{"id":401899,"date":"2021-02-24T12:03:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401899"},"modified":"2021-02-24T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:53:26","slug":"new-zealand-to-shut-its-immigration-offices-in-mumbai-pretoria-and-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-zealand-to-shut-its-immigration-offices-in-mumbai-pretoria-and-manila\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to shut its immigration offices in Mumbai, Pretoria and Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration New Zealand (INZ), a part of the nation\u2019s ministry of business, innovation and employment, said on Tuesday it will be closing its offices in Mumbai, Pretoria and Manila by March.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, INZ pointed out that this decision to close offices in Mumbai, South Africa\u2019s Pretoria and the Philippines\u2019 Manila comes in the wake of reduced drop in visitor and student visa applications which were primarily handled in these offices. It oversees the immigration processes and helps migrants as well as asylum seekers to settle in the country.<\/p>\n<p>INZ\u2019s deputy head Catriona Robinson said they have to adapt to New Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 economic recovery as well as focus on the changing work environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration New Zealand (INZ), a part of the nation\u2019s ministry of business, innovation and employment, said on Tuesday it will be closing its offices in Mumbai, Pretoria and Manila by March. In a statement, INZ pointed out that this decision to close offices in Mumbai, South Africa\u2019s Pretoria and the Philippines\u2019 Manila comes in the wake of reduced drop in visitor and student visa applications which were primarily handled in these offices. It oversees the immigration processes and helps migrants as well as asylum seekers to settle in the country. INZ\u2019s deputy head Catriona Robinson said they have to adapt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}