[kiwijock]

Can those of you who have got PR through partnership tell me how long it took from submission of forms to being agreed in principle?

We submitted our application on 3 June 2008 and after not hearing about an allocated case officer within four weeks as we were told we sent and e-mail enquiring and we were then allocated a case officer "who we would be hearing from shortly" and that was 3 weeks ago.

I know I'm being impatient but not sure if I should send another e-mail. We have a buyer for our apartment, :clap and I hate my current job and can't wait to resign but daren't until we hear.

Our application is fairly straight forward me sponsoring hubby, medical fine no children so I guess I hoped we would hear quickly as I have seen posts that people hearing within 4 weeks of submitting.

What is the average time people got agreement in principle?
Should I send another e-mail?

:):):)

[Kiwi-In-Texas]

Hi:

My husband applied for PR through the Partnership Category... We went through New Zealand Embassy, Washington DC...We phoned his Case Officer today and she told us his application had been approved and to expect a letter later this week or early next week...It took 3 months from sending in his aoolication...When we sent in his application he was assigned a Case Officer within a day of the Embassy receiving his application.


Hope this helps, although you are applying in England not USA.

[Clappy]

Going through the London office, my application was submitted on the 19th May, I received an acknowledgement within a couple of days which said up to 4 weeks to be submitted to a case officer, then up to 12 more weeks for a decision.

The first thing that I heard was exactly 4 weeks later which was the Approval in Principle letter.

I think you should try and be a little more patient, you are probably only days away from hearing so long as there are no issues with the documentation and the medicals.

But bear in mind, despite having a satisfactory medical and police certificate, they might be going over the partnership evidence. I have heard of cases on here where they didn't accept the original submission.

[James 1077]

We submitted my wife's towards the end of Jan to NZ House in London and got the blue stickers at the end of Feb.

We did, however, submit in person and said that the flights were booked for the middle of March so they did hurry ours along a bit.

[Nettie 2]

Hi,
I have just looked up my details and I applied for residency on 9th Feb 07 and received a letter advising me of approval in principle on 26th March 07. So, what's that? About 7 weeks. I then sent off the Migrant Levy and passport which I received back with my blue stickers on 3rd April 07.
I know it's hard but be patient.... it will happen! Good luck. :nice1

[dharder]

It took four weeks for us from submission (in person) to receiving the approved in principle letter. We got one letter from them shortly after submitting informing us of the timelines, but we didn't have any separate correspondence telling us that they've assigned a case worker. Not sure if submitting in person makes it any quicker, or pointing out that you have your flights booked, I really couldn't say. We didn't say we had any pressure, and it took just a month. I really think it depends on how much they have to do :)

As others have suggested, you might just want to give them some more time there, it doesn't sound like an unreasonable amount of time has passed yet.

Daniela

[kiwijock]

Thanks for your replies, I know I need to wait a bit longer - just had my hopes high after hearing others experiences of hearing within 4 weeks of submitting.

I guess I'm also worried I didn't submit enough partnership evidence (3 consecutive years of council tax bills with both our names, marriage certificate and photo's from our UK & NZ weddings) but after seeing some of the lists other have submitted was a but worried I didn't submit enough.

Thanks


:) :)