Originally Posted by gabell727

I enlisted an immigration specialist with a large Aukland firm to help with my immigration from the US about 7 months ago. During this timeframe, my son was given a diagnosis of autism.

Just today, I received a decision from the immigraion service stateing that my son is not of an acceptable standard of health (likely to require ORRS funding).

I will discuss my options with the immigrain specialist early next week. I will have to decide whether to apply for a wavier or just abandon my dream of moving to NZ with my wife and 3 kids.

I am on the long term shortage list, and have an excellent high level job in Christchurch waiting for me. I was actually offered the job before the first earth quake, at which time my son was normal. My employer has been waiting a long time, and would like me to start the job while applying for the wavier. Of course, I could not bring my family until we got the wavier.

I do not have a good idea of my chances of success while applying for the wavier. Can you help me to access this dificult situation?