. This is an excerpt from tonight’s Annual Review debate on immigration. I asked the Minister what he plans to do to help children of migrants who turn 18 and, due to the very long residency queues, are stuck not being able to study, work or volunteer, effectively leaving them to do absolutely nothing for years until their family’s residence is processed. Migrant children, in order to be granted residence on their parents’ family application, must be a “dependent” wh
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What a privilege to speak at the AUT Young Leaders Forum to talk about our vision and plans for education in NZ. It was amazing to meet and chat with so many aspiring students who have big plans for their futures. | Erica Stanford MP
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Great to be on The Project NZ tonight calling for the Immigration Minister to make some urgent changes. #Watch | Erica Stanford MP
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The last AM Political Panel was on TV this morning. I've been involved for the better part of two years and feel like one of the furniture! It's always been so fun with a truck-load of laughs, and a healthy dose of great debates thrown in. I will truly miss the team and wish them all the very best. | Erica Stanford MP
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Despite all the pre-election rhetoric from Labour, the environment was a big loser in Budget 2018 with no vision, strategy or major funding boost for our rivers and lakes. On Thursday I gave the final debate speech of the session where I pondered some of the reasons for this major Budget disappointment. | Erica Stanford MP
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MIGRANT DOCTORS LEAVING NZ IN ABSURD REVOLVING DOOR SHAMBLES Record long residency delays of more than 2 years and a frozen residency expression of interest pool are forcing our highly skilled migrant doctors to return home or look to Australia or Canada because of the lack of certainty in New Zealand. With a critically understaffed health system we must be doing all we can to keep our migrant doctors in New Zealand. The absurdity of it all is that at the same time Minister Faafoi is inviting mi
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This is the inevitable upshot of not using the 11K empty rooms in MIQ this year to reunite split-Kiwi and split-migrant families. | Erica Stanford MP
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Today marks one year in Government, and I am so proud of what we’ve achieved so far. We will continue to work hard to lift achievement, close the equity gap, and put ambition and success back at the heart of our education system. | Erica Stanford MP
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Work remotely, explore New Zealand, and grow the economy! | Erica Stanford MP
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Good news for onshore migrants! The Immigration Minister has done a u-turn and changed the rules around when migrants in NZ can leave the country and come back in again under the border opening framework. Up until yesterday this was July for most onshore migrants and maybe even October for others. Last night the INZ website was updated to give onshore migrants the ability to leave NZ and come back in using self isolation from stage 3 in April. Great news. Not so great news for split families and
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Thank you so very much to everyone who came along to my volunteer rally this week. You can still sign up on my website. https://www.ericastanfordmp.co.nz/volunteer If you live in the East Coast Bays electorate, there are plenty of ways you can support my campaign from 14 July through to Election Day on 14 October '23. From flyer drops to sign waving or simply offering up your roadside fence for an election sign. I appreciate any help you can give. 💙🇦🇺 #ecblove #ericastanfordmp | Erica Stanfor
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And we’re done. 💙💙 | Erica Stanford MP
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Doctors and Nurses are still leaving due to their inability to get residence here. While Health Minister Andrew Little tries to attract more doctors and nurses, Minister Faafoi is holding the exit door open and waving healthcare workers goodbye because he refuses to make it easy for them to apply for residency. It is quite likely that we are losing more healthcare workers than we are gaining because of a Minister who cannot do his job. National is calling on Minister Faafoi to urgently change th
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I was interviewed this morning by Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk ZB. Have a listen... | Erica Stanford MP
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Minister of Education announces something will be compulsory but refuses to say what it is. Until after the election. Of course. #Watch | Erica Stanford MP
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We want to attract and retain skilled migrants to drive economic growth. We’re introducing a new five-year multiple entry visitor visa for parents of NZ citizens and residents – The Parent Boost Visa. | Erica Stanford MP
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Kids who were a year behind are now racing ahead. Our maths reforms are working and we’re scaling them nationwide. This is how we build a world-leading education system. | Erica Stanford MP
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Do MPs know their times tables? With Term One up and running, I went to find out… 🔢🐙 | Erica Stanford MP
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This morning's political panel on the AM Show. #watch #ericastanfordmp | Erica Stanford MP
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The National Party Northern Conference was held today in Mt Wellington and it was a great day! I spoke about the work we've been doing in Education, listened to other Ministers and MPs speak (including the PM) and then off to dinner with my amazing East Coast Bays crew. | Erica Stanford MP
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Tonight Newshub ran a story about our migrant nurses who have not seen their partners and young children for a year. I am super proud to have spoken out on this issue and so happy that, after significant media pressure, the Minister has finally asked for a report on the problem. We are critically short of healthcare workers in New Zealand. Hundreds of migrant nurses arrived just prior to the borders closing, trapping their loved ones on the other side of the world. After speaking to dozens of th
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