Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Hi Guys,

Thank you for all the help and support that I found in this forum.
New Zealand is awesome guys, I am working as a Software Engineer, I have found a job just after 2 months, life style here is stress free, great and nice people, everyone is so helpful. I am so happy here and wish all of you guys the best of luck :)

My time line:

* Silver Fern applied 27-4-2011
* Silver Fern approved 28-7-2011
* In New Zealand 5-9-2011
* Job offer 7-11-2011
* EOI 16-11-2011
* EOI selected 17-11-2011
* EOI successful 25-11-2011
* ITA received 27-11-2011
* ITA submitted 14-12-2011
* Requested to send additional evidence for partnership 22-12-2011
* Additional document submitted 16-1-2012
* Case officer assigned 21-3-2012
* Received a call from my case officer and he asked me to send extra documents 21-3-2012.
* Extra documents submitted 23-3-2012
* Meeting with case officer at the immigration office 5-4-2012
* Online status changed to APPROVED :) 5-4-2012
* received letter from Immigration 12-4-2012
* Passport sent 13-4-2012
* Blue sticker 18-4-2012 *********** WOHOOO :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Congrats Kimoloop!
I hope to be in your situation soon!
PS: if you don't mind me asking, what extra evidence did they request for your partnership? (I'm married but still not sure what kind of details they want) and what evidence did you submit originally to prove your relationship?

Thanks

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Thank you JJ,
They asked for a lot of thing as a prove of partnership and also how we maintain our relationship during the period of separation and what i sent was:

- Apartment contract for me and her.
- receipt that prove we were paying the rent
- picture of us together
- Invitations, letters and cards sent to us on many occasions.
- support letter from family members.
- letters from bank that proves that we are sharing the same account.
- evidence that i was sending money to her from western union.
- Partnership timeline and key events.
- Invoices for some gold accessories I bought to my wife
- Evidence for communication on Skype and phone.

wish you the best of luck :)

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

nice one
i'm going down the same route too
Silver Fern now sent in ITA - but it took me a year to decide to go for Residency as i've been here since end of 2010

Fingers crossed i'll get the blue stickers too - expensive business!

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Good luck Dennis.
why i took you a whole year to decide?

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

it took me time to adjust to being here
was hard at first - now i like it much more so i applied

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

hi kimo,

nice to here this story, and it's encouraging me as well, as i'm from Egypt, and I've got accepted in SFV.

good luck

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Thanks for nice sharing, kimoloop. I have been accepted for SFV this year and preparing my documents. I am a software engineer too and planning my journey just like yours. Hope everything will be as smooth as yours. :)

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Good Luck mozdok with your journey, everything will be OK dont worry, if you needed anything dont hesitate to ask if you needed any help.

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Thank you wm_try_it ,
good luck.
please dont hesitate to ask if u needed anything :)

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kimo, can I have your email if you don't mind, I want to ask you about some info, i dont wanna b a pain in the ass but you know the red tape in the Egyptian governmental bodies.

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

Hi,

I sent you a private email regarding the qualification assessment for Egyptian university, if you don't mind can you please answer me as i need your help on that.

Thanks :)

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will you please share your experience on this thread.. (SFV to PR) or (PR under Skilled Category) and poll also..

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Hi, hope that you will be fine and doing well. I am a candidate for SFV and these days working on required documents.

I need your comments on International Qualification Assessment. Actually, I hold two local profession degrees and one international certification listed as under respectively:
Associate Cost & Management Accountant (ACMA)
Associate Public Accountant (APA)
Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)

In academics, I am Masters in Computer Sciences (M. Sc.) and Bachelor's in Commerce (B. Com.). I have work experience of about 10 years that is blend of all area including accounts, finance, audit and IS audit.

Please share your comments on which qualification I have to choose for International Qualification Assessment for SFV purposes. Do employers in NZ prefer to consider the candidate only for the qualification of which assessment has been done by NZQA.

Some one told me that putting too much qualifications is not in favor of the candidate because it leads to over qualification and resultantly you may be rejected to get SFV, do you have any words on it..If level 7 is required and IQA results in level 8 then would it not be a good sign for the applicant??

Re: Silver Fern TO Resident (Success Story)
 

congrats mate! sure gives us hope. it's really nice to hear someone who succeded.

have a great life in nz.