happynz

Uh, wouldn't you want to look at New Zealand's immigration website? Funnily enough, Australia and New Zealand are not the same country.


Maybe they would. It depends on the job and their needs.

If you want you can come here, take up employment on a temporary work permit (one year let's say) and apply for residency here. Of course your job offer either needs to be on one of the skills shortage lists or your potential employer needs to show that no suitably skilled Kiwi could be found and that you have the qualifications and experience to do the job.

Further down the track if you apply for permanent residency (PR) there are a whole lot of other variables to contend with. For example, there are jobs that can get a person a temporary work permit but will not qualify that person for skilled migrant scheme. There is also the various registration boards that need to be negotiated for certain professional occupations. Let's cross that bridge when we come to it, eh?

I hope this helps. Good luck and I hope that soon we will be able to write, 'Welcome to New Zealand, Krestsaf!'

krestsaf

i am sending my request emails via www.immigration.govt.nz
but my replies come from a .com.au address saying they dont deal?

can the following be done.

enter on whv for 12 mths and have ANY job for the duration.
3 mths prior to ending visa apply for work permit to enable me to stay longer up to 2 yrs if poss
after these 2 yrs, will i qualify to apply to stay perm?
will i still need to qualify on skills shortage

sorry for all the questions.
when we do actually arrive perhaps i owe you a beer!
ooh i presume your in NZ

happynz

Damn, that's no good.

For British, yes, I believe that's OK. For other nationalities they can only hold a job for three months and then move on.
Yes, but you will have to follow the procedures for getting a work permit. You will also likely have to get your medicals and police clearance.
It isn't automatic. You would still have to apply for permanent residency.
No, not necessarily. Your work has to be considered skilled. In my own case I applied a year after my work was taken off the skills shortage lists but I still managed to get PR. Go figure, eh?

No worries. Seems as if we are having a rather exclusive conversation though.
You betcha! yum!
I am.

krestsaf

so when my whv runs out, presuming say i work in a call centre.

3 mths prior i will apply for a work permit. do i still need to prove a kiwi cant do the job, or will my employer write a sort of statement to backup that they agree to me extending my employment

if the permit is granted, how long is it usually for, and can you apply each time it ends ie have say 5 permits concurrently over a 10 yr period?

what if i cant afford the medicals and police stuff etc.

is it easier as such to gain PR after being in nz and working for a time regardless of having a skill or not compared with direct blind application from UK.

where in nz are u.

happynz

For call centre work, yes I imagine so, but it may depend on the nature of the work.
Your employer will probably still have to go through the motions of advertising for local Kiwis and provide evidence of not being able to find any and you having special skills and so on (you know the drill by now).

Work permits are valid for one, two or a maximum of three years. Your length of time will depend on job and other variables.

You'd have to leave as there is no point in bothering to apply for a work permit exceeding one year because NZIS will not process your application without the medicals and police certs.

Believe me, if you are too broke to afford the meds and cop shop report you certainly will not be able to afford to immigrate here. This immigration lark ain't cheap.

You will get extra points for New Zealand work experience.

Where in New Zealand are you? :curse: grrrrr...If you insist on torturing me with SMS writing why not go the whole hog and write 'whr n nz r u?'



I'm in Christchurch.

krestsaf

haha christchurch is our preferred place. tell me what would you do as a plan if you were me. writing this on my psp

happynz

Krestsaf, my Sapphic friend, please refer back to all the words I wrote before. Somewhere amongst the words that I wrote I laid out several paths which you could take to come and live and work here in New Zealand. Only you can choose the path you should take.

Good luck.

backdoor

You are also young enough to qualify for BUNAC or SWAP visas. You are eligable until you are 35 years old. See www.bunac.co.uk. They are easy to get and will let give you a year to get yourself sorted in NZ. Just a thought.

krestsaf

ahh

help me out happy.

as you have advised so much relating to various situations, confusing to formulate an ideal route.

can you advise what you would do in my situation again?

Sophie_Wellington

Yes you have missed the point

Some countries discriminate against gay people when it comes to emigration, so being a lesbian couple may well have been very relevant to their application & therefore the advice they received from people in here. Question for you, why bring it up when there are 387,548 other posts in here where straight people just happen to mention they are married to a fella with two kids?

BEVS

Blimey. This thread's a good couple of months old now.

I believe the OP and her partner settled on Melbourne in the end, so perhaps let's not go there with the post from our ME forum visitor. :wink: