[MotherBear]

The immigration process is extremely complex in that different people enter it in different ways due to their circumstances and different situations arise during that process that can send them off in a different direction. It would be wonderful for someone to set it all out in a simple and easily understood layout, but I?m not sure how possible this is. There?s been many a time when I?ve started to answer someone?s question on the forum and found myself sinking deeper and deeper into the mire as other thoughts occur to me that ought to be included. There are so many ?if?s, ?but?s and ?maybe?s that it?s easy to get lost amongst all the information.

As I?m hoping to immigrate via a not so frequently used route (Family Sponsorship), I?m not up to speed with all the other routes but, if this is something you really want to have a go at, maybe there are some other links to sites (if they exist) that might provide information or explain matters in another way, so that things are more clearly understood. Of course, the NZIS site is the Bible of the immigration process, but there could be a couple of other places where information may be offered in a simpler form.

When looking for information on the forum, the search facility is quite good for picking up related topics. I get the impression that not many people use the search facility because, as you say, the same questions are often asked over again. Hunting through the various threads and posts can be quite frustrating as there are so many. Because of this, I try to add any new posts to older but still relevant post so that there is some continuity and all the information is then in one place, but not many people do this and we end up with a lot of separate and quite brief threads that are about the same topic. Perhaps it?s not the done thing and I?ve got it wrong, but it makes sense to me, as you can run through the whole set of posts without having to dizzyingly (? a new word [smiley=icon_mrgreen.gif] )hop in and out of different threads.