It is mentally draining now. Split families should be priority after being patient for more then 20 months now. We are humans we have feelings.. even animals have feelings and they feel the pain of separation from their families.. this government has treated us worst then animals. We will never forget the pain we have gone through and with every split families crying everyday.. karma would show its face to all those responsible for our separations… if I would had know this would stress so far we would had left long back.. now we are at a point where we can’t even think of going back nor can be live here.. for god sake reunite families show actual kindness.. Hon Kris Faafoi MP Jacinda Ardern and thank you Ricardo Menéndez March MP and Erica Stanford MP for constantly fighting for us. Please reunite all split families on urgent basis. Introduce a home isolation program for all split families and process their visa in days not even weeks.. we have suffered enough.. our families are not virus.. and they love us and they will not want their own families to be in danger keeping nz safe automatically.. stop this mental harassment please 🙏🏻 I arrived nz just before lockdown and my husband has been locked out of since then.. separated since 20 months now
I am currently awaiting a complaint investigation regarding my wife's visa refusal by INZ. I have seen the client notes and sent a nearly 4000 word complaint letter. Pending their decision I will also raise it up to the ombudsman and higher up and up to God. It is beyond cruel and evil hearted to keep me and others separated from our families on bogus and random wrongful and unjust decisions.
I have a question, do you know why INZ is not processing ESWV according to the lodgement date? Oldest applications can date back to 4 months ago. I know if a case is too complex then it gets delayed, but not a whole bunch. Thanks
I am eligible for One off resident visa on March 1 2022. But I am eligible to apply for RFW on Priority queue on January 2022. Which one is better to to apply to get faster?
Hmm, that's a tricky one but I would say the priority queue with RFW might be quicker actually. I've had applications on priority completed in 2-3 months. But don't hold me to it! 😂 Who knows INZ might fall apart when they get the 100k+ applications rolling in...
My experience about 2021 one-off resident visa policy. We are a family of a PhD student (myself), a partner of a student work visa holder (my wife) and a kid under 3 (my daughter). We are looking forward to residing in New Zealand since we came here in 2018. We are trying our best to secure more points in the EOI scheme. Thus, we work and study hard. There was a chance that my wife was offered an essential skills work visa early this year to replace her partner of a student work visa. However, we refused the opportunity as we thought it's better to remain on the current partner of a student work visa. As a partner of a student work visa is an open work visa, which does not have conditions limiting the employer and the occupation. Open work visas have advantages over essential skills work visas, including the possibility of working for another employer and/or occupation to improve our points in the EOI scheme. And people with a partner work visa is not included in the problematic 2021 one-off resident visa eligibility. We are really heartbroken and disappointed. The whole thing is like that we are getting punished for trying to improve our EOI points. Based on the announcement from Immigration New Zealand, the aim of the immigration policy is "to provide certainty to the majority of migrant workers and businesses, reflecting the migrants’ critical part in New Zealand’s economy." I felt like our family was considered as a minority of migrant workers. This is absolutely unacceptable discrimination. My family is working both remotely and on site during the pandemic. During pandemic, I host lab sessions physically and remotely, to answer students' questions about 2 courses as a graduate teaching assistant for the University of Auckland, as well as continue working on my researching at the same time. I managed to publish an article on a top academic journal in the name of the University of Auckland, moreover in the name of New Zealand. The publication will show the academic impact from the University of Auckland and New Zealand. Potentially, this publication will improve the rankings of New Zealand universities and the New Zealand education system as well. This will make New Zealand a more attractive destination for education around the world. In addition, my PhD was fully funded by Health Research Council of New Zealand, which is a part of New Zealand government. In other words, New Zealand government invested more than $250,000 in my education. And I am going to leave New Zealand after my coming graduation if there is no change to this problematic one-off resident visa policy. I believe many other PhDs will do the same, as we feel that we are not needed by New Zealand. I think this might be a massive loss for the country. At the same time, my wife is busy designing marketing material on site or remotely during lockdowns. Especially during lockdowns, from time to time, she has to risk her health to go on site to do the printing jobs physically and ship these printings and products to all the distributors throughout New Zealand, as she is working in an essential industry. I think we have played our important roles to contribute to New Zealand's economy. My first question here is that how cannot the policy see the contribution from PhD students, as we are not learning like students, we are actually working as researchers and teaching assistants? Is this a signal that we are not welcomed here, since we are treated unfairly? The second question is that why the immigration system is so broken? A partner work visa is better than an essential work visa in every aspect, including not limiting employer, not limiting occupation, and of a longer duration. It is reasonable to prefer a partner work visa over an essential work visa. Then, why my family was punished by making this reasonable choice, which I think everyone will make under the same situation?
