rach1978

Hi my sister is looking at moving to NZ, Her partner is a electronics technician and ex military so hopefully job wise they will be ok.
The issue is my 6 year old nephew has feeding issues and is under the pediatric feeding team in the US, although they think this is not a life time thing obviously he will need some form of treatment here, does anyone know if they would be turned down because of this??

Thanks Rachel.

BEVS

Yes they could be turned down . Note I say could not would.

It will depend on how much this would cost New Zealand and the outcome of a probably medical referral.

simonsi

If he is in the US then maybe the cost is already being picked up by some form of insurance, if they could demostrate that the insurance cover would stay in place that may help - but they will want to know detail as BEVS says, there is a lot of difference between being on a special diet and perhaps needing regular/continual hospital care and NZIS will want a view on where the child is between those scenarios.

Newfies

Ditto with Bevs

It is very possible that they could turn you down. It really does depend on what sort of condition that is diagnosed and what the cost of treatment is likely to be.

New Zealand is a very small tax collecting country with limited resources and specialists.

Just as a thought may it be better to hold emmigration for the short term until there is an official diagnosis and treatment. Mainly due to the fact that there are limited specialist paediatric consultants in New Zealand and you may find that the treatment is better within the US!

Also as an addition to simonsi it may not be of interest to them that the cost of treatment may be insured/covered but down to the fact that limited resources are further stretched.

As an example a female on a work permit who became pregnant was forced to leave (I think that her permit was revoked, some clause that was in there apparently) due to overstretched maternity services. She was able to pay privately but was still refused and had to leave to have her baby.

BEVS

I would be interested to read about that case.

Newfies

I got the type of visa wrong when I found the article but here is a link and a snippet of what was said.

"It does not matter whether the applicant is prepared to pay for services, New Zealand simply does not have the healthcare resources to offer maternity services to visitors," Mr Coleman said.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/educ...ed-to-leave-NZ

j19fmm

Bit different I think, she wasn't originally a student, got to draw a line somewhere I guess

BEVS

Thanks . I'll have a bit of a read later on.

Kiwiprincess

That was a bit different. She was here on a legitimate visa and sought to change it or at least, extend her stay at the end (by becoming a student). She simply wasn't eligible for the second one.

simonsi

Having read it I´m not sure that that story wasn´t about a possible case of health tourism in any case.

I would sympathise and agree with NZ immigrations point of view, wish the UK had a similar view TBH....