Lizelle
30th September 2004, 10:23 PM
Hija all,
I have been reading through some of the post for the last week (I have been away, catching up a bit), and I would like to relate my and hubby's story to some of the doomsayers:
We have been planning to immigrate for quite some time. Have looked at UK, USA, Canada, Aussie. My dad's girlfriend's sister live in NZ, and one day, about a month ago, it came to our attention that as we are from South Africa, we do not need a visitor's visa to go to NZ for 3 months.
That got me looking into NZ (never considered it before, don't know why), and I found out that we qualify for EOI (105 without a joboffer).
We are both 27 yo, and hubby is a project manager (on the list of OSL), with 2 years and a bit of experience (he changed degrees late into his studies), so that was not all that much. After looking into it for a while, we decided that the best route would be for him to go to NZ to search for work, and after that I will join him. I have started studying again, still have another 5 years or so to go, so we had to consider that when accepting a joboffer.
I looked into work visas, and found out that if you are on the OSL it takes about 2 weeks.
He flew to NZ on 15th September (about a month after we first thought about going to NZ), landed on the 17th. Before he went there, I checked out the ads for construction managers, and there were loads, I sent his cv to a couple of people, together with a note that he will be available for interview from the 20th. Got responses back from most of them to call as soon as he gets there.
The next week he went to the employment agencies, got an interview for the 27th of September. He went there (in Auckland West - Henderson area), and got a joboffer of NZ$62k before he went out of the door :cheers !!!!!
I will be flying there on the 29th of October, just waiting for the birth certificates and police clearance.
Hubby will apply for his work permit, and as soon as I get there with all the paperwork, we will go for the english language test, and start with the EOI (with a joboffer our points are 155, so I do not see any problems with that), and hopefully we get residence before I start to study next Feb (international fees are 4 times more than residence fees)
Now, luckily we do not own a house yet, so we do not have that much capital tied up. On the other hand, one NZ$ is about 4.5 South African Rand, so that eats up much cash.
But, all in all, we will be going there with about NZ$10k.
So, just to tell all those who are thinking about going, if you have the means at all, and the employment ads looks promising, my advise to you is to go, it might just turn out as wonderfull as our experience.
Cheers,
Lizelle (South Africa, Auckland next month :cheers )
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I have been reading through some of the post for the last week (I have been away, catching up a bit), and I would like to relate my and hubby's story to some of the doomsayers:
We have been planning to immigrate for quite some time. Have looked at UK, USA, Canada, Aussie. My dad's girlfriend's sister live in NZ, and one day, about a month ago, it came to our attention that as we are from South Africa, we do not need a visitor's visa to go to NZ for 3 months.
That got me looking into NZ (never considered it before, don't know why), and I found out that we qualify for EOI (105 without a joboffer).
We are both 27 yo, and hubby is a project manager (on the list of OSL), with 2 years and a bit of experience (he changed degrees late into his studies), so that was not all that much. After looking into it for a while, we decided that the best route would be for him to go to NZ to search for work, and after that I will join him. I have started studying again, still have another 5 years or so to go, so we had to consider that when accepting a joboffer.
I looked into work visas, and found out that if you are on the OSL it takes about 2 weeks.
He flew to NZ on 15th September (about a month after we first thought about going to NZ), landed on the 17th. Before he went there, I checked out the ads for construction managers, and there were loads, I sent his cv to a couple of people, together with a note that he will be available for interview from the 20th. Got responses back from most of them to call as soon as he gets there.
The next week he went to the employment agencies, got an interview for the 27th of September. He went there (in Auckland West - Henderson area), and got a joboffer of NZ$62k before he went out of the door :cheers !!!!!
I will be flying there on the 29th of October, just waiting for the birth certificates and police clearance.
Hubby will apply for his work permit, and as soon as I get there with all the paperwork, we will go for the english language test, and start with the EOI (with a joboffer our points are 155, so I do not see any problems with that), and hopefully we get residence before I start to study next Feb (international fees are 4 times more than residence fees)
Now, luckily we do not own a house yet, so we do not have that much capital tied up. On the other hand, one NZ$ is about 4.5 South African Rand, so that eats up much cash.
But, all in all, we will be going there with about NZ$10k.
So, just to tell all those who are thinking about going, if you have the means at all, and the employment ads looks promising, my advise to you is to go, it might just turn out as wonderfull as our experience.
Cheers,
Lizelle (South Africa, Auckland next month :cheers )
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