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move2nz News: move2nz wins 'Best Community Website' 2nd year running

We are delighted to announce that move2nz.com has been voted New Zealand’s favourite online community for the second year running.

Last night presentations were made for New Zealand’s best websites at the prestigious People’s Choice NetGuide Web Awards...

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Press Article: Migrants 'lack help' to cope with losing jobs

Migrant workers in trouble have no one to turn to for help and groups wanting to help find themselves unable to, says a migrant aid group.

"Foreign workers on temporary permits simply fall between the cracks in services provided," said Mike Bell, spokesman for the Skilled Migrant Information Centre...

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Press Article: Immigrants deceived, says support group

A migrant support group has accused the Government of "taking migrants' money, using their skills and then telling them to bugger off".

Mike Bell, a spokesman for the Move 2 New Zealand Trust, representing mainly migrants from Britain, Europe and South Africa, says migrants not only bring skills...

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Press Article: Danger for Skilled Migrants on Temp Permits

Migrants are big business for the New Zealand economy and collectively bring over $8 billion to this country every year – a figure equal to our income from international tourism.

Until the end of 2008 most skilled workers trod a well-worn path which involved coming to NZ, looking for work...

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move2nz Report: A call to action on goverment's handling of work permits

An emerging situation affecting potentially tens of thousands of law-abiding and productive skilled workers in the country on temporary work permits has been identified which I believe may have a significant negative impact on this country’s ability to recover from the current economic recession...

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Press Article: Agents under the spotlight

Immigration agents are often unnecessary, says the founder of a voluntary advisory group.

Mike Bell, of the Christchurch-based Skilled Migrant Information and Resource Centre, made the comments as new regulations governing immigration consultants came into force yesterday.

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Media Release: Help for migrants caught out by unlicensed advisers

Immigration New Zealand is offering a helping hand to prospective migrants who may have been caught out by New Zealand based agents who failed to be licensed by Monday May 4 as required by law...

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Press Article: Heroes in our midst

The Weekend Press newspaper (www.press.co.nz) ran a story on December 14th in their Mainlander suppliment on “The Heroes in our midst”, unexpectedly featuring Mike and Tammy Bell: founders of move2nz...

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December Workshop - The New Zealand Health System

Held at the Christchurch Skilled Migrant Resource and Information Centre (SMIRC) in association with Settlemment Support New Zealand this was an brilliant opportunity for newcomers to find out about ACC and the NZ medical system...

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Press Release: Overseas view benefits Greens

The final stage of the election was completed on Saturday with the counting of the special votes from Kiwis overseas. The resulting extra seat for the greens should be no surprise for anyone who has lived overseas in a big city...

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Press Release: Shocking Recruitment Tactics

The call has gone out from New Zealand for nurses, tempting back those trained in New Zealand who have left the profession (Scoop: 29/8/08) and attracting suitably qualified and experienced nurses from around the world...

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Press Release: PM may cut Work Permits for foreigners

Prime Minister Helen Clark’s comments today on the possibility of reducing the number of work permits available to skilled foreigners already in employment here drew a sharp reaction from experts in this area...

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Air New Zealand and move2nz.com in partnership to bring talent to Aotearoa

Leading New Zealand migration community, move2nz.com and Air New Zealand are working together to ensure safe and comfortable arrival to NZ.

“With over 9,000 move2nz.com families due to arrive in New Zealand over the next 12 months partnering with an airline …

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Petition Update

Thanks to everyone who signed our online petition so far! We had well over a thousand people sign from 100 countries with many already in the process of trying to settle in New Zealand. The vast majority of respondents (well over 90%) have agreed...

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Introducing Immigration Law Advocates!

As you will know, move2nz has become the best place to get information on New Zealand migration, settlement and integration. The one area we cannot help with is technical Immigration information: only a professional should give...

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A new record!

There has been so much to add to the site recently that I popped out an update last Tuesday to ensure the articles were read. Did you read it? Well a lot of people did! The response was amazing! Previously the most people we had ever...

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move2nz announces a new Trusted Partner: NZ New Cars

We are extremely pleased to be able to introduce PJ from NZ New Cars. Almost all of our members need to buy or rent a car soon after arrival and this is something we get asked about a lot! Now we have an expert onboard to help you...

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move2nz reaches 27,000 members!

This month we have not only reached 27,000 members on move2nz, but we can see you have been reading well over 1.1 million pages on move2nz this year! As people spend nearly 10 minutes on the site every time they visit...

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Hidden Government Failure drains NZ Economy

In the light of government’s confirmation that migrants bring over $8.1 billion into our economy every year no one can ignore the financial benefit they bring (ref: NZ Herald, June 15th).

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move2nz's achievement

Many people think that move2nz is just this website, not knowing that this is just the Internet face of an extremely active organisation. The majority of the work we actually do is face to face, providing completely free direct assistance to...

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Request for funding declined

For the past three years move2nz has been working to help newcomers, supporting them through the migration to ensure they have the best chance of settling and integrating happily. We have had brilliant results because we have an excellent understanding...

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JOBX and move2NZ work together in bringing talent to New Zealand

Leading New Zealand Immigration community, move2nz.com, has just added a JOBX Job Search Box on their website giving their visitors access to every job advertisement on JOBX.CO.NZ. With JOBX’s range of online tools to allow remote candidate selection,...

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move2nz.com wins NetGuide Award for Best Community Website!

On May 7th Tammy and I headed up to Auckland to attend the NetGuide Awards - the longest running and most prestigious web awards in New Zealand. The evening was held in the Auckland Convention Centre right by the Sky Tower...

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move2nz.com Finalist in this years People's Choice NetGuide Awards

We learned as soon as we got back from our UK Seminars that move2nz.com is a finalist in this year's People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards. This means we have been voted as one of the top sites in New Zealand!

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