[Tate6]

I will try to make this short-
My sister, my hubby and kids and I are starting the process of moving to NZ. My sister and I are the only children in our family. Our parents, 65 & 66, want to move with us.
They both have health issues and we are the only children. Do they really have to wait 3 years from the date of our PR to move over????
I know they can come for 6 months, but they are going to have to sell their home to do this and they really could not handle traveling back and forth every six months.
PLEASE tell me there is another way!!
We are wanting to buy a large home, preferably with B&B to share. Yes we are a close family!;)

Any info would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!
Terry

[Milliemoo]

Sorry, can't answer your question, but read the thread title and thought "well that's just charming, they must really hate their parents!" LOL :D

Milliemoo

[NZ Hopeful]

Thats exactly what I thought too!

[kanatakiwi]

I think its wonderful to hear of such a close knit family. I think that is more prevalent here than in North America. I don't have advice re your parents' immigration but would suggest you get their applications in as soon as, and talk personally with your CO to let them know how dependant your parents are on your and your sister.
good luck

[JandM]

I'm very touched to hear of your close family community, and sorry not to be able to show you a really quick solution. Here's a link to a thread where someone had a similar situation with their elderly father. http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/showthread.php?p=218041&highlight=parents%2Fgrandparents+visa#post218041
And here's what I said there.
There are so many of us who wish there was some way the rules would be 'soft'. (Big sigh.) But I don't think so. No, a parent can't be a dependant. The one thing I can think of that might ease things for you is this. http://www.immigration.govt.nz/NZIS/operations_manual/8478.htm The parents'/grandparents' visa would allow him to be in NZ for six months at a time, up to a maximum of eighteen months out of a three-year period. And/But I notice among the questions on this page that he could have had a nine months' stay on a visitor's visa immediately prior to applying for the parents'/grandparents' visa. So if you used BOTH options, he could spend quite a long part of your first three years in NZ with you, even though he'd have to leave the country in between. And once you'd been there for the three years and got your PR, you could sponsor him for PR in his turn.

This depends on your father being in good health and spirits and happy to manage for himself in between being with you in NZ, of course.

I notice you say your parents couldn't handle travelling back and forth - the regulations referred to here only require them going out of the country during the currency of the parent/grandparent visa (though that has to be applied for 'from home'), so, for instance, a holiday trip to somewhere nearby like Australia, maybe with a family member escorting, would do it.

I should add, though, that your parents will need to have medicals to get the parent/grandparent visa, as well as for eventual PR.

I'm sorry if this isn't what you want to hear. The same goes for my family situation.

[Tate6]

Thank you all for your kind responses!
Yes, we are an oddity! Well, I guess we will have to use JandM's advice and work on that. My mother loves to travel, though it can be difficult as she has rheumatoid arthritis. My dad, on the other hand, is not one to like to fly much! So he will need convincing! This will take some thought. It is good that NZ is so strict and sticks to their policies. Wish it were so here in the US! All you need to enter is a heartbeat!

Again thank you,
Terry

[Waters9944]

Well, Terry, I think it's a nice thing too. I'm have to admit, that I TOO immediately thought you wanted to dodge your parents when I read the thread title :o I'm so ashamed!!!

But, I'm glad for you and your brother that you want to keep your family intact. I think you should do EVERYTHING in your power to help them get there. I lost both of my parents not long ago, and my 2 brothers are henpecked and shortsighted about family. So, I'm pretty much alone. I'd do ANYTHING to have my family around me again. So, good luck to you....:nice1

[batgirl1001]

I'm glad you raised this question cos the answers are helpful to us too.:nice1 We aren't there yet but we'd like our parents (both sides are retired) to visit us and stay longer than 1 month on a visitor's pass.

The only different point- we don't exactly want them to stay with us.....:D, just near enough to visit often if they like.

[JandM]

The only different point- we don't exactly want them to stay with us.....:D, just near enough to visit often if they like.When we made a long visit, our son put advertising cards in local dairies, asking if anyone would be interested in having a house-sit ('by house-trained British parents') for the time of our visit, and vetted the responses. By this means, we ended up paying a tiny rent for the full use of a very nice house about 20 minutes' drive from the family, whose owners were touring in Europe at the time. They had the reassurance of knowing that their house, not visible from the road, wasn't unattended. Win-win situation.