[Suniel]

Hi All,
Upon followup I received the below email from NZIS London.


"Your application has recently been assigned to a Visa Officer for processing. I have forwarded your email on to the Visa Officer so they know you have been in touch.

The Visa Officer will be in contact with you should they require anything further from you."

As lot of people in this forum have applied from London, can anyone advice how long does it take from this stage onwards till a call is received from NZIS/CO?


Cheers,
Suniel

[Suniel]

BTW, My application's worth 105 points only, as over a period of time I have put of 1 1/2 yrs (crossing 29 yrs) and which automatically deducted 10 points of my EOI :wah

[Kalla]

Hi

we went through London branch - check our timeline.
Near enough 4 months from ITA submission.

Good Luck.

[FamilyGuy]

Ours was about 2weeks from allocation of officer to decision but we did have to supply some extra paperwork to prove co-habitation. 15yrs married was not enough!! LOL
Telephone interview to decision was 48hrs.

[Mrs Pony]

No job offer... it took us 4 months to hear something...

[Suniel]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm in no hurry to hear a positive reply as I have moved to UK from Singapore about 3 months back {needless to say have dried up all the savings to make this move and relocate}, it would take about 6 months for me to recover financially and I plan to move between Nov'09 to Mar'10.
Thanks once again. TC.

-Suniel

[tmprince]

Hi ,we submitted our ITA from South Africa and it was lodged in London on the 26 June 2009, so far we have heard nothing ? is this normal?
we where advised to send all original documentation as well as our medicals and passports and had all these dulley couriered to London.
anyone know how long before being assigned a CO ?
the waiting is killing me I feel so unproductive at least from EOI you are busy running around collecting documents and stuff and now nothing.
does anyone suggest emailing them for a check up on the progress? I have heard that if you do they will put your application on the bottom of the pile?

[JandM]

You've joined the club, that's all this is. Sympathies. Going through this process takes - as long as it takes. Your file is in the hands of a big bureaucratic machine. There's no way of telling how many people are ahead of you in the queue, how complex their cases are, how hard the case officers are working, how many of them are on holiday just at the moment - all that kind of thing. It's hard not to regard the apparent lack of movement as personal, but there's no evidence that any one group of people is favoured over any other.

In general, people don't hear anything much. Some people don't hear anything until their CO (whom they didn't even know they'd been assigned) contacts them for some more information, or to arrange an interview. Generally, no news is good news, as if the CO doesn't need more info, things are all checking out.

Don't forget to live while all this is going on. I remember a story I heard, that a couple had tickets for some special show booked ahead of time for a treat for their daughter's birthday, and were so taken up with worrying about their NZ immigration application that they totally forgot to go - that's really sad.