{"id":4240,"date":"2023-05-05T05:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2023-05-05T05:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:12:30","slug":"chaudhry-and-others-brand-the-immigration-act-review-for-visa-and-permit-exemptions-for-itaukei-registered-in-the-vkb-as-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"Chaudhry and others brand the Immigration Act review for visa and permit exemptions for iTaukei registered in the VKB as discriminatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serious concerns are being raised by Fiji Labour Party Leader, Mahendra Chaudhry and other concerned citizens who have contacted us and branded the proposed review of the 2003 Immigration Act for visa and permit exemptions for the iTaukei registered in the Vola ni Kawa Bula, as discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration in collaboration with the Office of the Attorney-General has been holding consultations to review the Immigration Act. If the Act is amended, then the iTaukei registered under the Vola ni Kawa Bula will be able to enter Fiji and reside in Fiji without having to obtain a permit or a visa.<\/p>\n<p>The committee highlighted that the amendment in the Act will depend on the feedback from the general public and consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Mahendra Chaudhry asks why is this discriminatory amendment being proposed, and why it does not include other Fijians who were born in Fiji and are living overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE FIJI VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious concerns are being raised by Fiji Labour Party Leader, Mahendra Chaudhry and other concerned citizens who have contacted us and branded the proposed review of the 2003 Immigration Act for visa and permit exemptions for the iTaukei registered in the Vola ni Kawa Bula, as discriminatory. The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}