day 200
today marks the 200th day since we made the decision to attempt to immigrate. hopefully the hard work is behind us. selling two houses and moving a dog and our favourite stuff almost 10,000 miles should be easy, right? the…
elvis has left the building
just dropped off the application at fedex – what a relief. 194 days after we started we finally have the application off to NZIS for review. updated timeline:start: 14-JUL-06, day 1EOI submitted: 31-JUL-06, day 17EOI selected: 02-AUG-06, day 19EOI approved…
good things doctors aren’t responsible for anything important – like your health
yesterday as i am assembling the application i notice that jackie’s doctor has not provided the lab results for her hiv or hepatitis b tests and has not signed any of the other labs. well, doh. strike one for not…
common sense prevails
2 major stress points resolved. firstly i mentioned earlier that we had read on the nzis site that they were not requiring full nzqa assessments as part of the application – and our dilemma since we didn’t have one and…
take back
many posting ago i was giving the boston university regiistrar a hard time. well, it’s now time to take it all back. just in case we need to go through the nzqa process i’ve been starting to assemble everything required.…
no really, you’re just kidding, right?
after the getting the fbi reports on tuesday i started the final pass assembling our application. i was curious about the latest estimate for processing the application so i went to the london office section of nzis site. then i…
we’re clean
huge milestone today – the fbi reports arrived just arrived as we should now have everything we need to complete our application. woo hoo the jboss is on the road this week, so if all goes well we’ll double check…
back on track
just got a nice email from the fbi director saying they would expedite our request – getting us results within 2 weeks. that would be 16 weeks, but hey i’m not complaining – that will meet our deadline. 16 weeks…
14 weeks + 4 days = 19 weeks
so when i last spoke to the fbi in mid december they said it was taking 14 weeks (instead of the advertised 8 to 10) to process requests. today is 14 weeks and nuttin’ in the mailbox, so i called…
welcome to our new readers (aka the cat’s out of the bag)
over the holidays we shared our plans with our families. hello families. reactions were exactly as expected. how’s that for sinisterly vague?… since the application process is so long and approval by no means assured our plan was to keep…
emc hr comes through
after getting the bad new from tracy i called emc hr earlier in the week and left a message asking about my work history letter request. i was not very optimistic since the vmail greeting basically said “i’m in non…
checking out potential new neighborhoods
we asked the international space station crew to make a pass over nz so we could get a better view. they were willing to help us out. you can see the top of the south island and the bottom of…
bad kharma
part of our application is to provide evidence of my work history including job titles. i joined epoch in 1990, it was acquired by emc in 1994 and i left in 1996. i was definitely not looking forward to cold…
we’re officially in line
called the fbi again today and the good news is that can now confirm that they received our request on 02-OCT. they confirmed that requests are taking 14 weeks so that would put us at 08-JAN. if they hit that…
total darkness
the fbi website said that it would take 8 to 10 weeks to process criminal record requests. today is the 9 week mark so i decided to give them a call and see where we were. the website doesn’t have…