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Speaker 1: Another immigration moved from the government. Parents of residents or

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Speaker 1: citizens will be able to apply for a multi five

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Speaker 1: year visa. Criteria good finances, good health, and at least

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Speaker 1: the year's worth of private medical insurance. Cabucati Armstrong's, the

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Speaker 1: owner of into Insed Immigration is Beck with the SCADI

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Speaker 1: Morning Morning, Mike. Is this a big deal? How many

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Speaker 1: people are involved in this? Roughly? Do we know?

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Speaker 2: This is a big deal for people who who want

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Speaker 2: their parents to be here for sure? How many? It's

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Speaker 2: very difficult to know. There are about ten thousand expressions

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Speaker 2: of interest currently in a pool for residents for their parents,

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Speaker 2: but that this would this basically would reach a wider

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Speaker 2: number than that, because the thresholds are lower.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So would this just be more people coming in

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Speaker 1: for a longer period of time or the same number

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Speaker 1: of people coming in for a longer period of time.

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Speaker 2: I think it will be the same number or actually fewer.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at basically we have currently

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Speaker 2: various offerings, right, We've got general visitor visas, we have

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Speaker 2: specific pairs grandparent visas which are available at the moment,

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Speaker 2: but they don't you can't stay for as long. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's the same sort of pool of people. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then but this particular visa will actually be fewer than

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Speaker 2: those are currently eligible for, say the three year visa,

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Speaker 2: because it's got some tougher requirements.

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Speaker 1: Those large requirements. The finances the health do we know

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Speaker 1: what they are? Or they announced yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were an announced. So basically the finances are

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Speaker 2: there's three ways you can meet them, and they're all

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Speaker 2: you only have to meet one of them. So either

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Speaker 2: your sponsor here in New Zealand is earning enough, or

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Speaker 2: you yourself earning enough, or you have a bit of

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Speaker 2: a nest egg. We're talking. You know, they're not minimal thresholds.

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Speaker 2: So if you're wanting to sponsor one parent, you've got

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Speaker 2: to be earning one. Just the median wage it's thirty

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Speaker 2: three dollars sixty six. It's not bad, it's obtainable. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the health thing, is there a major or not? Well?

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the concern when you're making this kind

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Speaker 2: of visa is how to protect the system, how to

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Speaker 2: help people reunite, but also how to protect the system.

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Speaker 2: We've got a stretched health system, so trying to get

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Speaker 2: that balance right is difficult. But I think it's you know,

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Speaker 2: with the insurance that's going to take the edge off

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of this. It's going to be the

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Speaker 2: first well no, sorry, the second visa that we have

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Speaker 2: that requires insurance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the word the future. As far as I

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Speaker 1: can work out. Having said that, this seems to me

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Speaker 1: to be an ultruistic move. In other words, it's not

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Speaker 1: about skills or labor or anything like that. It's just

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Speaker 1: a sort of it's the nice thing to do, Is

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Speaker 1: it fear or not?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, I think the government's view is more that

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Speaker 2: it is that, but it's also hey, look, if we

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Speaker 2: want to attract skilled migrants, you know there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of them out there that want to be able to

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Speaker 2: have their parents come for extended visits. And you know,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand's not just a skip across to do it,

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Speaker 2: is it? For some people it's a twenty four hour

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Speaker 2: journey or more so, you know, being able to have

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Speaker 2: your parents here for that period is going to be

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Speaker 2: significant for some people.

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Speaker 1: All right, Kadie Muster, to have you on the program

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Speaker 1: is almost Kadie Armstrong, who's the owner and principal consultant

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