December, already the last month of the year!! Yep, it has gone quickly and a lot happened in the Immigration industry in this event full year (click here).
Herewith I thank you all for support and trust in me to assist you in your immigration matters. A BIG "Thank You."
Below the highlights for the December month with some links to the related news articles;
- The new Immigration Act 2009 now in force (29/11/2010). Click here for the full Act.
- Immigration Act, employers and immigration status
- Ethnic hubs breeding ground for entrepreneurs
- Leniency towards Pacific Island overstayers ( who will be next in line ...... )
- Christmas Island tragedy
- NZ apples in Oz
- PField loses appeal
- China's economic bubble threat to NZ economy
- Government deficit and economy crawling to a recovery?
- Air Asia's cheap tickets
- Wiki leaks
- Pike River Mine remembrance service
- More earth quakes, even undersea
- Teachers reach agreement
- Ireland bailed out by EU
- World Cup bid winners and losers
- Constitutional review (is that a good thing when a Governments is not performing?)
- Retirement age change? (can we learn from Europe where it went down, now it is up again)
- New car registrations up
- Property values stabilising
- Oil prices up resulting in well over $2 per liter petrol prices (happy motoring, happy holidays...)
- Pansy Wong resigns while Goff's housing perks are made public
Happy reading ... and hopefully see you in the next year! Have a safe and healthy one ...