This is a typical case of the old 'catch 22' that so many people encounter. Maybe your best course of action would be to go on a work permit, apply for registration when you get there and when this is all processed, apply for immigration that way. Depending on how long it takes to process registration, you may find that if you turn up on the door of an employer, they will take you on subject to registration and then, you also have ajob to gain more points!

NZIS seem to encourage the risk takers of the world by creating these trials for us. Its getting so that you most certainly HAVE to be in NZ before you can get anything done.

It's messing with peoples lives and I dont like or agree with it, but its the way they like it and, to be honest, unless you are a total plank with no chance of meeting criteria as long as there is a sun in the sky, you should be ok.

Read the article in the NZ Herald (featuring me!) and you will see that when an immigration officer was interviewed, he stated that 'They are looking for the self starter, someone who will come to NZ for a holiday and sort it all out while they are there' or words to that effect.