[dawnshaun]

Hello everyone, I feel a bit cheeky in making my first post here a plea for help.
Have only recently discovered this forum, and therefore registered. Have read ,many posts recently and found many useful and uplifting.
Here is the short version of my predicament.
One year ago the dream started. Registered as a midwife in NZ, completed paperwork, applied for PR under skilled Migrant, with Husband and two children. All looking good, Got a job to start in Jan 07 in Palmerston North. Sold the house and about to complete end of this month. Brought new outdoor all weather and hiking gear. looked at accomodation, flights, just waiting on PR any day now!!!!
Yesterday the bombshell. Application declined on medical grounds. :mad: BUT may be offered a medical waiver! :confused:
Can anyone help with their experiences, how much should I pin my hopes on this next step. We have lost the house, so will have to rethink life in the UK from a different angle.
All at sea at the moment, so anyones experience or advice would be of real benefit.
Dawn

[Caroline and Dave]

Hi Dawn, welcome to the forum.
Although I have not been declined yet I am going through the medical path. If you go into the nzis operations manual, go to the index and look up medical waivers it will explain the procedure, it all depends on your medical condition. It lists here conditions that are not accepted.
http://www.immigration.govt.nz/nzis/operations_manual/index.htm
As they are saying you could get a waiver your chances are pretty high. I fully expect to have to apply for a waiver.
Please let us know how you get on. I will be thinking of you . think positive all the time,it helps

Kindest regards

Dave and Caroline

[Avalon]

Dawn,

I really cant help with this at all, but i just wanted to send really big

{{{HUGS}}}

Hang in there! And keep coming back here to update. Im sure there are many people here like Dave who can offer you help and guidance, and those of us that cant will still be around to offer as much support as we can.

Hxxx

[Lupin]

I second Avalon; I really feel for you.

I understand midwives to be in short supply in NZ and perhaps that helps? Good luck for the medical waiver....keep us updated and I hope they don't keep you waiting too long.

Lupin.

[willsken]

That must have been such a blow for you. Keep on in there and we will keep everything crossed for you that it all works out OK in the end. :nice1

[SoCal Gal]

Hello DawnShaun,
I feel so bad for you, we are in basically the same situation! Here is the medical waiver stuff in a nutshell -

A4.60 Medical waivers (applicants for residence)
See A4 (before 28/11/2005)

Applicants for residence in New Zealand who are assessed as not having an acceptable standard of health and whose applications meet all other requirements for approval under the relevant Government residence policy may be considered for the grant of a medical waiver unless:
they require dialysis treatment, or an Immigration New Zealand medical assessor has indicated that they will require such treatment within a period of four years from the date of the medical assessment; or
they have active pulmonary tuberculosis; or
they have severe haemophilia; or
they have a physical incapacity that requires full time care.
Medical waivers will also not be granted to people:
who are applying for residence under Family category policy; and
who were eligible to be included in an earlier application for residence as the spouse or partner of a principal applicant or the dependent child of a principal applicant or their spouse or partner; and
were not declared on that earlier application.
People who:
were eligible to be included in an earlier successful application for residence as the spouse or partner of a principal applicant or the dependent child of a principal applicant or their spouse or partner; and
who were declared in that application but were not included in that application as non-principal applicants; and
whose application for residence under Family category policy is sponsored by a person included in the application for residence referred to in (i) above
will be assessed for the grant of a medical waiver as if they had been included in the earlier application and as if the sponsor was not resident in New Zealand.

Applicants (and dependants included in their application) who have been recognised as refugees may be granted medical waivers

Read it carefully, see if it is applicable, and for goodness sake, don't give up!
All the best,
SoCal Gal

[dawnshaun]

Thank you all for your replies and good wishes.
There is light at the end of the tunnel and we will pin our hopes on the waiver, just waiting to get advice from CO.
Once again thank you.
Dawn and Shaun

[Neeps]

We were told that we had a better than average chance of getting a Medical Waiver. But, bad new today, that too was rejected.

It's not the rejection I'm disappointed with, It's the constant reassurance by NZIS that we would get the Waiver.

