{"id":970,"date":"2021-09-05T04:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T04:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=970"},"modified":"2021-09-05T04:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T04:29:23","slug":"immigration-new-zealand-shuts-its-beijing-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Immigration New Zealand shuts its Beijing office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa processing at what used to be New Zealand&#8217;s largest immigration centre has closed.<\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic, the Beijing office decided half of all temporary visas &#8211; about 10,000 a week.<\/p>\n<p>Withdrawing visa processing from China ends a long programme of overseas office closures, including in India, South Africa and the Philippines in March.<\/p>\n<p>The only Immigration New Zealand offices that now process visas abroad are those in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration New Zealand says most staff have been able to work remotely during lockdown on online visas, including work visas since Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But waiting times for paper applications, such as residence and variations of conditions, have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Staff decided 82,000 visas last summer, compared to 200,000 in the summer before the first Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>-Via <strong>RNZ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa processing at what used to be New Zealand&#8217;s largest immigration centre has closed. Before the pandemic, the Beijing office decided half of all temporary visas &#8211; about 10,000 a week. Withdrawing visa processing from China ends a long programme of overseas office closures, including in India, South Africa and the Philippines in March. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}