[KatieBen]

Just had a letter from our CO - well, at least we have one. It thanks us for our application but they require more information.... We sent them everything we had!

1) Evidence of registration with New Zealand Medical Council - still being processed, sent them letters from NZMC explaining this, also from the agency that I was eligible to register and that they were facilitating it

2) Evidence of a stable relationship with my husband of 3+ years - we sent them joint tenancy agreements, joint bank account statements, photos of us as a family before and after the boys were born, a letter from our sons' nursery regarding our stability as a family unit, wedding certificate/birth certificates of children listing us both as parents at the same address

3) Certified copy of tenancy agreement - this could be tricky, we sent them the original. Sorry it looks like a photocopy, but that's what you get for renting through a cheap agency.

4) Oh and finally - our medicals were referred and will take up to 6 weeks (after which the MA will probably want more info. It will take him 6 weeks to find out he wants more info, after which we'll wait another 6 weeks!)


AAAARRRRRGHHHH! I was about ready to give up already, but now I've had some lunch and decided not to fall over at the first hurdle... What more do these people want? Blood?

[Toonster]

Didn't anyone tell you? It's three pints, minimum ;)

{hugs} particularly for the stable relationship - I would have thought that marriage certificates and tenancy agreements would have been enough (if not, my OH and I are in trouble - we don't have joint bank accounts, all bills are in either mine or his name, and we don't actually have that many photos of us together as either he or I were behind the camera!)

And I totally feel for you on the tenancy agreement - all of my most recent ones have been rubbish photocopies (one even with the relevant bits handwritten in!)

[JandM]

On your point 2, when our son was being sponsored for PR by his Kiwi wife, we supplied a letter from us about our daughter-in-law, telling about how we first met her, all sorts of personal details, listings of family occasions she'd been involved with, etc. - everything to prove that we REALLY knew her and that this wasn't just a marriage of convenience. A friend of the family here in the UK did the same for her. Then, our d-i-l's father and a friend of THEIR family wrote about our son in the same way. Suggest you could get your two families to do similarly about one another. I'd also repeat in writing to your CO your points 1, 2 and 3 here, just in case they've gone pie-eyed over their files and are sending you mistakenly what they might have meant for somebody who DIDN'T have their act together.

[KatieBen]

Well, I've just posted off more bank statements (addressed to both of us at home), lots of insurance documents (addressed to both of us, or in the case of car insurance naming each other as officially allowed to drive each other's cars), more letters from the rental agency and an original shorthold tenancy agreement.
I didn't include 3 pints of blood as I was afraid it would damage the envelope but I'm sure the MA will want it!
Thanks for the idea about the family letters, I'll get my sister and mother-in-law to write for us.

Feeling much better after some chocolate and cake. This application is going to be hell for the diet, good job we've had the weigh in for the medicals already! (BMI down from 35 to 27 :-) and heading back up again rapidly!)