Boyfriend has a job offer, I don't

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My boyfriend and I have been together since March 2002. He has just been offered a job in NZ and we seriously would love to move there. I work for an International firm of accountants but there is little possibility of me being able to transfer as I am in a new role.

Can anyone suggest the best and quickest way for us to get into NZ. My boyfriend will not go without me but, timings are not great in that I am in a new role and little chance of transferring. I can look for a job from the UK but he needs to say yes to the role he has been offered, hand his notice in, in the UK etc and timings are getting tight.

Thanks

Liz

rodders · Valued Member Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 134

is marriage out of the question?

JCM · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject:

Hi Liz

,

Unless you take rodder's marriage route, or unless you can pick up a job offer for yourself very quickly, it sounds like, if you choose to come, you'll be coming on a holiday visa which can last for a year. In another thread I said:

The work permit situation in New Zealand works something like this:

Let's say you come to New Zealand on 'holiday' for a few weeks and decide you love it here. You find yourself with a job offer. If you take all of the required paperwork along to an Immigration Dept. office in the same locality as you've been offered the job, it is possible to have a work permit issued on the spot. This is most likely to happen if the offered job is on the Occupational Shortage List or Priority Occupations List.

If the offered job is not on one of these lists, your employer-to-be will almost certainly have to submit a "Labourmarket Check" to establish with the Dept. of Immigration that they have advertised the job and there is no New Zealander able to do it. If you're lucky, the employer will already have had the labourmarket check carried out. If they haven't, they have to send off paperwork to WINZ, for WINZ to carry out the check. This will take 2 -3 weeks. Your employer-to-be can then pass the labourmarket-check paperwork on to you to enable you to get a work permit.

It should be said that many smaller employers are reluctant to do the paperwork, etc, required for a labourmarket check and would much prefer to find someone that they don't need to do all this for.

N.B. If you arrive here 'on holiday' and turn up at a Dept of Immigration office within a few days with job offer and all of your paperwork filled in, they will almost certainly doubt that your true purpose in coming to NZ was a holiday. This might cause problems.

Liz, have you tried phoning the personnel departments of potential employers and asking what your prospects for employment might be in general terms if you were in New Zealand and available for face to face interview?

Clink

gordster · I'll Hang Around A Little Joined: 23 Nov 2003 Posts: 15

Come on live on the edge, quit your job and head to NZ with your boyfriend. You only live once, and NZ is one excellent country to be alive in.

Do as an earlier poster said, and either get a holiday visa, or a working holiday visa, and head on out there. There are lots of accounting jobs out there.

have a look at www.jobstuff.co.nz

good luck, and on a grey day in London, do you need any encouragement to leave?

karltsmith · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 2:18 am Post subject:

What have you got to loose? GO FOR IT.......don't look back in X years time and regret not taking this chance....the longest journey starts but with a single step....SO TAKE IT...or you WILL regret it. Use your time wisely and get some Kiwi experience...even if you had to come back temporarily you will have at the very least seen a cracking country and it might wet your appetite to stay or return. Who knows where your current relationship will end...marriage or at the airport when your other half gets on the plane......then you'll wish you'd done it! Nice One