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Occupations & Criteria for the Green List
The Tier 1 & 2 Occupations are NZ Immigration’s answer to overcoming labour shortages in crucial industries. It streamlines residency applications for key roles
Occupations With a Direct Pathway to Residence
Eligible migrants that have roles on the New Zealand Green List can come to New Zealand on a work visa from 4 July 2022. Those eligible can also apply for this residence pathway from September 2022.
Green List occupations with a direct pathway to residence are:
Business Professionals
- External Auditor (Minimum salary requirement $80,200.64 per annum)
- Internal Auditor (Minimum salary requirement $80,200.64 per annum)
Construction Roles
- Construction Project Manager
- Project Builder
- Quantity Surveyor
- Surveyor
Engineering Roles
- Chemical Engineer
- Civil Engineering Technician
- Civil Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Electronics Engineer
- Electrical Engineering Technician
- Electronic Engineering Technician
- Environmental Engineer
- Geotechnical Engineer
- Industrial Engineer
- Materials Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Production or Plant Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Engineering Professionals (Not Elsewhere Classified)
- Telecommunications Engineers
- Telecommunications Network Engineers
Health & Social Roles
- Addiction Practitioner
- Ambulance Paramedic
- Anaesthetic Technician
- Anaesthetist
- Audiologist
- Audiometrist
- Careers Counsellor
- Chiropractor
- Clinical Dental Technician
- Clinical Psychologists & Psychologists (includes Educational, Organisational and not elsewhere classified)
- Counsellors
- Dental Prosthetist
- Dental Specialist
- Dental Technician
- Dental Therapist
- Dentist (Dental Practitioner or Dental Surgeon)
- Dietician Endodontist
- Enrolled Nurse
- Family and Marriage Counsellor
- General Practitioner
- Genetic Counsellor
- Hospital Pharmacist
- Imaging Technologist
- Industrial Pharmacist
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologist
- Medical Imaging Technologist
- Medical Laboratory Pre-Analytical Technician
- Medical Laboratory Scientist
- Medical Laboratory Technician
- Medical Radiation Therapist
- Midwife
- Nuclear Medicine Technologist
- Nurse Practitioners
- Occupational Therapist
- Operating Theatre Technician (Sterile Processing Technician)
- OpticianOptometrist
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
- Oral Health Therapist
- Oral medicine specialist
- Oral Pathologist
- Oral surgery specialist
- OrthodontistOrthoptist
- Orthotic and Prosthetic Technician
- Orthotist/Prosthetist
- Osteopath
- Other Medical Practitioners (Including Dermatologist, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Ophthalmologist, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist and Radiation Oncologist)
- Paedodontist
- Perfusionist (cardiac)
- Periodontist
- Physicist (Medical)
- Physiologist
- Physiotherapist
- Play Therapist (hospital)
- PodiatristProsthodontistPsychiatrist
- Public health dentistry specialist
- Registered Nurse (including but not limited to Aged Care)
- Rehabilitation Counsellor
- Resident Medical Officer
- Restorative dentistry specialist
- Retail Pharmacist
- Social WorkerSonographer
- Special needs dentistry specialist
- Specialist Doctors
- Specialist Physicians Not Elsewhere Classified
- Speech Language Therapist
- Student Counsellor
- Surgeons (Including General Surgeons, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Neurosurgeon, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Otorhinolaryngologist, Urologist and Vascular Surgeon)
- Veterinarian
IT & Science Roles
- Chief Information Officer
- ICT Managers ($120,000)
- Software Engineer ($120,000)
- ICT Security Specialist ($120,000)
- Multimedia Specialists ($95,000)
- Analyst Programmer
- Developer Programmer
- Software and Applications Programmers nec
- Software Engineer
- Software Tester
- Other Spatial Scientist
- Environmental Research Scientist
- Food Technologist
Occupations With a Work Pathway to Residence
Occupations that may apply for residence after working in New Zealand for two years or longer are:
Agriculture Roles
- Dairy Farm Managers
Civil Operations
- Earthmoving Plant Operator (General) - minimum $34.11 per hour or above or the equivalent annual salary ($70,947 per annum)
- Backhoe Operator
- Bulldozer Operator
- Excavator Operator
- Grader Operator
- Loader Operator
Education Roles
- Kaiako Kura Kaupapa Māori (Māori medium Primary School Teacher)
- Middle School Teacher / Intermediate School Teacher
- Pouako Kura Kaupapa Māori (Māori medium Primary School Senior Teacher)
- Primary School Teacher
- School Principal
- Secondary School Teachers Science, Mathematics, Technology or Pacific Languages.
- Skilled Residence: Transport Sector Work to Residence visa.
- Special Education Teachers
- Teachers – Early Childhood
- Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
- Teacher of the Sight Impaired
- Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages
IT
- Telecommunications Technician
Trades Roles
- Automotive Electrician
- Building Associate (Building Construction supervisor) - minimum $44.49 per hour or the equivalent annual salary ($92,540 per annum) Common examples of job titles for this role are site supervisor, site manager, site foreman, build supervisor, build manager, civil project manager
- Civil construction supervisors
- Construction Crane, Hoist or Lifter Operator - minimum $38.56 per hour or above, or the equivalent annual salary ($80,200 per annum)
- Diesel Motor Mechanic (including Heavy Vehicle Inspector)
- Drain-layers
- Electrician (General) –registered
- Gasfitters
- Halal slaughterers
- Motor Mechanic (General)
- Motorcycle Mechanic
- Plumber – registered
- Skilled civil machine operators
- Skilled crane operators
- Skilled motor mechanics
- Skilled telecommunications technicians
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