dave k
9th December 2004, 11:11 AM
How many more hoops do we have to jump through???
My girlfriend & I have been in NZ for the last 2 months, living in Wellington and hoping to stay here for the forseeable future.
My partner applied for work using her qualifications (she's an interior designer) and duly got offered a position with a highly regarded firm up on Thorndon Quay.
Great, we thought....now all we do is apply for a work permit for her, a de facto one for me and we're getting somewhere.
But no - despite everything in the news stating that NZ is crying out for new immigrants and young people to fuel its economy ( specifically white, English-speaking, well-educated people - their bias, not mine) - we are told that we have to wait 3 weeks while NZIS do a labour market check. This for a job that has been advertised since September, that the firm in question have interviewed 8 kiwis for with no success until my partner came along, and despite our sincere intentions to apply for residency in due course!!!
In the meantime we're running out of $ and it looks like we may even have to go back to the UK if they don't hurry up.......
Jeez - sorry to be such a whinger but we really do feel in limbo. It's great that Welly's so nice & sunny at the moment, which takes the sting out of it, but it's still a big pain. Especially since we saved up for a year to get here....
The wheels of bureaucracy spin at about the same rate the world over it would seem.
My girlfriend & I have been in NZ for the last 2 months, living in Wellington and hoping to stay here for the forseeable future.
My partner applied for work using her qualifications (she's an interior designer) and duly got offered a position with a highly regarded firm up on Thorndon Quay.
Great, we thought....now all we do is apply for a work permit for her, a de facto one for me and we're getting somewhere.
But no - despite everything in the news stating that NZ is crying out for new immigrants and young people to fuel its economy ( specifically white, English-speaking, well-educated people - their bias, not mine) - we are told that we have to wait 3 weeks while NZIS do a labour market check. This for a job that has been advertised since September, that the firm in question have interviewed 8 kiwis for with no success until my partner came along, and despite our sincere intentions to apply for residency in due course!!!
In the meantime we're running out of $ and it looks like we may even have to go back to the UK if they don't hurry up.......
Jeez - sorry to be such a whinger but we really do feel in limbo. It's great that Welly's so nice & sunny at the moment, which takes the sting out of it, but it's still a big pain. Especially since we saved up for a year to get here....
The wheels of bureaucracy spin at about the same rate the world over it would seem.