First steps - where to start?
 

Hi,

We have recently decided we'd like to make the move and have no idea where to start!

My husband is 27 years old, an air conditioning engineer with 7 years experience but no formal qualifications apart from his safe handling requirements.

I'm 28, a HR Advisor with 2 years experience so i am pretty sure i can't be counted towards any points.

We've seen his trade on the long term skills shortage list but don't really know waht do do next!

Can someone help us please?

Thanks in advance

Jenny

Re: First steps - where to start?
 

Welcome to the board. I know you said that you lack formal qualifications, but there are a number of changes, relating to extending the amount of time that can be spent studying while on a Working Holiday Visa, coming up. I think, for example, there is a proposal afoot to substantially increase the amount of time that those on the Working Holiday Visa program can spend trying to get a qualification while in New Zealand. Alternatively, as I mentioned on a another thread entitled "Immigration Changes Effective Today", from the 25th of this month, the authorities are enacting changes which allow for easier recognition of trade qualifications so it may be worth checking the new regulations. I hope this helps, good luck with any future application.

Re: First steps - where to start?
 

Hello,

First things first visit the official website and check how many points you can claim on the calculator http://www.immigration.govt.nz/

I can only comment on PR visa (Permanent Residence) but you can go for the WTR (work to Residence) visa. You need 100 points to submit for EOI (Express of Interest) to be placed in the pool, if you have 140 points you will automatically get selected, but you are more likely to get a better chance if you have a job offer, this is worth 50 points. the selection takes place every 2 weeks and it all depends how many points people have and what places they fill (the more points the better the chances). once you get pulled from the EOI pool they will check what you are claiming for and either throw you back in or send you an ITA (invitation to Apply), this is where you gather all the information and send in medical results and police checks, if this is all passed they will grant you a visa or not.

This is a very very basic overview of the process, it can take anything upto a year for this process or as little as 8 weeks.

You will need to get your qualifications verified with the to confirm the points for your qualifications.

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/

I hope this helps a little. We did the process ourselves as did most of us on here and I found it to be quite straight forward once you get used the order of things.

Good luck I hope this helps a little

Re: First steps - where to start?
 

Hi
There have been a few threads on here recently about gaining points on your EOI if you have no formal qualifications. The problem is that though your husbands job is on the LTSSL he has no quals so would not be able to claim the extra bonus points awarded for it. Nor would he get the 50pts for a basic qualification. So he would need to get a job offer first before applying to gain enough points. Do you have any qualifications?
You are both under 30 so can go down the working holiday visa route, which I don't know very much about I'm afraid-being a little bit too old myself:rofl:
Have a look on the NZIS website
http://www.immigration.govt.nz/
It can be a bit confusing at times but is generally very helpful:thumbsup:

Hope this helps
Sue:D