brandn

VISA's GRANTED!!

Well chuffed!

Cava Fizz

Quality well done mate, where you moving to, what you going to be employed as?

hitchcock71

welldone xxx where are off to??

P2L

Congratulations Brandn

It's a great feeling innit!!!

brandn

We are off to Auckland, certainly to begin with. I work in IT. No job set up yet but i have a few leads. My wife is therapist and has a few leads as well.

Its great to finally get the visa's. My mind is spinning now with all the things we now have to do to get ourselves organised! I think i'll just chill out for a few days and enjoy having the visa's before launching into full 'lets get organised' mode!

lardyl

well done, what sort of therapist BTW?
MrsL is a therapist of the SLT varitety.........

brandn

Cheers Lardyl,
She is a systemic psychotherapist, specialising in family therapy. She has made a few good contacts already so hopefully will be able to get work out there.

lardyl

MrsL works with an ex-pat Ed. Psyc. who in her former life (ie country) practised in that sort of field, and she comes from a medical family (most of whomn ar ein NZ) so if you are stuck she may be able to point you in the right direction. Got any idea where you want to live??

brandn

Just to have somone who works in the same field to chat to would really helpful, cheers for that.

We did a 3 week reckie trip a couple of years ago now but we didnt really stay in Auckland for long so have very little 1st hand experience of the areas, just what we have researched online. We have looked at a few areas all over Auckland but need to actually go and have a good look before we decide, Titirangi, somewhere on the North Shore or perhaps the Whangaparoa peninsula are all on our shortlist to go and have a good look at. Somewhere with decent schools as well as we have two sprogs fast approaching school age.

lardyl

mmm....was just about our shortlist too - titirangi is nice undulating and sort of out in the sticks - transport into the CBD can be difficult though, same for Whang'oa (where we are - check out my other posts) and the Shore is the Shore - some love it, others prefer a slightly more laid back place such as where we are - it was dictated more by where MrsL is based - Stanmore Bay. Good luck in whatever you decide, LL

Sue

Congratulations

dreamfish

fantastic news - well done!!!

annbee

congratulations and well done, we are just about to submit our paperwork, out of curiosity how long did it take from sending paperwork to getting the phone call? good luck with your new life in NZ

brandn

We submitted our ITA in Nov06, took several months to get a case officer who asked us for a couple of extra obscure bits of documentation. Sent the last bit to her 10 days ago and bingo. Full residency granted today.

Spacecake799

Whats your area of IT?