Tag NZ Immigration Services

almost

today keeps getting better. the official approval letter from nzis arrived in the post today. actually we’re not quite approved yet – we’re “approved in principal” meaning that we have “almost successfully satisfied all criteria under the Skilled Migrant Category.” so…

permanent residency granted !!!

i caved again this morning and called pascale my case officer to get an update on our application. definitely a call worth making. pascale said that a letter went out on 30-APR indicating that our residency application has been approved…

case officer approval

one more milestone down. i broke down this morning and called pascale my case officer to ask about the “change of status” email i got earlier in the week. she said that we should ignore the email and that she…

“change of status”?

ONLINE ENQUIRY CHANGE OF STATUS Your immigration application status has been updated. To View these changes please log in to Online Services this morning i got an automated email from nzis indicating that my application status had changed – but…

20 questions

24 actually. just completed my settlement interview with pascale, my case officer from nzis. it went very well. they start with a few questions to ensure you are who you say you are. might seem silly, but i expect that…

interview scheduled

i spoke briefly with pascale today and setup my interview for tomorrow morning at 0700. she seemed quite nice and flexible. very optimistic that this step will be easy.

take 3 big steps forward

well, i don’t think you could stuff more good news into a single email. today i got an email from miss pascale battrick introducing herself as my case officer (milestone #1) and indicating that “Following an initial assessment it appears…

progress?

the nzis london branch (where our application is bring processed) updates a web page from time to time to indicate where they are on the queue. several weeks ago they indicated that as of march 23rd they were allocating applications…

passports off to nzis

since the nz trip got cancelled (postponed for now i suppose) i took the opportunity to send off our passports and our migrant levy (£210) to nzis. they will affix our visas and we’ll be fully approved – done done…

what we have here is a failure to communicate

considering the very significant effort, cost and most notably time required to get us this far in the nz immigration process i found the following news report from radio new zealand particularly (humourous / frustrating / hard to believe)? Posted…