[yarg]

There's a huge number of low skill immigrants in New Zealand, they don't really add that much to the country.

I don't imagine that any restrictions on immigration would significantly impact skilled workers.

That said, I don't understand why we would possibly have a requirement of VC involvement when the already money is there to actually do the work.

[madaxe_again]

So, despite being an entrepreneur, and having founded several successful and sustainable businesses, I’m one of your “unskilled migrants”. Sure, I’ve been coding since I could walk, I have current and expert systems and web technology knowledge - but I have a bachelors. In physics. Not useful at all, and puts me on the same rung as a golf course management graduate - actually, below, as they have a shortage skill.

One of the hurdles I am repeatedly failing at with trying to emigrate is that I do not have a compsci degree.

It seems that having a bit of paper is much more important than having a track record.

[yarg]

So in fact you're in no way unskilled, and if you're being measured as such there's something fundamentally broken in the way that skills are being measured and something should be done about it.

Nothing ever will be done, and it's a loss for the country.

[te_chris]

Because the VC's wrote the rules...

[lancewiggs]

Lol no we didn’t.