[Brit Guy]

I would appreciate to hear from anyone who has run into problems with any particular Case Officer (UK). It seems that whatever we have provided as 'proof' isn't enought!!! :( :( :( :(

[Danpoll]

I had a few issues with providing evidence of work experience. tax slips accountants paperwork,NI. So they asked for evidence I gave it to them 2.5 kilos of paperwork. Portfolio's evrey photo of any bit of work I have ever done, drafts of the technical book I started to write, I hit em good. Then she had a go at me when I would phone by saying

"jeez I am trying to get through what you sent me"

you asked for it love.

In the end she gave me 4 years out of 10 I got my points and myvisa so thats all I care about now.

so play there little games, dance to their tune. keep your cool despite you wnat to tell them to go away rather unpolitely.

they used to publish the statistics of drop outs during the process I think out of 10000 applications that were succsesful form eOI 7000 said sod it and droped out. It is easy to see why when they play their burecratic games.

Though think of the good points,NZIS are panzies in comparison to trying to get residence in the big countries

Least the NZIS treat you like a human being.


Dan

[lindajax]

I can only comment that my case officer was marvellous to us.
We had probs with work experience and payslips sufficed in the end, she didn't seem to be too officious and was always helpful and nice when i rang or emailed her.
Incidentally she was a Kiwi - if that might have made a difference.

It just goes to show how a service can be affected by peoples personalities

Good luck any way!
Love Linda xx

[leslie]

70% drop-out/failure rate. merde. expensive. guess it would make one skeptical. wonder what drop rates are in other countries.

[Danpoll]

I think that figure was international. They used to present all this data, pie charts, bar graphs on evrey fortnight draw but then they stopped doing it.

It could be the expense of NZQA, medicals, police, that people think yah what ever. I suppose there must be a high percentage of people who pay the $100 EOI and think thats it.

I must admit the amount of times I would shout and curse the poxy little island off australia. But NZ knows I didnt mean it.

If you are a old poorly unexperienced criminal who wants to live in Auckland then the process may not be your cup of tea.

Cheers
Dan

p.s What the hell does not your cup of tea mean anyway, what a stupid phrase.

[MB]

This discussion about drop-off rates is a good time to bring up the fact -- it may not be particualrly obvious to forum members new to NZIS -- that NZIS sets a selection point knowing how many EOIs they'll harvest as a result. If that sounds like a "Duh" statement, I just mean that it's worth remembering that they don't set the selection point as a reflection of a vague estimate of the number of people they want to attract that fortnight. No. They do it 'cos they know how many they'll get and what the likely drop-off rate will be.

By the way, looking at the fortnightly sheet -- these days -- the approx. drop-off/rejection/return-to-pool rate from EOI to ITA is 20%, and then again there seems to be another 20% drop-off/rejection from ITA to Approval.
By that snapshot, the math is that every 100 EOIs will go down to 80, then those 80 will eventually drop to 64 approvals by step eight or nine in the whole process. So... a 6.4 out of 10 chance of success???

Finally, I'm gonna drag up yet again something that I haven't seen answered, which is are the many likely Tier-2 2-year-permits counted as part of the 22000 figure? Remember their decision on PR is deferred, so will they show up in the 22000 or not come June?

Cheers,
Matt.

[veronica]

I can't see that they will be able to count them as they aren't PR until it actually happens. They don't count LTBV people as PR and we are here for 3 years, then if we choose to go for the entpreneaurs visa we get PR. If they did it the other way they would count us twice!!!