Need some upto date info on move to NZ ASAP
 

Hi Everyone

We looked seriously into a move to NZ nearly three years ago and went through all of the processes, made a 5 week visit but decided at the time it wasnt right for us, plus it was difficult to get a job.

Well 3 years down the line my current job is coming to an end and I may have an amazing opportunity of a job offer with one of NZ companys on the acredited list.

So if I get the job, which I may know in 1 week, how soon could I be out there. I know the points system has all changed to Expression of Interest Pool. Will we have to go in the pool even though I have a job offer. Do I still need points? What is the points system based on?

Timing is really key for us this time.

It would also help if you could give us a quick checklist of what we need to get done. Below are the bits I remember we need to get done.

Police Check
Medical
Immigration Checks
Flights
Container.

Cant believe we have started on this roller coaster again, but this time it feels more real.

Any comments welcome.

Paul

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Hi there

I see there are lots of people reading this but no comments just yet.
I have now been told by NZ immigration London it could be just 4-6 weeks for visa with job offer and quoted only £80 each, which I thought was very cheap. Probably as they had already made money from e on the £1 per min call.

Still need some help and info on timescales for medicals and police checks.

Got my video interview nexts weds, so fingers crossed.

Please help if you can.

Paul

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Are you talking about a visa with job offer or residency with job offer. if the company is on the accredited list, you can get a work to resident visa in a matter of weeks (ours took two weeks, but this was 3 years ago..). Advantage..really quick turnaround and you can get to NZ quickly.. disadvantage is it is not PR yet.

but there is nothing stopping you getting to NZ on your work permit and then applying for PR from NZ. disadvantage is paying twice.

I think the PR process is longer than the work permit process, but somebody else may know how long...i would imagine around 3 months?
just make sure in your enquiries you make a distinction between PR and a work permit.

hope to welcome you in NZ soon....

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I was talking to someone in Auckland who has been on the ground for a couple of years working with a permit and had their PR application fast tracked - taking 14 weeks, which is said to be a record in these parts... unless someone else knows better, of course.

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Thanks for the info guys. I am a little confused and obviously rusty on the visa situation since we last looked 3 years ago. I have checked the NZ imigration site but still not sure.

Can you explain further what you mean by "Are you talking about a visa with job offer or residency with job offer"

The company is on the acredited list so what is the differance in applying other than time.Can you remind me what a PR is and if I could apply first but how that would impact timescales.

Cant get hold of my local medical company so still in the dark on costs and timescales on this one.

Having spoken to my potential new employer 4-6 weeks is good for them but I think that could be unrealistic if the police check takes 40 days plus 6 weeks for visa, that 12 weeks, hope they will wait.

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[QUOTE=Pastor Flaps]Hi Everyone

We looked seriously into a move to NZ nearly three years ago and went through all of the processes, made a 5 week visit but decided at the time it wasnt right for us, plus it was difficult to get a job.

Well 3 years down the line my current job is coming to an end and I may have an amazing opportunity of a job offer with one of NZ companys on the acredited list.

So if I get the job, which I may know in 1 week, how soon could I be out there. I know the points system has all changed to Expression of Interest Pool. Will we have to go in the pool even though I have a job offer. Do I still need points? What is the points system based on?

Timing is really key for us this time.
It would also help if you could give us a quick checklist of what we need to get done.Below are bits I remember we need to get done.

Police checks
Medicals
Immigration checks
Flights
Container

Can"t beleive we have started on this rollercoaster again,but this time it feels more real.
Any comments welcome.

Paul

HI.We have applied for residency without a job offer so ours is taking 4 - 7 months.
If you have a job offer then your residency is usually through in 4 - 6 weeks as long as you have all your paperwork ready.You still need to do an expression of interest but you will be selected automatically cos of job offer and then sent paperwork for residency.You need 140 points .You can do the quick points calculator on the immigration website to see if get enough points for residency.The expression of interest form takes a couple of hours to complete but it forms part of your residency application.£100 for that.They select from the pool every wednesday and let you know the next day when you are selected.
Police checks take up to 40 days to come back to you once you have requested them but only last 6 months so I would wait until you are selected from the pool.£10 every person over 18 yrs included in application.
Medicals need to be done by a dr on the recognised panel for immigration (found on nz immigration website).They only last 3 months so we had ours done last.There was only a 2 weeks waiting list in Sheffield and results were posted to us within 10 days. Cost £685 for 2 adults and 2 kids!!
Do you have a house to sell?That seems to take the longest.
Your passport needs at least 2 years left on it for residency.
Things you need to send for residency application are,
birth certs,passports,relationship evidence if you are including partner/spouse(letter from a friend stating you are in a stable relationship,evidence of living together eg,joint letters,bank accounts etc),proof of qualifications,job history,job offer in writing.Anything you are getting points for ,you need to send evidence.
Hope this is useful.

