Category nzblog

interview scheduled

i spoke briefly with pascale today and setup my interview for tomorrow morning at 0700. she seemed quite nice and flexible. very optimistic that this step will be easy.

take 3 big steps forward

well, i don’t think you could stuff more good news into a single email. today i got an email from miss pascale battrick introducing herself as my case officer (milestone #1) and indicating that “Following an initial assessment it appears…

progress?

the nzis london branch (where our application is bring processed) updates a web page from time to time to indicate where they are on the queue. several weeks ago they indicated that as of march 23rd they were allocating applications…

hey!, what about me?

last night larry forwared me an email he received from nzis describing a new program they have set up – the “ICT Skilled Migrant and Employer Link“. the summary is that they are working to connect skilled migrant applicants w/o…

will work for immigration authorisation

one month update on the nz job search. larry is doing a great job representing me to the nz market. as expected trying to pitch someone who currently doesn’t have residency, would not be able to start for many weeks…

a new hdtv

no – we didn’t get an htdv. we’re still hanging on to our 11 year old sony that won’t seem to die. but we could have a nice shinny new hdtv with the money we have spent on the immigration…

passports off to nzis

since the nz trip got cancelled (postponed for now i suppose) i took the opportunity to send off our passports and our migrant levy (£210) to nzis. they will affix our visas and we’ll be fully approved – done done…

canis familiaris

probably should have been no surprise, but the process of getting gromit into nz is almost as complicated as it is for us. nz biosecurity and nz maf (ministry of agriculture and forestry) are responsible for regulating the process. the…

what we have here is a failure to communicate

considering the very significant effort, cost and most notably time required to get us this far in the nz immigration process i found the following news report from radio new zealand particularly (humourous / frustrating / hard to believe)? Posted…