A 37-year-old Indian woman claims she was told she would have to sleep with her supervisor if she wanted to get her permanent residency.
Her supervisor was a fellow Indian.
Ananya (not her real name) told she was shocked this kind of behaviour was happening in New Zealand. She then quit her first job in the country after the proposal was made to her.
Ananya says she does want to get residency, but not through corrupt means.
"I want residency but it doesn't mean I have to sleep with someone - because I am a lady - or that I have to pay someone. I just moved from India because I don't like corruption everywhere.”
"I'm on the right path, so I'm not getting residency. But if I had given money to other people, I would have been fine. That's the message I'm getting."
She says she was offered a fake three-month job if she paid $50,000 to a recruitment agency.
Despite having years of experience in the Human Resources field and two arts degrees and a post-graduate diploma in business management in India, she had to study again and yet remained jobless sans the local work experience in New Zealand.
Ananya says she can't return to her parents as they spent the $25,000 saved for her marriage on her education in New Zealand. Now she says it's too shameful to return without a husband. She sees her only future in New Zealand.
Ananya told NZ Herald that if she gets her permanent residency, she would like to work for the Immigration department to weed out the fraudsters, so that honest immigrants have a chance.
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