If “study-work-migrate” is on your mind, NZ offers possibly the straightest pathway… With lesser Kiwis flying across to OZ, indicates growing opportunities.

http://www.news.com.au reports (see link)

The country gained a seasonally-adjusted 3,100 net new migrants in January, the most since May 2003 and up from 2,900 in December, according to Statistics New Zealand.

Seasonally-adjusted, there was an outflow of about 2,640 people to Australia, while about 8,210 new migrants arrived in New Zealand.

On an annual basis, New Zealand gained about 26,700 migrants, compared to a largely flat figure a year earlier.

In the year, there was as net loss of 17,400 people to Australia, down from 37,900 a year earlier.

Net gains were led by migrants from the UK at about 6,000, China with 5,700, India at 5,600, the Philippines at 2,400 and Germany at 2,300.

Auckland attracted the biggest gain in net migration at 12,300, followed by Canterbury with 4,800, then Otago at 600 and Wellington at 300.

Auckland and Wellington’s net gains were largely in professionals, while Canterbury attracted technicians and trades workers and Otago community and personal service workers, Statistics NZ said.

Inbound migration is seen as one of the factors driving New Zealand’s accelerating economic momentum as it fuels a bubbling property market.

The Reserve Bank has cited it as influencing its thinking as it prepares to embark on hiking interest rates to head off future inflation.

Thursday’s report also showed a 12 per cent increase in the number of short-term arrivals to 292,400 in January from the same month a year earlier, for an annual gain of 7.5 per cent to 2.75 million.

The monthly gain was underpinned by a 60 per cent surge in the number of Chinese visitors to 30,100 and an almost doubling of people from Hong Kong to 3,100 coinciding with the Chinese New Year.

There is another interesting video from BBC that I highly recommend… on how migrant workers are helping the rebuild of Christchurch… http://www.bbc.com/news/26274555