Hope thing work out for you.

[jess]

Neeps, I'm sorry to hear about your bad news. I don't know much about waivers, but there is this thread (http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5793) which deals with appealing a denial of waiver. It refers to the Residence Review Board, which is online here (http://www.residencereviewboard.govt.nz/Pages/RES_FAQ.aspx).

[dawnshaun]

:(
Hello neeps,
sorry to hear your news, as you may have read we are in the same boat.
I agree there is a positve feel in the offer of a waiver, and when your down from the initial 'No', you grab on to any hope. We are deciding wether to get a second opinion, or just go ahead with the waiver.
I would be interested to know how you pitched your letter and response in support of the waiver, would you PM me so we can swap ideas and moans?
Also the time delay these things cause.
Once again I feel for you and your family, and understand if you just wish to bow out and not respond.
All my thoughts
Dawn

[dawnshaun]

:raebanana
Hello everyone,
As some of you may recall, I posted before christmas in the depths of despair.
But now I post one week away from the shippers coming, and nursing a headache from yesterdays leaving party!!!
Yes you got it we were granted our medical waiver.
Apologies for not catching up with you all, but have been manic in getting whole thing sorted in three weeks, boy I need a 26 hr flight just to slow down.
We move to Palmerston North the second week of Feb, so anyone nearby, we would love to make contact and introduce ourselves in the flesh!! Not literally of course. :p

[jess]

:raebanana :raebanana

What a great turn of events for you! Glad it has worked out.

[saabmania2]

hooooray :raebanana you deserve it well done and keep us posted as to how you get on in the future :nice1

[Mexican in NZ]

Great news!!! Keep us posted of how u do when u arrive, ok??
Greetings to the family,
Adriana and Anton

[Caroline and Dave]

Thats great news. I am so pleased for you. Still waiting to hear about mine,but no news is good news as they say

Anyway We wish you and your family all the success in NZ

Kind regards

Dave and Caroline

[Smiler]

Hello everyone,
As some of you may recall, I posted before christmas in the depths of despair.
But now I post one week away from the shippers coming, and nursing a headache from yesterdays leaving party!!!
Yes you got it we were granted our medical waiver.
Apologies for not catching up with you all, but have been manic in getting whole thing sorted in three weeks, boy I need a 26 hr flight just to slow down.
We move to Palmerston North the second week of Feb, so anyone nearby, we would love to make contact and introduce ourselves in the flesh!! Not literally of course.

Well Done! :clap:clap

Enjoy the last few weeks and relax on the flight. I'm about an hour away from PN, west of Wanganui. I can always do coffee, so yell when you're free. :)

[Frodomurphy]

Hi there, was wondering if someone could give us some advice. My husband and I are in the process of emigrating to NZ. Everything has gone through okay, only on Friday, we received an e-mail saying that becaus of my Husband's Psoriatic Arthritis, and that it's going to cost in excess of $25K per year to look after him, they are going to decline our application - our only option is to now apply for a medical waiver. A bit of history on us, my husband is a time-served Pipe fitter/Fabricator, with over 20 years experience and we are applying under the skilled migrant category, my entire family, Mum, Dad and two sisters and their families (both married and one has three girls) live in Christchurch. After 8 years of trying to get pregnant, we have just found out I am expecting a baby in September - we think that once we had decided to move to NZ, it just happened, after years of trying. Do you thinkwe have a better chance because I have my entire immediate family in Christchurch, NZ and that I am pregnant with my first child? What do we put in our letter to them requesting a medical waiver - we are desperate to move out there and I don't think I could cope if they turned around and told us we couldn't go - I really want to be near my family, especially now that I'm having a baby. Any advice would be welcomed - many thanks! Frodox

[Juniper]

Hi there Frodomurphy!

Wow what a fantastic life change, after 8 years! BIG congratulations!

NZIS will definitely approve of the fact that you have a lot of family already living in NZ :-) I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes, but it -does- make a difference, because they know you will have a support system, and a big reason to make your move to NZ work in the long term.

Best of luck!