Category nzblog

five boxes ticked, $28.33 spent

saturday morning went on a road trip with the jboss to one of the few notary public’s who has weekend hours so we could get certified copies of our passpost and diplomas. this lets us check off 5 items on…

decision successful !!!

woohoo! i checked the nzis site for the bazillionth time this morning and whadya know – our eoi was officially approved (“decision successful”) and we can now expect and ita (invitation to apply) in a few days. amazing timing since…

well, doh

the 25th (the latest in a series of missed targets) has come and gone and no word from nzis. it will be 3 months in 1 week. if we don’t hear anything i’ll give nzis a call – although i…

pinkpiggy is in

so i have officially started the 2 week countdown. high cranky potential if we don’t hear by the 25th.

makin’ the copies

might as well get some stuff done while we wait for the ita. we’ll need to send in passports, birth and marriage certificates, university transcripts and diplomas. everything you submit needs to be an original or a “certified copy” so…

would you let this guy in?

i don’t think so. each part of the nzis submission (application, medical, xrays, blood work) has to have a passport sized photo attached to ensure that everything is on the up and up. so off i go to cvs to…

so much for 3 weeks

ah – my childhood innocence. after 2 weeks i was sure it would just be another week before we heard. well – we’ve now crossed the 2 month point and no word. i mentioned before that there is a great…

book’em danno

as part of our application we need to submit evidence of our clean criminal record. for us applicants that means our fbi “rap sheet.” to get your record you send in $18 and your fingerprints. the fbi site says we…

no, i’m still here…

nothing yet from nzis. 17 days not that i’m keeping track. i’m guessing we will hear something next week. 3 weeks seems to be about average.