Chinese crazy for New Zealand's visa program  

新西兰开放申请打工度假签证 中国网友刷爆网站

据新西兰天维网报道，8日是新西兰2014/15年度打工度假签证向中国申请者开放的日子。新西兰时间8日上午10点(北京时间6点)，抢夺打工度假签证(working holiday visa，简称WHV)的“战役”正式打响。或许是汲取了去年所有名额被“秒杀”的教训，大量申请者早早开始刷新网页等候开放申请，令移民局网站“不堪负荷”， [查看全文]

(ECNS)— The official website of Immigration New Zealand crashed on Tuesday morning, when the country opened its 2014-15 working holiday visa (WHV) quota applications to Chinese citizens, according to skykiwi.com, a Chinese-language website based in New Zealand.

New Zealand has launched a China Working Holiday Scheme, which allows 1,000 Chinese citizens, 18 to 30 years old, to come to New Zealand for up to 12 months.

The annual quota opened for applications at 10am local time (6am in Beijing). But many people complained online that they couldn't open the official website half an hour before the opening.

The website was overloaded for hours, but some netizens were lucky enough to file the application. One netizen said on his Weibo that he had gotten in and made the payment.

By 3pm in Beijing, the quota for Chinese was full, according to the immigration website.