The impact of the Assurance Review on the upcoming reaccreditation process for the Accredited Employer Work Visa Scheme

Published date04 March 2024
Law FirmCavell Leitch
AuthorMs Vienna Tse

In August 2023, the Public Service Commission (the Commission) was appointed to review the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) scheme operation, prompted by concerns that the scheme was potentially misused and exploited by unscrupulous agents or employers.

The Commission's recently published Assurance Review disclosed that several changes made to operational settings under the AEWV scheme failed to achieve their intended objectives. This was due to Immigration New Zealand's (INZ) failure to sufficiently evaluate the risk and impact of speeding up processing times against the increased risk of abuse of the visa system.

The review has also made 10 specific recommendations on reducing the risk of migrant exploitation, developing an integrated compliance and system monitoring model, improving intelligence gathering and resetting the relationship between INZ's senior leaders and frontline staff.

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