Links

General Budgeting

A collection of links about general budgeting, money saving and making sure you have more money than month.

Money Saving Expert
Home of a pretty spectacular array of money saving tools and forums.

Compound Interest Calculator
Just in case you ever want to see how compound interest really does make your savings grow.

Mortgage Calculator
Use the “Fine Tune Your Loan” calculator for comparing different loans.

Debt Free, Ca$hed Up and Laughing
For money saving tips.

Sorted
A sort of one-stop-shop for all things money in New Zealand (and hosted by a cute mouse!)

Interest Rates
This website carries the latest interest rates in New Zealand, both for savings and borrowing.

The Inland Revenue
For all your tax questions and calculators. The site is getting more and more complicated as time goes on – but it’s still a good place to look.

Really Useful Immigration Links

These are the websites that I refer to throughout the blog, and found the most useful while trying to get through our own immigration nightmare.

The Immigration New Zealand Complaints Process!!!

So that never again will people be left in our situation not knowing that they are supposed to follow this process.

The Auditor General Reports into serious issues and problems at Immigration New Zealand.

Part 1

Part 2

The Immigration New Zealand Operations Manual

Invaluable (if highly boring and tedious) for people having issues with INZ and needing to check their facts.

The Residence Review Board and the Immigration and Protection Tribunal

An amazing look at which INZ decisions get overturned and why. A must-see website if you are thinking you may have to challenge a declined residence visa.  Note: The RRB was ONLY for Permanent residence applications – NOT for temporary visas like Work Visas. The IPT replaces the RRB from November 2010 and covers residency appeals as well as deportation and refugee issues. It still does not look at temporary visas.

Ryken Law

Immigration Lawyers with some really useful information here for people having problems with INZ.