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12 July 2024
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AEWV and renewing accreditation
The Accredited Employer Work Visa is designed to ensure New Zealanders are first in line for jobs and makes it easier for employers to hire skilled migrants where genuine skill or labour shortages exist. It also helps combat migrant exploitation by ensuring only employers who are accredited can hire migrant workers. As at 2 July 2024 Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has approved 122,378 AEWV applications, and there are 35,636 accredited employers.
Employers’ first accreditation will be valid for 12 months and they need to apply to renew their accreditation before it expires.
Renew your employer accreditation
Employers affected by the IT issue
We sincerely apologise to the around 500 employers who have been affected by this IT issue and have not received an interim accreditation as they should have.
We want to reassure employers whose accreditation has expired that they can continue to employ migrants who currently work for them on a valid visa while they are waiting for their renewal accreditation to be processed. However, they cannot submit new applications for job checks or accredited employer work visas. Any applications for job checks and accredited employer work visas they have in progress are unable to be approved. Any approved and unused job tokens for these employers have also expired.
In many cases, this issue is affecting renewal applications made in the days immediately before the accreditation expired, and the necessary checks could not be completed to grant interim accreditation before the expiry date.
Work to resolve the issue
As soon as we were made aware of the issue last week, we started work to identify a solution. We acknowledge the inconvenience. The IT solution is complex, and we are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. In the meantime, any affected employers needing assistance where existing migrant workers employed may have visas expiring can contact our Customer Service Centre.
We will continue to keep affected employers updated as we work through the issue.
