9 Comments on Get Permanent Residency in New Zealand ASAP.

Domestic Executive on Fri, 10th Jul 2009 1:12 pm


We came to New Zealand on the work to Residence scheme and it was such a relief when we finally got residency. Fortuantly my husbands job has been pretty secure but I can’t imagine what it might have been like had this happened to us. It’s tough but you are right you need to know the risks and understand the consequences.

Avalon on Fri, 10th Jul 2009 3:05 pm


I am so glad you did that We are still hearing stories of people who are being advised not to get PR for whatever reason (sometimes by Licenced agents) and it is just the wrong information.

One guy has been told if he cant get references from all his past employers – he wont get PR, so he didnt apply beucase the companies have gone bust. No one thought to mention till now that Pay Slips will do the trick.

It does make my blood boil that Immigration agents are still trying to get Work Visas renewed for people who already have the points to be able to get Residence. How are they allowed to get away with it?

MANISH SETHI on Thu, 24th Sep 2009 6:43 am


I LIVE IN INDIA AND I HAVE COMPLETED MY BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ECONOMICS WITH 66% MARKS AND I AM APPLYING FOR GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMMERCE IN NEW ZEALAND FROM UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND AND I WANT PERSUE MY CAREER IN NEW ZEALAND.
WILL IT POSSILE THAT I CAN GET PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN NEW ZEALAND. AFTER SUCH COURSE ??????

Avalon on Thu, 24th Sep 2009 8:12 am


Well done – unfortunately it is illegal for me to answer your question – if you look at the lastest blog entries you will see that no one in New Zealand is allowed to comment on these things any more unless they are licenced to by the Immigration Advisors Authority – and there is no way for people who do not charge migrants extortianate fees to act as agents to get licenced.

Welcome to New Zealand!

SyBorgg on Thu, 24th Sep 2009 9:53 pm


And here I was thinking I was alone and going out of my mind when dealing with NZIS. My Work and Residency applications were so smooth and without hitch. 5 Years later I convinced my mother to leave crime riddled South Africa and join us in wonderful New Zealand (with me being her sponsor). It has been 10 months now and we get pushed from pillar to post. and have not, to date, even been assigned a case officer. Every contact made is met with determined and dogged resistance to even the simple queries i.e. Can some one tell us more or less when we will be assigned a case officer? We just want someone that we can ask our rising number of questions to.
Just like the responses in your blog ” …we’re not high priority…” & “…contacting us will only result in delays in processing….” & “…a Case Officer will be assigned to you in due course…” Every phone call ends up with different answers, letters remain unuacknowledged and questions by e-mail are never answered properly.
I am on the verge of visiting my local MP but now I am starting to wonder if it would do any good either.
What was once a wonderful prospect of an aging widowed lady retiring peacefully in the same beautiful country as her 2 children and 4 grandchildren, has started to frazzle the nerves and stress relationships in a nightmare of an uncertain future.

Michelle on Fri, 29th Jan 2010 6:07 pm


Thanks for this info. We are here on the work to residency scheme – but my husband was offered the job before we came. It is scary to think what would happen if he lost his job! I am trying to get my current visitors visa changed to a work permit so I can work as we cant apply for the residency until we have been here two years. There are so many hoops to jump through and so much information you have to give them repeatedly, even though they already have it. You would think they would help me to work as I am apprently skilled in an area they have a large shortage in.
Thanks again for all the useful links and information – even if some of it is a bit scary and reminds me of the risk we took in moving out here.

Avalon on Fri, 29th Jan 2010 6:51 pm


Michelle -

Good Luck! I wish there something more useful I could say!

Im finding more and more that I feel awful about the risk so many people are under. If there hadnt been a recession – everything would have worked like clockwork – but the rules changed practically overnight. INZ changed what they were doing, and just havent given people a chance to work through issues caused by the financial fallout.

Just a thought (and I dont know the answer to this as I have very little experinece with WTR) – but shouldnt you have automattically got a work permit as the wife of someone on a WTR Visa???

Hugs

Helen

Maria on Sat, 30th Jan 2010 10:10 pm


And may I add: Get citizenship by April 2010 if you still fall under the three-year regulation. Otherwise you need to wait out the current five-year waiting period.
Here is the original copy from the Department of Internal Affairs website:

Citizenship Requirements Change in April 2010

The requirements for obtaining New Zealand citizenship by grant change on 21 April 2010, and it is important that people who might be affected lodge their applications before they miss out.

At the moment, if you received permanent residence or had a successful application accepted by Immigration New Zealand before 21 April 2005, you could be eligible for a grant of citizenship after living in New Zealand for three years.

If you applied for and received permanent residence on or after 21 April 2005, you have to be resident in New Zealand for five years before becoming eligible for a grant of citizenship.

However, from 21 April 2010, everyone will have to be resident for five years before becoming eligible for a grant of citizenship, no matter when they applied for and obtained permanent residence.

That means that if you meet the three-year requirement and don’t lodge an application before 21 April 2010, you will not be eligible until you have lived in New Zealand for five years, not three years.

You can check whether you are eligible for citizenship by using the Citizenship Online Calculation Tool. Alternatively you can contact us for further information.

Source: http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Citizenship-General-Requirements-for-a-Grant-of-New-Zealand-Citizenship?OpenDocument#fifteen

Hubby on Sun, 31st Jan 2010 5:20 pm


Hi Maria
Hmm – I see what DIA are saying, and I think for most people this wont matter..
If you arrived on 22nd April 2005, then your five year wait out period will be over by 22nd April this year.
If you arrived before 21st April and have been here ever since, then you’ve done more than five years. Rule change means no change to applying for Citizenship.

There may be people who arrived before 21st April 2005 who have not applied for Citizenship yet and already left the country, hence they’ve not done either three or five years possibly.. So those people will be caught out, however as long as they have done their two years to get IRRV, they can at least return and ’serve out their time’.

It’ll be interesting the number of people who get a rude surprise on an RRV who find it has run out while they were out of the country.

I suspect for anyone whom getting Citizenship was important, will have already done so. We know some folks who’ve been here 10+ years and not got citizenship for different reasons..

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