Ray, have you been into the
NZ Immigration Services? website? ?
If you register for online services
here , it?ll take you to pages where you can apply for your own EOI and it also mentions about extending visitors? visas although, if your wife and daughter?s visas expired in April, it could well be more complicated. ?
I can?t get into these pages myself as I don?t want to register because I?m hoping to go to NZ via a different route (Family Category) so I can?t see exactly what?s available on there. ?I believe the fee you pay for the EOI may be cheaper if you apply online and you can create your own personal file on there. ?You?ll need a credit card to pay the fee. ?If you work your way through the EOI paperwork, we?ll try to help you if you have any queries. ?Once you submit your application it will go into a pool and selections are made from this pool twice a month. ?You can stay in this pool for up to 6 months, but we?ll hope it?ll be a lot quicker in your case. ?It depends on how busy the relevant department is at the time and how quickly they want to push you through.?In your case, where time is of the essence, it might be an idea to apply for your police certificates as soon as you have the Decision Successful come up, as this is one of the things that can take time. ?
Can I ask at this point, how many points do you have without claiming points for your job? ?Progressing from a WP to PR would depend on having sufficient points without those from either a job offer or work experience in NZ.
If you apply online, you can watch the progress of your application on your personal file as it will tell you your status somewhere on your homepage. ?What you?ll be looking for is a ?Decision Successful? status. ?Once you have this NZIS should send you an ITA package to fill in and work on. ?This shouldn?t be quite so daunting as the EOI as much of it is confirming what you already did in the EOI, but this time you?ll have medicals and police certificates to sort out.
When you applied for your WP, wouldn?t it have been possible for your daughter (or you on her behalf) to apply for a
Student?s Visa ? ?That would have got her sorted, as she could have had her visa for the same length of time as your WP. ?
Most, if not all, of our members have been successful in getting to NZ by doing it themselves, so it can?t be too difficult. Take it one step at a time and, although at first it seems a mammoth task getting everything together, it can be done. Meanwhile, if the NZIS is suggesting that you extend your family?s visas, I should go ahead and do that in the hope it will give you enough time to have your application processed and approved.
Good luck with filling in your EOI. ?I?d like to think that you?ll be pleased with yourself when you find you?ve done it all yourself AND saved a lot of money in the process.