[Paul and Linda]

Got my interview in the morning. :mrgreen:

:wah
WARNING: There was information missing from our application. Our doctors said that everything we needed to send was in a sealed brown envelope that they gave us. It wasn't!
:wah

Our X-ray certs were still in the large envelopes with the X-rays! Our case officer knew exactly where they would be, must happen quite a lot!

So ....don't believe everything your doctor says, or better still don't trust anyone! Not when you are applying for residency anyway (I'm not this cynical really :yes )!

Have to send them off special delivery again. :wah

Hope this helps someone else.

Cheers
Paul

[foolsgold99]

good luck with the interview.

[neilw71]

Good luck Paul - prep up a few notes and you'll be fine with it !

Let us know how it goes.......

Neil

[nickbraddock]

Neil/foolsgold99
How come you got your interviews so quickly after submitting your ITA?? I submitted mine a week aga, do you think I will get an interview soon?? What happens, do they send a letter asking for an interview or just ring you??

Cheers
Nick :nice1

[neilw71]

Nick,

It was 2 weeks for me from submitting - they just rang home and asked to arrange a convenient time.

I'm sure you will get a call next week :P

Neil

[Paul and Linda]

Just got off the phone.

Interview went very well, thanks for all the reassuring posts.

Didn't ask anything unexpected and seemed to be happy with my responses.

What with having to send our xray certs in will take a week or so for anyone to get back to us.... cross fingers eh?

Neil, hope you get to hear tomorrow, I'm sure if your interview went okay you won't have any problems at all mate.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Cheers
Paul

[neilw71]

Well done Paul - feels good to have it over and done with ! Now you just have to be patient again.....struggling with that here! Keep checking their web site to see if anything changed :P

Neil

[Paul and Linda]

Yay!

Got PR!

Sending off linda's passport next week.

Let's sell that house!

[markkellaway]

Wow, that was quick. I sent my ITA on Tuesday, it got to NZIS on Wednesday and the status shows as received from yesterday, here's hoping for ther interview/decision early next week! :hopeso

Congratulations!!! :nice1

Mark. :P

[Paul and Linda]

Quick! you're not kidding, my heart rate had just started to settle after the interview and then we get PR.....off to find my bottle of Calms!

Can't find my calms will have to have a bottle of something else instead...Hic!

I'd be prepared, it could happen any minute....thank goodnes they close over a weekend, at least you can relax and not hit the roof everytime the phone rings or the email goes beep.

best of luck

Paul

[neilw71]

:clap :clap :clap :clap :cheers

Congrats Paul !!!! That was quick ! I haven't heard anything yet...so hoping for a call on Monday now :hopeso :hopeso

Neil

[Paul and Linda]

It'll come mate, and don't be surprised, even when they tell you it's going to take a few weeks, if the next day they tell you that you have PR!

Have a good weekend, look forward to hearing from you.

Paul

[markkellaway]

This is all getting very real now isn't it. Has anyone else had the "are we doing the right thing?" and "what if...." thoughts? :eek

Mark. :P

[Paul and Linda]

Oh yes!

We've been adjusting our preconceptions for the past couple of weeks now what with all the posts about the cost of everything and the house temps in winter, but we are fully commited to living somewhere so beautiful and different (but not just one-off-gimmicky-different, in NZ I can see a lot of what people want to happen...happening, the UK is run for money and profit and where and how you live is always secondary...at best!).

I CAN STAND THE RAIN!!!

Paul

[Lil]

Paul & Linda, great stuff! I bet you are over the moon. Hope mine get sorted equally as quickly. :hopeso

Good Luck to you both!

[jesselyn]

Yay! Got PR!

congratulations! http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/fest/e118.gif

[neilw71]

To copy Paul & Lindas comments: Yay!Got PR !!

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/party/smiley309.gif http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/trinken/24.gif http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/trinken/24.gif A few of these will be in order tonight !

Neil

[markkellaway]

Well done Neil!!! I'm still waiting for the interview. :(

The wheels at NZIS do seem to be pretty well oiled now though!!

Mark. :P

[daventi]

Congrats Neil. :clap :clap :clap Chuffed to bits for you. :nice1

Hope my interview is soon :hopeso .Been 2 weeks nearly since receipt of ita.Bit all my nails down.Started on my pens now. :oops:

Bev & dave :cheers :cheers

[Paul and Linda]

Absolutely fantastic
:mrgreen: :P :mrgreen: :P :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :P :P :mrgreen: :P :mrgreen: :P :mrgreen: ;) ;) :nice1

Now all you have to do is stop yourself from having a coronary and you'll be ok!!!!


The sheer magnitude of being able to go and work and live anywhere in New Zealand forever...well its scary as .....as something that should have an 18 rating!

All we have to do now is do everything we had dreamed of being able to do!

Where to start????????????

Ah thats a good idea...a drink!....a large drink!!!

many congrats again :cheers :cheers :cheers

don't be a stranger

Paul and linda

[daventi]

Hi everyone.

You won't believe this.After congrats earlier on this thread, i received a call.

We,ve got our interview on thursday 11am. :mrgreen: We are absolutly petrified!!
I,ve had to open a bottle to steady my nerves.Hubby is doing strange sort of walk cum skip,(like John cleese silly walk). :oops: :oops:

Anyway wish us luck. :hopeso

Bev&Dave :nice1

[Paul and Linda]

Congrats on the interview :P :mrgreen: :P :mrgreen:

waiting is almost over :roll:

Believe me it gets scarier afterwards, when they say.......Yes, okay come and live and work here....in fact bring everything you have, come on were waiting for you!

Just make some notes go over them 30'000 times and try and put as much positive info into the conversation as possible.

