WTR or Skilled Migrant

Fergus · Testing The Water Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

I'm confused.

Can anyone out there help? My job (pathologist) is on the POL but I require registration in New Zealand before I can start work. I don't think that I can be fully registered until I arrive in New Zealand and undergo an interview. Does that mean that I can't claim for points for Skilled Employment on the EOI? I filled out an EOI application online and stated that my registration application was in progress. This appeared to give me 180 points, as opposed to 125 without registration. My fear is the they won't accept "application in progress" and my total points will be reduced. Should I therefore apply for a WTR visa rather than a Skilled Migrant visa. From what I can make out from the immigration website, this appears to entail applying for a WTR visa for myself, a visitors visa for my wife and two student visas for my children. Then when in New Zealand and fully registered, I go through the EOI process to eventually get the Skilled Migrant visa. This seems unnecessarily complicated with various fees being required along the way. Is this really the only way to do it? Seems like a bit of a money spinner for the NZ Immigration Service! Hmmm

karltsmith · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

It's all a bit confusing I know! You can't claim points for in progress registration! You can claim points for a job offer. From what you have said it is not clear if you have a job offer in place and any offer would then require your registration as a condition of the offer of employment. If you have a job offer you're OK to claim the points. You are best talking to NZIS directly because this seems to be yet another of the "chicken and egg" situations created by and overcomplicated and confusing system!

Hope this helps Hmmm

....probably not Embarassed

Fergus · Testing The Water Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

Thanks for the reply. Nice One

Yes, I do have an offer of a job. Do you think that means that I can claim for the points related to registration? I've tried to e-mail NZIS but there's been no reply. I'll have to phone instead.

Jenkins · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

How would you know if the qualification requires registration? My husband is a mechanical engineer. He already has a certificate from NZQA. Is that as good as being registered?

Jenkins · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject:

PS:
Correct me if I'm wrong, NZQA tells you if a registration is required for your profession. In our case, no such recommendation was noted in our NZQA certs.

karltsmith · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject:

Hi Fergus,

You need to check if your qualifications are on the approved list if so no NZQA required if not you need to get NZQA to verify your quals/and or in addition in your case seek to get a provisional regisitration in place, your employer should be able to help you with this, get a certified copy to lodge with your application then you can ge full registration once here. I'm not in the medical profession myself however I'm sure your employer with point you in the right direction.

Read pages 314 to 316 of the residence manual available as a pdf file from the following link.

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/B9297CAD-5D25-43BE-AFBC-FACA87C79884/0/Residence.pdf

Cheers

Karl Nice One