New Zealand recently announced three new residence categories for skilled migrants: ‘Straight to Residence’, ‘Work to Residence’ and ‘Highly Paid’.
Employers in New Zealand will be able to hire skilled workers from overseas for specific high-skilled and hard-to-fill occupations.
Foreign nationals belonging to New Zealand’s Green List occupations will be eligible for skilled migration via the new residence categories.
For the Straight to Residence category, Green List roles include Tier 1 occupations in the following sectors:
- Engineering;
- ICT, electronics and telecommunications;
- Health and social services;
- Primary industries and science; and
- Construction.
The eligible occupations for New Zealand’s Straight to Residence category include:
Engineering roles
- Chemical engineer (ANZSCO 233111);
- Materials engineer (ANZSCO 233112);
- Civil engineer (ANZSCO 233211);
- Geotechnical engineer (ANZSCO 233212);
- Structural engineer (ANZSCO 233214);
- Electrical engineer (ANZSCO 233311);
- Electronics engineer (ANZSCO 233411);
- Environmental engineer (ANZSCO 233915);
- Industrial engineer (ANZSCO 233511);
- Mechanical engineer (ANZSCO 233512);
- Production or Plant engineer (ANZSCO 233513);
- Engineering Professionals nec (ANZSCO 233999);
- Civil engineering technician (ANZSCO 312212);
- Electrical engineering technician (ANZSCO 312312);
- Electronic engineering technician (ANZSCO 312412);
- Telecommunications engineer (ANZSCO 263311);
- Telecommunications network engineer (ANZSCO 263312);
ICT, electronics and telecommunications roles
- Chief information officer (ANZSCO 135111);
- ICT project manager (ANZSCO 135112);
- ICT managers nec (ANZSCO 135199);
- Software engineer (ANZSCO 261313);
- ICT security specialist (ANZSCO 262112);
- Multimedia specialist (ANZSCO 261211);
Health and social services roles
- General practitioner (ANZSCO 253111);
- Anaesthetist (ANZSCO 253211);
- Psychiatrist (ANZSCO 253411);
- Specialist physicians nec (ANZSCO 253399);
- Surgeon (general) (ANZSCO 253511);
- Cardiothoracic surgeon (ANZSCO 253512);
- Neurosurgeon (ANZSCO 253513);
- Orthopaedic surgeon (ANZSCO 253514);
- Vascular surgeon (ANZSCO 253521);
- Urologist (ANZSCO 253518);
- Otorhinolaryngologist (ANZSCO 253515);
- Dermatologist (ANZSCO 253911);
- Obstetrician and gynaecologist (ANZSCO 253913);
- Ophthalmologist (ANZSCO 253914);
- Diagnostic and interventional radiologist (ANZSCO 253917);
- Radiation oncologist (ANZSCO 253918);
- Resident medical officer (ANZSCO 253112);
- Medical laboratory scientist (ANZSCO 234611);
- Clinical psychologist (ANZSCO 272311);
- Educational psychologist (ANZSCO 272312);
- Organisational psychologist (ANZSCO 272313);
- Psychotherapist (ANZSCO 272314);
- Psychologists nec (ANZSCO 272399);
- Physicist (medical) (ANZSCO 234914);
- Orthoptist (ANZSCO 251412);
- Veterinarian (ANZSCO 234711);
Primary industries and science roles
- Other spatial scientist (ANZSCO 232214);
- Environmental research scientist (ANZSCO 234313);
- Food technologist (ANZSCO 234212);
Construction
- Construction project manager (ANZSCO 133111);
- Project builder (including building project manager and site foreman) (ANZSCO 133112);
- Quantity surveyor (ANZSCO 233213);
- Surveyor (ANZSCO 232212);
