14th November 2021
Changes to the 189 New Zealand income requirements:
New legislation includes an exemption for New Zealand citizens who are unable to meet the income threshold requirements for the 2020-21 income year, due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants can only use this COVID-19 concession for one of the required income years, claiming an income exemption for either the 2019-20 income year or the 2020-21 income year, but not both years.
This amendment commenced on 14 November 2021 but is retrospectively applied from 1 July 2021.