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[Kiwibound]

I saw a few posts asking about how much time to allow for immigration, so I thought I'd summarize my experience.

I submitted an online EOI for permanent residency on the 25th of Jan 04. My application was selected 26th of May when the threshold was 160 points, and I have just seen online (26 June) that my EOI has been successful :D and I will be getting an invitation to apply for permanent residency. So if my experience is typical, it looks as though if your points level is above the threshold there isn't much of a delay. Of course it may take longer for residency to be approved, but the guide to applications does say it is 'a short application form' (can anyone confirm that?)

Because my job starts in July, while we were all watching the thresholds inching painfully down, and I thought my three months in the pool were going to expire before I got anywhere near the threshold, I applied separately for a work visa (at the embassy in Berlin), which was ready in just over 2 weeks, although they said to allow five. I think you do need a job offer but getting a work visa does seem a much faster way of getting to NZ than getting a degree! Permanent residency isn't the only way, and some of the longterm work visas are 'work-to-residence'.

Hope this is cheerful news.

Another good source of advice online is a Yahoo mailing list called AustraliaNZMigrate:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AustraliaNZMigrate/

A lot of the discussion is based on Aus, but there are plenty of people well advanced with migrating to NZ as well.

(Oh, and x pom - why don't you go back to the UK if NZ is so awful? It's people like you who get the rest of us bad reputations as 'whingeing Poms'. Christ, if getting BBC news mattered we'd all stay in the UK)

[ben]

Hi,

sch?n was du da erz?hlst ich habe 210 pt bekommen und mu?te 3 Monate warten zum Schlu? ging es nur mit Hilfe eines MP'S. Ich habe keine Ahnung was das NZIS solange gebraucht hat - Sie haben nicht einmal zugriff auf meine Daten in London oder Palmerston North ?!?! Zudem haben Sie mir noch einen neune Namen gegeben - Brain soll ich jetzt heisen. Ich m?chte nicht wissen was ich noch alles machen soll :-(

Ach ja versuch mal eine verbindliche Antwort zuerhalten oder Ansprechpartner mit Namen ??

Cheers
B

This is what Ben is saying, converted by Babel Fish!

[b:79b925d212]beautifully which you tell there I have 210 pt to get and 3 months in the end went it had to wait only with the help of a MP'S. I do not have notion which the NZIS so long used - you do not even have accessed my data in London or Palmerston North?!?! Besides you gave me still another neune name - Brain is to now heisen I. I would not like to know which I still everything to make am: - (

Oh attempt times an obligatory answer zuerhalten or partners with names?? [/b:79b925d212]


So there you go :) If anyone can reply in German, feel free!

[Kiwibound]

If Ben has 210 points he's no doubt able to translate it himself (i.e. must have got points for English), but for what it?s worth here?s my version:

[quote:25312bd1ac]Good for you but I had 210 points and still had to wait 3 months and even then only got anywhere when an MP helped. I have no idea why it took NZIS so long - neither London nor Palmerston North dealt with my files properly.

What?s more they gave me a new name - now I?m supposed to be called 'Brain'. I don't even want to know what else I'll have to do.

Oh yes - and just try getting a binding answer, or the name of the person you?re dealing with.
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Translating's the easy bit (although the sentence about London and Palmerston North could well mean something else entirely :-) ). Explaining why someone with 210 points had such problems is the tricky bit. Ben ? when did you apply? Can we hope these were teething troubles with the new system? Again I?ve had better luck ? I emailed the person in London dealing with my invitation to apply and had an answer within 90 minutes.

Well, it was translated by a website! I dont speak a word of German (except the obligatory questionable phrases!), so that was my best offering! Thanks for the translation though, and I would imagine that Bens problem was not speaking good English, unless the German was just showing off? What do you say Ben?