lardyl

Hi all
I've been around the forum for a while, in and out - keeping in time with our aspirations to move to NZ and my attitude to my current employer.
To cut a long story short I looked for (pretty specialist) employment in NZ last year only to find the ideal job had come & gone and another was unlikely to follow soon. After much grief at work I decided to leave and resigned over the Summer knowing that 2 UK employers had positions for me. However, as I was deciding where to go another job in Auckland came up that I have now applied for.
The closing date is the end of the week and their HR people say no need to get EOI (skilled migrant PR) in before any offer is made - however, they also say you must be able to start in 3 months of any offer being accepted.
Is this possible? Should I have got the EOI (which is complete but only at 120 pts without a job offer) into the pool yesterday to meet the selection for today or is this all unrealistic?
At least I shall be able to take on the whole moving thing full time at the end of October as that is when my notice period ends.....
As far as preparation goes we have Police Forms ready to send, wife may well have a "racing cert" job but her registration to practice seems to take forever too and I couldnt run the EOI with her a principal applicant as she only wants to work P/T on arrival. Damn the timescales......

Jude J

I have no idea sorry, it was all different when we got our visa/residency.
Just wanted to wish you good luck

Lisa T

No problem at all - did the same and OH started work as required. Visa arrived the morning he flew out but NZ Immigration turned it around in less than a week.

Bit stressul to say the least and you may need a long lie down in a darkened room to recover but nevertheless can be done!

Good luck

lardyl

thanks guys!
my "mole" inside the employer says (via email this morning!) that we need to get things moving as the Institute do not really understand the full implications of the move although they are bona fide employers wrt NZIS.
Gonna make some enquiries of the local doctors today.
kind regards

ian

lardyl

thanks Jude - may see ya on the north shore as my job's in Mt Albert and Lisa's is in Rodney - hope the N Shore isn't too far from Hibiscus Coast where her base will be (touches wood!!)
Ian

karonious

Hi there,
we only put our EOI in at the end of July, accepted almost immediately, PR paperwork went in 25th August, Visa in my hand 26th September (and that included fraught 2 week wait over medicals), so yes, it is possible to have it done and dusted in 3 months from start to finish!
I surmised from your comment about wife's registration that she is a nurse? That took longer than the above, but I had my registration through before I began applying for jobs
Hope some of this is helpful
Good luck
Karen B

lardyl

thanks Karen got medicals booked and the real problem is my job - seems like it's going to be more of a struggle than I initially thought as the competition is keen to say the least!!!!!!!!1
Lisa is a speech-language therapist and just found out today that she only needs to register once any offer of work comes through ...... more finger crossing required......

Jac&Adie

Again can't help, just wanted to say good luck

Adie

lardyl

thanx m8ty - need it for the job interview - phone panels :scared: .......
Will keep ya posted......just finishing the missus's covering letter.

Jude J

It is yes, just a bit further north. Lovely place. Have any idea yet where you want to live?
Fingers crossed for you.

lardyl

make that just sent off the CV, letter and application form - plus I've booked a day of annual leave to bone up on my job !!! yehaaaarh....all systems go...... :scared:
As far as "Home" goes we're looking at Albany/Torbay - google earth shows Albany as a building site!! - but it does help to be able to look down on the real estate - someone says NASA have more up to date sat images - anyone know where??
Maybe we could live in Mount Albert and Lisa could commute to Hibiscus Coast against the flow - doubt it as she'll be sorting the kids!!
Other job (same employer) for her is in Henderson (N/S - who knows/) - then we'll be looking at Titirangi (as a suggestion from both HR depts) - but not practical for Hibiscus Coast I fear.
Ian

Jude J

Yeah there is loads of building going on in Albany, both houses and a huge shopping mall. Torbay is 5 minutes from where I live.
You will find the commute to town a pain but there is the park and ride which a mate of mine uses and another mate who works in town chooses to start at 7.30 so she pretty much misses the rush (she drives in)
Not sure about NASA images but I have a link on my home page of their space image of the day so I'll see if I can find any links from there.
Sounds like you have had a very productive night and got loads achieved. Well done you you deserve a nice big now.

danny.f

Once you've passed everything,been accepted,etc,how long do you have to enter the country? We can't be that far from submitting our application,but I've just informed work I'm available til mid-December.

poppets

12 mths i think

danny.f

Thank God. No hurry there then.