[Wahlet]

I'm about to send off my Application for PR via the Skilled Migrant category. I have an undergraduate degree, work experience, and a NZ job offer, all in an area of absolute skills shortage (total of 185 points on EOI). I claimed four work experiences on my EOI. Two of them are hard to verify, and one requires some time to acquire evidence for it. These three add up to only around a year's time. The one remaining work experience was more than three years in length.

I'd rather not spend the time digging up evidence for those three short work experiences if I don't need to. I'd still have 180 points with only the one work experience of three years' length.

Would this slow down the approval of my application? If I'm going to get my PR before my preferred move date, I'm "pushing it" already. What do you recommend? Anyone made a similar decision? Writing this now, maybe I'm just making mountains out of molehills and should just tell my visa officer to ignore those three minor ones. Comments please.

[CJ22]

I'd skip them. I didn't claim for my qualifications because I didn't need the points and would have had to go through NZQA. I think it's legit not to claim for stuff if you don't need the points, as the simpler the application is the less there is to go wrong.

[Wahlet]

I think I will skip the hard-to-verify ones, or just send whatever meager evidence I have on hand for them. My visa officer says "No this shouldn’t affect your application. You have enough points without including your work experience."

[lockstock]

You could discount them as not relevant to the work experience claimed for.

[qslinger]

I'd skip them. I didn't claim for my qualifications because I didn't need the points and would have had to go through NZQA. I think it's legit not to claim for stuff if you don't need the points, as the simpler the application is the less there is to go wrong.

Wish I had thought of that!!!