Originally posted by BritboyNZ
My Interpretation of all this is as follows:

For those who have already applied for PR under Gen. Skills:

If you submitted your application before 20/11/02, then your application will be 'lapsed' (ie they won't process it any further) and your application fee will be refunded, UNLESS you:
a) included a job offer OR
b) scored 28 points or more OR
c) NZIS have already issued you with a JSV OR
d) NZIS have invited you to apply for a JSV (NB this is *different* from submitting a PR application with the expectation of *getting* a JSV!) OR
e) Your application is at the point of being decided by NZIS OR
f) You have lodged an appeal and are awaiting a decision on that appeal.


If you submitted your application after 20/11/02 and before 1/7/03, then the website simply says "Assesment continues during 03/04" If you included a job offer with your application, then you have nothing to worry about, and your application will be 'prioritised'. If you didn't include a job offer with the expectation of getting a JSV, then as far as I can work out from the info NZIS have posted, your application will continue to be processed. Whether NZIS will give you a JSV or not is unclear - i expect this will be clarified pretty soon though.


If you have not yet submitted your application then from tomorrow, 2/7/3 you will need to include a job offer. No more JSV's will be issued to new applications, nor can points be claimed for job offers not relevant to your qualifications or experience. Passmark stays the same at 29.

When new Skilled Migrant Policy comes into effect later in the year, applicants will need to have a job offer, meet the usual character & health tests, and then go into a 'pool' in which the people with the highest scores are then 'invited' to apply for residence, and then get either residence or work to residence, depending on their circumstances (eg someone who is currently working in NZ on a work permit would get residence, someone who has just arrived and managed to get a job offer would get a work permit & residence later on).


Bit of a bombshell I agree, and there are going to be some disappointed people out there, however it is worth pointing out that NZIS have not made any changes to temporary entry policy (ie work visas/permits, working holiday visas, tourist visas etc). Remember that it is still possible to travel to NZas a tourist, look for work, and if successful apply for a work permit and/or PR.

all the best

Russ

Originally posted by rickandkara
but we had till the 16th September before the medicals expired (and for what they cost I really didn't want to do them again).
........
Good luck everyone.

Kara

Originally posted by Carpenter
Kara,
We had to have our medicals done again as they expired whilst we were waiting for NZQA assesments. We asked the immigration services if we had to have the full medicals again and they said we could just get the doctor to look over then and countersign and re-date if nothing had changed. The doctor did this and charged us £5 per person. You will have to check this is OK with the immigration services and the Doctor first.

Cheers

Ian

Originally posted by halk
I submitted my application before 20/11/02, and scored 28 points. I have been granted a JSV. I am trying to secure a non-relevant job offer which under GSC I could get 2 extra points in settlement factors. However, new rules have eliminated non-relevant job offer points. Will my case be evaluated under old GSC or new IGSC?
Halk

Originally posted by BritboyNZ
Hi Karen

This is the big question. The NZIS website Q&A page relating to the changes doesn't say anything about what will happen to applications lodged between Nov 02 & Jul 03 - only that providing you met all of the requirements at the time of lodgement: "assesment continues 03/04"

NZIS haven't said that prospective JSV applicants will now Not get a JSV, neither have they said they Will get a JSV, so it sounds to me like they are waiting for the outcome of the appeal they lodged against the NZAMI court case and regardless of the changes they announced yesterday it will be months before a decision is known.

Sorry I can't be of more help, although look on the bright side - your application is still 'being processed' and hasn't been lapsed/rejected outright as will happen to people who were expecting to get a JSV, but lodged their application before November last year.

Keep smiling & all the best to you and everyone else for that matter with your applications

Russ.

Originally posted by sofistek
Just got a nukiwi.com newsflash. It included the following summary item:

b) The 6-month Job-Search Visa option is no longer available except to those whose applications were formally accepted by NZIS for review prior to 2 July 2003 and who meet the previous requirements.

So at least nukiwi have a positive interpretation of the new rule, for existing applicants. Tough on new applicants, though.

Originally posted by moose
Hi Kara, just a quickie,what is it your husband does for a living,I only ask as I am an electrician and therefore have to be registerd before I can work in NZ, and unfortunately as far as I'm aware this can only be done in NZ. So you can see I can't get a job offer whilst still in the U.K.

Originally posted by sofistek
Sorry to hear that. However, the way I read the new Skilled Migrant category is that people such as yourself can be invited to apply for residency, after having registered an interest. I'm sure they need skilled trades persons and will be inviting those that they believe can find work and settle well in NZ. Unfortunately, the interim general skills category makes it almost impossible for yourself at the moment. Unless there is some training or education visa that you could apply for.

Originally posted by Gra.B
It's not necessarily out of the question to get a job offer, there's nothing to stop him applying for jobs, and as far as I know he'd be able to get a provisional registration and start work while taking the exams. I could be wrong on this part though but worth looking at.

Failing that then surely he could go over as a visitor to find work, so not much different than the JSV. I remember someone posting a while back about an electrical firm crying out for electricians so I wouldn't say it was impossible, not yet anyway...but it may be harder when the new policy comes in to play.

Cheers, Gra...

Originally posted by sofistek
Hmm, what makes you think it would be harder? If NZ need skills trades people, then I would have thought that the skilled migrants category would make it easier, if the person has good experience and qualifications (even if they are UK qualifications).

But I guess it's too early to tell just yet.