[veronica]

copied from XTRAMSN

Migration Up In October
19/11/2004 02:22 PM
NewstalkZB

Net migration was up slightly in October.

The country saw a seasonally adjusted net gain of 980 people, a rise of 300 on the previous month.

For the year to the end of November there was a net gain in permanent migration of just under 17,000.

That is down more than 50 percent on the previous year.

[Danpoll]

Is it not the case that 45000 are required in each fiscal year. I believe that that year is feb to feb and that would suggest that they are seriousley short of applications to reach the target.



dan

[veronica]

I don't know..........I'm just the messenger. :?

[Lil]

The figures quoted are net gain of 17,000 - so that would be all the immigrants going in less all the folks that have left NZ. The 45,000 quota in just the number they want to come in, they are not intending to increase the population by that much per year.

[Jamie Smith]

Hi all

NZIS year is July/June.

They are well short on bodies and employers are hurting, of course.

The tinkering with points will see a few more people getting into the pool but in itself is not enough to overcome a) agents no longer really promoting NZ b) market loss of interest c) inherent uncertainty in the design of the process and c) time.....

Good luck everyone



Is it not the case that 45000 are required in each fiscal year. I believe that that year is feb to feb and that would suggest that they are seriousley short of applications to reach the target.



dan

[MB]

Jamie, by "the few" extras do you include the folks who have been selected from the pool since the pass mark drops? I assume so. And if so, how do you rate these' folks real chances of getting either PR or 2-yr permit?
By the by, you may have seen on another thread my suggestion that talk about quotas and processing times is possibly not all that relevant once an EOI has been selected, because it'll get dealt with fairly in time and in whatever financial year that applicant's success/failure will figure in. Not the same as saying success is certain by any means, but I'm trying to get my head round the certain fact that NZIS know how many EOIs they'll get each time. Unless they're trying exclusively to get 100-pointers who are bumped up to that point by job offers alone (and not, say, by years of experience or postgrad degrees), I think the 100-120 pointers are in with a chance.

Matt.