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hi paul
police checks takes 4 weeks and the medical you book go and have your cheast xrays and than take them with you to the medical appointment,thats done the only thing you have to wait for is the blood samples which take seven to ten days then they send the results to you.
dont forget that the medical has to be within three months of travel or you have to do it all over again and its bloody expensive!!!!!!!
hope this helps
jane

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how expensive are the medicals?
2 adults, 2 kids aged 8 and 4.

Paul

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Adults will need chest xrays and blood tests also,kids just need medicals.My kids are 5 and 7 .It cost £685 altogether.

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Your right, bloody expensive. Although its not the cost that worries me its the blood test. I am a typical bloke when it comes to blood. Better make sure I am sitting down so I dont have to far to fall.

Thanks

Paul

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2 adults xray = £75 each
kids dont need xray under the age of 11
2 adults medical = £245 each
2 kids medical = £55 each

this is the prices in york , we have to go to the local york hospital, they have a walk in x ray dept 9-11 am and then on the same day we have a appointment at another medical center about ten mins out side of york.
wish us luck we have three adults medicals, three adults xray and 2 kids medicals to pay for grand total = £1070.00 :eek:

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The residency application also costs £585 and migrant levy fee of £480 for 4 people.Not a cheap option.
I beleive a work visa costs £80 and is organised in 2 weeks but that only covers you and not your family.You would need a separate visa for them.Where are you heading?

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Heading for Auckland. Hopefully got a job in the city.
Planning on living North of the city for a better commute, but will decide when we get there.
Priority for us is schooling for the kids and a nice house in great location.

Just back to the visa then,

I have been told £80 for me, £80 for my wife and £80 for my daughter who will be in school and £40 for my son. My understanding is that this will get us into NZ and I can start work.

Where does the residency application of £585 and migrant levy fee of £480 for 4 people come into play.When does this need to be paid. What is a migrant levy. Is this based on the type of visa or does everyone have to pay it.

Could someone please tell me then which visa I need to apply for with a job offer from an employer on the acredited list.

At my interview on Wednesday, I need to be 100% factual and clear on timings, options and terminology.

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Hi Paul
Forgive me for being thick, but what is the acredited list? and where do i find it?

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The acredited list can be found on the NZ immigration website.
It list a number of companies who can provide job offers to migrants and therefore qualify for more points. It also enables someone with significant work experiance to get a visa, rather than qualifications. Thats my understanding anyway. If I am wrong, can someone please tell me, becuase my plan is all based on this!!!!

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Hi Paul.
With a job offer you can apply for a working visa which vary in length from 2 - 3 years.That will cost £80.After the work visa has expired then you will have to apply for residency or leave nz.
You can also apply straight away for residency with a job offer,and that will cost you £585 for the family with you as the principal applicant.
The migrant levy is £120 per person up to £480.This is to fund research into the affects of migration etc.This is paid when your residency application is approved.
I hear it is cheaper to apply for residency when you live in nz(medicals etc).You have the choice because you have a job offer.
Hope this helps.

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Ok I am a little confused now, in the last responce says I can get my medical once I am in NZ.

I am sorry to sound a bit slow on this but am a little confused. Would I be right in saying that I can apply for a working visa with my job offer which would cost £80 each. I dont need medicals but I do need police checks. This could get me in NZ in 4-6 weeks.

Once in NZ I have 2-3 years in New Zealand I can apply for Residency at which point I get the medicals. Once approved I pay the migrant levy.
In the future I can then apply for dual nationality.

Or I can apply for residency with the job offer but this could take a lot longer.

Bloody hell this is confusing. If I still dont understand it all in the interview, Im stuffed I think.

Any clarification would be very much appreaciated.

