[Rorschach]

Hi There,

After having just spent 3 weeks on a reccy of NZ (mainly Christchurch), my wife & I have finally decided to move there and start the process to PR.

I just have a couple of questions which I hope someone can help with:

1. We are planning to move there Aug/Sep 2009 (approx 18 months from now), so is it worth starting the EOI now or should we wait? (my understanding was that if your EOI is successful you have 6 months to complete the ITA and once that is done and dusted you have 1 year to get to NZ - but I may be wrong)

2. My wife would be the prinicipal applicant - is it correct that for both EOI & ITA we complete it just for her with both myself and our 1yr old boy on her application?

3. How much approx does the EOI & ITA cost?

Many thanks for any answers,
Cannot believe how excited I am about this...

[benandclare]

Hi guys and welcome :clap

As far as we know you're right with answers to your first 2 questions and this should help with costs from Tia

http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13682&page=3

[peebles16]

Yep I'd agree with Ben 12-18 months sounds like a good and realistic timescale. You would both be included as partner and dependant on any EOI/PR application made. 6 months is from when you receive ITA pack, I think?? or maybe 4 months - best check on NZIS website to submit it and yes one year to activate the PR.

Hope this is vaguely right :) and makes some sense :D

All the best
Karen

[nickydwuk]

.... 6 months is from when you receive ITA pack, I think?? or maybe 4 months - best check on NZIS website to submit it and yes one year to activate the PR.

Hope this is vaguely right :) and makes some sense :D

All the best
Karen

It is 4 months - well that's what my ITA says :yes

[Perksy]

Just one word of advice. We were reading that once ITA is submitted it can take some months to turn around. We had a job offer for October that could be delayed until Feb next year if we had issues selling the house. We put our ITA in and it took them just two weeks to turn around. The reason I mention this is that once you have your blue stickers you have only 12 months to go out and activate your Visa. Ours were issued this month so if we had to go to PLan B of Feb the Visas only just covered it. You don't have to stay in the country to activate your visa, you can fly out and get on the next plane home but we didn't relish the journey or the cost if we weren't actually ready to stay for good. So make sure you allow enough time but not too much that you are forced into an uneccessary trip. Kim

[Belmont Babes]

Also if you are issued with Work to Residence Visas (WTR) you have 3 months to activate them.