tease

The money (via VISA) for our ITA has been taken - should we expect email conformation that we have been assigned a Case Officer, or should we be patient until 1-3 months have elapsed as per the NZIS site

many thanks

Boopy

Money was taken from our bank account end of November, we've still not heard anything, not allocated a case worker yet. Then there's the migrant levy to come out when PR is granted.

CWEMM02

Be patient. You can log onto the NZIS website and see your visas and their status. We sent our things in on 24 November. Our credit card was charged in December and we received contact the last week of March. Immigration interview was 3 April and approval was 7 April.

tease

Cheers for this - patience it is then - i'll just keep checling the NZIS site

CWEMM02

You can log in and look on the what's happening link. You will see the status of your current applications. Once we paid, nothing changed until the file was selected for reivew. The date lodged changed and agreed to the date the application was received by the NZIS office. At the same time, we received an email from the visa officer regarding an appointment for the interview.

You can use the NZIS website, branch pages to monitor the progression of the paperwork. There is generally a post such as "for the week of 21 April we are processing appications received up to..." You can also look at the statistics and check how many applications are on hand by month. You can then determine whether in the future processing times may become longer or shorter.

So, be patient like I said before. Keep researching and planning.