Paul

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[QUOTE=leggs]I have just read through this again and yes it is very helpful. I spoke to our local medical centre from the list and they have said earliest appointment is August and cost is £900, so a trip to Sheffield maybe on the cards. Not too far for us.
I will check the website again for my points. I worked it as 110 with job offer. Would this not be enough then?
Please read my last reply and see if you can clairfy further, thanks Paul

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[QUOTE=Pastor Flaps]
Paul

Just adding my comments to the pile we as a family of 4 applied for residency with a job offer on 105 points EOI accepted and now successful so paperwork on the way back so 110 is worth a try

Rick

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Hi again.
It is very confusing.You are correct in saying that you can apply for a working visa with your job offer with just police checks.A friend of mine went to nz last year on a 3 yr working visa and she only needed police checks.
That is a quicker way to go.If you are already living in nz and you apply for residency you get your medicals done there.I also have friends who did it that way.
You can also apply for residency now with your job offer.Nz wants people with job offers so you are likely to be selected if you have 100 - 139 points.We have decided to apply for residency before we go so it is done ,and I have access to all the papers I need to send for it while I still live here.If you apply for residency with your job offer it will be fast tracked and probably take 4 - 6 weeks.

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We got PR in 2 days. We sent it registered post and it got to them 9.15 in the morning on the tuesday and on the thursday they rang us up telling us to go book our flights. Obviously everything else takes more time.... the police checks came back in just over 2 weeks if I remember right. Good luck.

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[QUOTE=rickg37]Hi Rick,

So what did you actually apply for.
I was on the nz immigration website last night until 1.00 in the morning and thought it was getting cleaer but was going around in circles.
My understanding from the website is that I will be applying under the Talen section and clearly says that I need to meet the health requirements.
Did you do your medicals?

Paul

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Hi Sarah

did you apply with a job offer then?
Had you already got your medicals sorted or did you do them when you arrived?

You did well, how is life now?

Paul

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[QUOTE=Pastor Flaps]
We applied as skilled migrants the EOI took about 2 hours to completed but mainly because you repeat a lot of information, as I said I have a job offer to start work in October so put their details on the EOI and from submission to being accepted and confirmed paperwork was on the way was 7 days. The only delay in the chain is we will have to wait for the police checks back and our medicals are the end of June hope this answered some questions

Regards

Rick & Tracy

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Ok, I know i said i was thick, but where on the nz immigration web site is it? Maybe i've already seen it but it does'nt ring a bell. Thanks for your help.

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Hello there

use this link and look at the bottom of the page to see another link to the accredited list.

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/nzopp...oresidence.htm

Hope this helps.

Paul

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Hello Leggs

I have looked through the immigration website and cant see any option to get a visa without the medical. Did your friends get this before a change.
Only three days to the interview, so spending evenings swatting up on everything NZ and making sure I know every about the visa situation.

Looks like we will have to travel for the medical if the interview goes well.

Thanks

Paul

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Hi Paul.
My friend went to nz last september so it may have changed since then.She didn"t need a medical for a work visa at that time.
Good luck with interview.
We have just accepted an offer on our house so I am looking for a job now.Hope to be in nz by sept/october.

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Hi Paul,
I believe the "work visa" you are talking about is a "work to residence visa" also called a "talent visa". this is the visa we came across to Nz with initially. We had to have both police checks and medicals done to get this work visa, im pretty sure this is still the case. be prepared to have to do police checks and medicals.

there is a difference between a "work visa" and "permanent residency or PR". If you want to apply directly for PR then if you have a job offer and more than 100 points you may be selected. This is the option that costs the several hundred pounds.

If you apply for the work visa (talent visa) the turnaround time is quicker and it costs less. It gives you two years, you can apply for PR at any time during the two years, or wait until the two years is up and then apply. The advantage is yoiu get to NZ quicker and it costs less, the disadvantage is you have to pay twice.

what we did (because timing was also a consideration) was apply for a "talent visa" go to New Zealand, start work, a month or so later applied for PR, kept working until PR came through, no hassles or stress about timframes. We did have to do two sets of medicals, one for the "talent visa" whilst in Ireland and one for the "PR application" when in NZ.

Hope im not confusing you too much.....

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Hi Newkiwi

Your explanation above really does help. Clears the mud into a dirty coloured water!!!

Just need to wait now and see what happens on the job front.
Looks like the interview scheduled for tomorrow is being postponed, so may have some more time for police checks to come through.

Thank for your help.

Paul

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Well its been nearly 2 months since our last thread and so much and so little has happended. In total I had three interviews, with one in Auckland. I flew out with my wife and was only able to spend 2 nights there, so very tired and jet lagged. We left not knowing if I had got the job and three later, I got the news as I was hoping for. A new job in Auckland!!!!!!

