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.
Getting to New Zealand
Moving your Money
www.hifx.co.nz or www.hifx.co.uk
Remember you need separate accounts for each country that you live in!
Plus they have a handy Currency Converter 
Currency Online.
They have now removed thier silly charges, but the rates still are not as good as HiFX.
Lambton Property.
To find a good rental property in Wellington
Lambton Property also has a selection of rooms to rent for people who don’t want to rent out a whole house. Plus if you ever decide to get into buying rentals – this is the guy you want arranging them for you.
Pension Transfers @ Lyfords
www.uk-pension-transfer.co.nz
Talk to Alison about moving yoru pensions. She is really very friendly, and very good at explaining what your options are.
Crown Relocations
We used Crown for our shipping and had a very good service from them. They do not add large extra fees.
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.
The Immigration New Zealand Operations Manual
Invaluable (if highly boring and tedious) for people having issues with INZ and needing to check their facts.
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: This is ONLY for Permanent residence applications – it is NOT for temporary visas like Work Visas.
Immigration Lawyers with some really useful information here for people having problems with INZ.
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