It'll be reet! :cheers

Good luck

Paul and Linda :nice1

[Babette & Andy]

Paul & Linda, Neil - :clap :clap :clap congratulations!! Has it started to sink in yet? When are you expecting your passports back with the magical golden sticker?

Mark - good luck :hopeso for your interview on Monday. I'm sure you'll do fine, bet your mind will be going overtime though on Sunday night :wah

Bev & Dave - hope your interview went well (will check other threads to see if you've posted how you got on).

So much good news, just what I like to see when catching up on this week's postings :nice1

Babette

[neilw71]

Babette,

Thanks - yes, things are getting a bit more realistic now, especially as we now have one-way tix booked for 18th March ! 4 week countdown now!

Passports - CO said call him if they are not back by the end of next week, so that would be a 2 week wait.

Neil

[neilw71]

:nice1 :nice1 Yeah !!! Got 2 passports back this morning with beautiful blue stickers in them !! :P :P

4 days to get them back - excellent service from NZIS !!

Neil

[jesselyn]

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[Paul and Linda]

Hiya Neil, have you really gone for the one way ticket? I thought maybe we had to have a return ticket booked (haven't thought or read up about this since we started thinking about emigrating early last year.

Is it much cheaper?

Cheers

[neilw71]

Hi,

Yep one-way tix with Singapore booked over their web site (cheaper than any other agent or web site for this particular tix)

We have paid £440 one-way for mid-March from Manchester. I spent nearly a full day and could not find cheaper. Return was coming up at £850 for that date.

My problem with a return was that if you want a cheap ticket, then you have to name a return date - then call to change it before that date and have to pay maybe £100 each to change the dates - hence a cheap ticket becomes more expensive! Also it means you HAVE to make a return to the UK within the first 12 months. We may do that - but I don't want to HAVE to do it because I would waste half an airfare if we didn't!

I know some people prefer a return for the security, but we will have a credit card locked away ready for any emergency if we need to get back quickly!

Neil

[Moorf]

If you are travelling on a visitors visa then you must have a return ticket or you won't be allowed to travel... I assume with a wonderful PR sticker you can go with a one way ticket :P ohhh we wish! ITA being sent off this week when meds come back :hopeso

[veronica]

Singapore air don't charge for changing the return date. Best thing we have found is to book your air ticket as far in advance as possible. We have paid from £530 to £730 for returns at various times but this is bought because we have elderly parents and one of our kids still in the UK. To come out in July or August is nearly as expensive as the christmas flights so avoid those times if you can. Generally NZ to UK fares are expensive bought in NZ.

[Tanya]

If you are travelling on a visitors visa then you must have a return ticket or you won't be allowed to travel... I assume with a wonderful PR sticker you can go with a one way ticket :P ohhh we wish! ITA being sent off this week when meds come back :hopeso

Hey Moorf - have you seen a PR sticker?? Show you Richards if you wanna see one :laugh :laugh :nice1

Tanya

[Moorf]

http://tcwozere.co.uk/smileys/blah.gif

[Tanya]

http://tcwozere.co.uk/smileys/blah.gif

Now now - I was being nice

Tanya

[Paul and Linda]

Thanks everyone, I always tend to take the safe path/choice but we are commited to staying in NZ and with 2 kids don't really want to heve to make that long flight again.

I am surprised about July and Aug fares although I guess it's just due to it being our traditional holiday time.

Cheers

[markkellaway]

Hi All,

Had my interview today, seemed to go OK (I think), he seemed OK with everything. I did ask if he could give me any indication of the decision, i.e. if it would be PR or a work permit, but he said he didn't really want to say anything until he had gone through things and had a colleague check it as well. I just hope that I'm not the first person on the forum that gets a work permit instead of PR! :no :hopeso :hopeso :hopeso :hopeso

Never thought I'd be this nervous, I was fine before the interview, now I'm like a cat on hot bricks. to top it all we had our first house viewing at the same time as the interview, spooky coincidence or fate?

Mark. :P

[bbq]

good luck Mark :hopeso :hopeso

alex

[jesselyn]

good luck Mark :hopeso :hopeso

alex

from me too :angel

jes

[Mike & Nicola]

Best of luck Mark, hang on in there!

:hopeso

[MB]

Mark - all the very best from us. Hope the outcome is what you want!
:nice1
Matt and family.

[Nicola]

I just hope that I'm not the first person on the forum that gets a work permit instead of PR! :no :hopeso :hopeso :hopeso :hopeso



Mark I am glad I am not the only one with that worry. We have sat on our ITA for a couple of months, but now we have sent it back I am hopping from foot to foot waiting for my Interview.

Good luck I am sure things will go OK. :nice1

Nicola

[leslie]

ooooooh mark

you're the test for the rest. we're on edge with you - fingers crossed.

[Moorf]

Just as nervous waiting for your outcome... :hopeso Keep us posted.

Moorf

[Paul and Linda]

OH YEAH!

Passports just arrived for the 4 of us, stuffed with residence visas and RRVs.

Gotta get that house sold cos I wanna go tomorrow!

Now where's that corkscrew?

[Babette & Andy]

Neil - the 18th of March is an excellent day - not only are you off to start your new life, but for me it's my first day after finishing work!! Handing in my notice on Monday, and with a few days holiday owed I'm finishing on the 17th :P
We've basically decided that to make it all happen (planning to leave the UK in August) I'm going to have to start giving 100% to doing those final DIY things in the house before putting it up for sale, and then ofcourse all the de-cluttering / carboots etc
So come next week I have 9 days left in the office (I work part-time) so countdown to the 18th for me too :cheers
Babette

[neilw71]

Babette,

Sounds like there's a lot of changes coming up for many of us in the next few months! Exciting times!

Neil