[pgw777]

Hi All

I am looking for some advice as we are pretty much pulling our hair out here.:(

To cut a long story short we have submitted our ITA and have been awaiting a final decision today regarding my medical. Today i was told that my medicalhad been approved, therefore we wanted to know when a decision would be made. We have spoken to our case officer who has responded to us with the following email:

'I have had a quick look at your case and it look like Paul's medical was the last remaining policy requirement. I have not actually reviewed the file so can not guarantee that statement. I will review it on next week and will hopefully be in a position to make a recommendation on the case. It will then go to a mandatory quality check (which takes 10 days) .At that point a decision in principal can be made with certainty.'

Fine you may say. However I have never heard any mention of a 'mandatory quality check'. Has anybody else?

Similarly i have been pursueing the outcome of my medical report - there was a query with it - for 3 weeks now and was told I would have an answer Mon, then Tues, and eventually today i got the answer. At no point did anybody say we would have another 10 days!!!

We are getting dangerouusly close to the point my OH has to hand in her notice, and the NZ co. have already been extremely generous in delaying our arrival.

It is getting unbearable. :wah Can anyone offer any advice?

Many thanks

Paul

[Angelonthemove]

Sound quite positive to me. I believe they go over the file in a rough sort of way and see what is missing. Your case officer would have sent you a list of things you needed to supply. If he is sending it on to be sanity checked then I would have thought (do not know for certain) that you are at the final stage.

Take a deep breath and wait and see and keep those fingers crossed. If you have job offers you should hear pretty quick. The company in NZ will wait otherwise they would never have offered a job to someone outside the country if they were in a hurry. Even if you were over here it take 30 days to get a work permit now.

Good luck

[dbonnett]

.... It will then go to a mandatory quality check (which takes 10 days) .At that point a decision in principal can be made with certainty.'

Fine you may say. However I have never heard any mention of a 'mandatory quality check'. Has anybody else?
Paul

When we had our interview about 2 months ago, our case officer said that he would do his work and then our file would be reviewed by another officer - we got PR 2 weeks later. From what I have heard from others here, this is NZIS standard operating procedure; I expect it is to catch any favoritism or mistakes. I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you have gotten to this point, you've cleared all of the major hurdles.

[Silverwing86]

Hi Paul,

I too can confirm that this is standard procedure. Every case where a decision has been made needs to be reviewed by another officer before final approval can be given.

We too ran into medical issues as I have Fibromyalgia, an arthritic condition (not the principal applicant). I guess our case ran much the same as yours although it took us 9 months (and four rounds of supplying yet more information !), from ITA submission to having the medical situation resolved ! It was sooooooo stressful after having been told the medical issues were settled, still to have to wait approximately 2 weeks for the final decision, it seemed so cruel after everything we'd already been through !

Don't worry, as others have said, if you've gotten this far you'll be fine. They just want to check that no mistakes were made and usually this is not the case as the Immigration Officers tend to be very thorough.

Hang in there, you're almost there ! Very soon you'll be receiving many dancing bananas in your "We have PR" post :laugh !

Silver

[pgw777]

Thanks for the replies and the words of encouragement.

"still to have to wait approximately 2 weeks for the final decision, it seemed so cruel after everything we'd already been through !"

Thats exactly how we feel! We thought that we be it. Constantly moving the finish line is very frustrating.

Things are going in the right direction we are just unsure about the re-action we'll get from OH new co. if we have to shift the dates.

Thanks again.

Paul

[benandclare]

Thanks for the replies and the words of encouragement.

"still to have to wait approximately 2 weeks for the final decision, it seemed so cruel after everything we'd already been through !"

Thats exactly how we feel! We thought that we be it. Constantly moving the finish line is very frustrating.

Things are going in the right direction we are just unsure about the re-action we'll get from OH new co. if we have to shift the dates.

Thanks again.

Paul

Can confirm that QC is normal, we were informed on a Friday at 9am that my medical issue was cleared up and that our case was being forwarded for QC and that this would take a week. At 11am we had a further e-mail that it would be attended to on Monday due to our timescale. recieved passports on the Tuesday with stickers in :clap so you are close very close :clap :clap

Ben