Report from RNZ A British doctor working in Kāpiti says he is considering leaving New Zealand because he cannot apply for residence. Kāpiti GP Harding Richards says the government is failing to retain its overseas medical staff because of its immigration policy. He arrived with his partner in 2018 and took the first step to residence – an expression of interest (EOI) – last March. But the government stopped any of those applications being selected when the pandemic started, and has given no sign when that process might re-start. Thousands of migrants are waiting to apply for residence and thousands more residence applications have been in the system for more than a year.