Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 16th 2013, 10:57 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 215
Re: ugrent advice on General medical 1007
I didn't take anything apart from my vaccine certificates and they weren't needed. There was a questionnaire that I needed to fill in when I arrived which asked general medical questions and then the...
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Forum: New Zealand / The Sheep Dip
May 16th 2013, 6:16 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 250
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 16th 2013, 6:11 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 123
Re: Migration Agent advice
I've had a look and it is possible to get an open temporary work visa but it depends on what the spouse is...
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 16th 2013, 5:45 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 268
Re: Immigration Advice
If it was me I would not submit an EOI until a job offer was in place. You're very unlikely to be selected without a job offer but once you have one then you will be selected straight away [at most...
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 16th 2013, 5:32 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 162
Re: officer assigned to my application
You are applying under the SMC, correct?
They will assess your ITA and check all the documents are present and correct. If they are satisfied they contact you to say that your application is approved...
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Forum: New Zealand / The Sheep Dip
May 16th 2013, 5:23 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 368
Re: What three things?
Good stuff first:
1. How easy it was to buy a house. We viewed it and 4 days later had signed the contract:D
2. Cheap car insurance
3. How easy I found it to fit in at work, I found very little...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 16th 2013, 4:57 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 899
Re: first morning of bad weeping windows
Our house in Chch had a HRV system in it when we moved in and rarely had any problems with weeping windows. On the few occasions it did happen it was very minor and cleared in a couple of hours once...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 16th 2013, 4:43 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 443
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Forum: New Zealand / The Sheep Dip
May 15th 2013, 6:21 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 250
Re: UK full driving licence query
You just need to show your licence. They don't take it away from you.
You don't legally need car insurance in NZ so I don't know whether changing your licence will affect the cost very much:unsure:...
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 15th 2013, 6:13 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 304
Re: Thinking about moving to New Zealand
First things first:
Check your points total as MrsF said. I take it you are planning on staying permanently in which case residency is your goal. This would be via the Skilled Migrant Category and...
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 15th 2013, 6:03 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 268
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Forum: New Zealand
May 13th 2013, 5:34 pm
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Replies: 142
Views: 6,816
Re: Affordability of houses: NZ v UK
I missed having a brick house and saw Kiwi houses as quite flimsy until I saw what happens when a big earthquake hits one built of bricks [not ours luckily, ours is wood and polystyrene blocks] Wood...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 13th 2013, 5:22 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 443
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Forum: New Zealand
May 13th 2013, 5:16 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 231
Re: Open return flights to ChCh?
We did a return Chch to the UK on Emirates over Christmas and New year 2012.
We went Chch to Newcastle and back from Rome to Chch so not a true return. It was also the most expensive time of...
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 10th 2013, 3:43 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 261
Re: Timescales, healthchecks and worries
My understanding is that the EOI - ITA - submission - acceptance process will take quite a bit longer than three months even if we're selected and an ITA is sent out relatively quickly. I'm pretty...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 10th 2013, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 695
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Forum: New Zealand
May 9th 2013, 8:29 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,534
Re: Hello from a, "do we don't we?" girl
I was thinking that, if it costs 2,000-3,000 pounds to send a dog over, I wouldn't even like to take a guess at how much a horse would be :eek:
Definitely something for Hazelnut to take into account...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 9th 2013, 8:21 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,534
Re: Hello from a, "do we don't we?" girl
I couldn't understand the difference between our two values, so I ran everything through the points indicator and that gives the total as 120:confused:
It can't be adding on the points for a...
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Forum: New Zealand / The Sheep Dip
May 9th 2013, 5:14 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 119
Re: Question
And that was the best you could come up with? You're slacking Charismatic:p
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 9th 2013, 5:09 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 320
Re: EOI to residency time scale
Am I?:unsure:
little bit older than 21:(]
NZIS class full time work as being over 30 hours a week so as long as you can support this then you'll be ok. Less than this is worked out proportionally...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 9th 2013, 4:59 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,534
Re: Hello from a, "do we don't we?" girl
To add to EscapedtoNZ's post as no one has answered your questions yet:
So, adding up from the above:
Age - 5
Work experience, >10years - 30
Work experience in an area of skills shortage...
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Forum: New Zealand / The Sheep Dip
May 8th 2013, 9:11 pm
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Replies: 109
Views: 2,324
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 8th 2013, 8:41 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 368
Re: Permanent Residency GRANTED!
Give it time, it's early days. Is your husband in NZ yet? It will be so much harder being alone and having to deal with everything by yourself.
Stay in there:starsmile:
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Forum: New Zealand / Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
May 8th 2013, 8:33 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 320
Re: EOI to residency time scale
Oi, who are you calling an elder:frown:
I'm only 21;), bloody youth of today!!!
Not sure if there is a preferred template as long as everything is written down. Don't forget that you'll need number...
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Forum: New Zealand
May 7th 2013, 8:43 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 906
Re: Feeling disheartened
Agree with MrsF. Forget the advisor. I don't know how much they've quoted you but from costs others have posted on here it is often cheaper to buy return flights to NZ to look for a job than pay for...
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