[KiwiB]

Hi everybody,

just wondering about the NZIS London case officers who interviewed you all. Are they British or are they Kiwi ?

Have a nice day :P

[Bubbles]

Mine was Kiwi

:nice1

[bbq]

mine was kiwi

alex

[xanctus]

Ours in US was kiwi as well...I think the officer would be Kiwi, no?

[foolsgold99]

We had a kiwi too, looks like they all are

[Babette & Andy]

Pretty sure that ours was British, think Andy would have mentioned it if she was a Kiwi.

Babette

[RoadRunner]

I assume mine was Kiwi because she said she had lived in Wellington. I still can't tell the difference between a British accent and a Kiwi one. :oops:

[MB]

Our interviewer (based in D.C.) was a Kiwi. Our London case officer we only heard on her v-mail greeting, and I must say my wife and I phoned it twice and looked at each other with furrowed brows and argued as to whether her accent was Kiwi or British...a little bit like that Christmas episode of Jonathan Creek in which Jonathan and Maddie can't, er, agree about Rik Mayall's police sergeant. :laugh

I should add that I was born in Britain and have 'only' lived in the US for nine years or so, so I should have been able to tell about her accent!

Anyway, both our officers were very nice and professional.

(My usual footnote for folks not acquainted with UK stuff: Jonathan Creek is a BBC mystery series about 'impossible' crimes that have a rational explanation. E.g., this one was about a man who witnesses a suicide from a few feet away, only to rush straight up to the body and find that the person has been dead for many hours already. :eek Hmmmm.)

[Hannah-NL]

Off Topic: I love that series, is it still on in the UK?

[neilw71]

.....its on in NZ at the moment tho' !!

[MB]

Off topic... re. 'Creek:
Alan Davies and the writer, David Renwick, are busy doing other things apparently and so may just do a special once in a while. That's the last I heard.

The most recent series was really two half-series of three stories each that were shown about a year apart. The most recent of those were three episodes shown about 15 months ago in the UK. To help you work out if you've seen these, Hannah, one of the three was about a woman sitting on a beach who blurts out five random questions, off the top off her head, to her dead lover... and then immediately discovers that the answers are already buried in the sand beneath her, in a bottle. Er, apparently before she even made up the questions. :uhoh

[Hannah-NL]

Oh Goodie! Another good reason to move there... fast!!! ;)

[MB]

Back on topic (as I'm the one who took us away) :
this is an obvious point, I suppose, folks, but remember that your interviewer/CO might well have their own experience of living overseas for extended periods. Might be useful to keep that in the back of your mind at interview time. :nice1

Cheers,
Matt.

[Marie P]

oooooooooooh I wish I could give an answer to this thread :oops:

Marie x

[MB]

Soon, eh, Marie? :nice1