Whilst we were waiting, we took some risks and booked and got our medical done. We also renewed our childrens passports and got the police checks done. So nearly £800 spent and we still didnt know, but it had paid off.

Start date is still to be confirmed, but we are looking at end of September latest. All dependent on the visa now, with the formal job offer letter due end of the week.

Thanks for all those which gave us some great advice. I will send a new thread soon with our experiance of documents and applications so far which may help.

But for now we could really do with some info on the basics, shipping, bank accounts, schools. We like the look of Takapuna. So will send a new thread soon, again, thanks for all your help.

Paul

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good luck with it all

my police report took nearly 6 weeks from the good old north wales police

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Just remember if you do not have Permanent Residency then your children will have to pay international school fees!

We submitted our paperwork for Residency with Job Offer and everything was back within the week, complete with visas. My OH went ahead of us so that he didn't make his employer wait any longer.

What do you do? We'll be on the North Shore soon. Good luck with everything.

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That is incorrect. You do not pay international school fees if your child has a student visa, if you are on a work visa. I'm sure other will concur.
Cheers
Gill

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Sorry - must be my early morning thinking....didn't mean to give any wrong info!

I'll consider myself silenced!!! and have another cup of tea....

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Hi Lisa,
we will be arriving in Auckland on the 4th sept, we hoped it would be early as we move out the house on the 17th august!!!! we will be homeless, carless and scared.
We have three children and when i saw the school fees mention nearly collasped : :eek:
this is a big adventure for us and having many a sleepless night, but can't wait for it to start.......how was that second cuppa?
Jane

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Good morning Lisa and Jane

Well two ladies both from Yorkshire moving. I was actually in Harrogate two weeks ago at a trade fair.

I have just been advised we are now looking at 25th September as a start date, so will probably fly the week before.

We are looking at living around Takapuna on the north shore. But nothing definate at this early stage.

My job will be with Air New Zealand, working on the online sales through the website.

We are also very excited, scared and mad busy trying to get stuff done so there is not a mad panic at the end which I am sure there will be.

Where are you both looking at living and what will you be doing for work.
Would be nice to know two families moving at the same time. And also being northerners, no offence to our southern friends, I have worked down south for some years so know the differences.

Paul

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The second (or maybe 4th) cuppa seems to have given me a headache - or could that be the stress of selling a business, emigrating, summer holidays with two children and mad dog......

My OH currently is living in Herne Bay but we are looking around Mairangi / Campbells etc (although I keep getting drawn over to Greenhithe as the houses actually have gardens over on that side!). OH is a Chartered Loss Adjuster and Building Surveyor and he has been over in NZ since last October.
Not too sure what I will do when we get over there (Starbucks? - I know the lingo so the work should fall into place.......). I have owned a nursery for several years but have a business degree and worked as a Senior PA for a multi national before that (so temping is always a good idea 'cos I can usually type). I want to get the children settled in a nice school before I can commit to anything permanent - but I firmly intend not to rush into anything after the last few months over in the UK.

We'll have to meet up when we get over - it's nice to chat with people who have gone through the same sort of thing! Good luck with the new job!
LisaT

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How spooky, my wife is actually a team leader in a nursery and has been working with children for 15 years. She is determined that she will not be doing it anymore and wants to try something new, but like everyone, doesnet know what.

You and your OH have been apart for sometime. You must be really looking forward to seeing him and getting your family back together.

We should meet up when we arrive and share stories.

I am sure I will ask for some tips over the next few weeks.

Have a great day.

Paul

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Good morning to you too,
My other half has a job with Hays in the uk and he is moving out to work for Hays NZ.
We will be in the centre of Auckland for a month then he will be opening a new office for Hays in Albany.
Good only knows where we will live as its so expensive in North shore!!!!!
Harrogate is a lovely place to live and also very expensive so the shock of the house prices might not hit us too much.
We have three children 4,11,16 two girls and the eleven year is a boy.
I have not had a good night sleep for weeks and we seem to go 3steps forward and then 10 steps back!!!
just waiting for that stamp in our passports and we should be off.
We have sold the house so we will be homeless for a couple of weeks.
we tried to open a PO box so we can redirect mail but you can,t untill you arrive so mail will be in limbo too!!!!
All exciting stuff and every day something knew happens trying not to get too stressed .
Have you got kids?
We have learned so much by using this site and im so glad for every ones help
and advice,keep it coming
thanks
jane