Hi Henry, yes that's exactly my point as well. Some people choose to stay on partnership-based work visas because then there is a better chance of securing employment since employers don't want to wait until an essential skills work visa is approved. As for your questions, I think they are short-sighted to have excluded these groups of people. Hopefully, they will have heard the voices and will make those adjustments.
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It is mentally draining now. Split families should be priority after being patient for more then 20 months now. We are humans we have feelings.. even animals have feelings and they feel the pain of separation from their families.. this government has treated us worst then animals. We will never forget the pain we have gone through and with every split families crying everyday.. karma would show its face to all those responsible for our separations… if I would had know this would stress so far we would had left long back.. now we are at a point where we can’t even think of going back nor can be live here.. for god sake reunite families show actual kindness..
Hon Kris Faafoi MP Jacinda Ardern and thank you Ricardo Menéndez March MP and Erica Stanford MP for constantly fighting for us. Please reunite all split families on urgent basis. Introduce a home isolation program for all split families and process their visa in days not even weeks.. we have suffered enough.. our families are not virus.. and they love us and they will not want their own families to be in danger keeping nz safe automatically.. stop this mental harassment please 🙏🏻
I arrived nz just before lockdown and my husband has been locked out of since then.. separated since 20 months now
😥😥😥 stay strong and hang in there it will be worth it
I am currently awaiting a complaint investigation regarding my wife's visa refusal by INZ. I have seen the client notes and sent a nearly 4000 word complaint letter. Pending their decision I will also raise it up to the ombudsman and higher up and up to God. It is beyond cruel and evil hearted to keep me and others separated from our families on bogus and random wrongful and unjust decisions.
I have a question, do you know why INZ is not processing ESWV according to the lodgement date? Oldest applications can date back to 4 months ago.
I know if a case is too complex then it gets delayed, but not a whole bunch. Thanks
In my experience, applications get dished out to branches and the timelines seem to vary depending on where your application ends up in.
I am eligible for One off resident visa on March 1 2022. But I am eligible to apply for RFW on Priority queue on January 2022. Which one is better to to apply to get faster?
Hmm, that's a tricky one but I would say the priority queue with RFW might be quicker actually. I've had applications on priority completed in 2-3 months. But don't hold me to it! 😂 Who knows INZ might fall apart when they get the 100k+ applications rolling in...
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My experience about 2021 one-off resident visa policy. We are a family of a PhD student (myself), a partner of a student work visa holder (my wife) and a kid under 3 (my daughter). We are looking forward to residing in New Zealand since we came here in 2018. We are trying our best to secure more points in the EOI scheme. Thus, we work and study hard. There was a chance that my wife was offered an essential skills work visa early this year to replace her partner of a student work visa. However, we refused the opportunity as we thought it's better to remain on the current partner of a student work visa. As a partner of a student work visa is an open work visa, which does not have conditions limiting the employer and the occupation. Open work visas have advantages over essential skills work visas, including the possibility of working for another employer and/or occupation to improve our points in the EOI scheme. And people with a partner work visa is not included in the problematic 2021 one-off resident visa eligibility. We are really heartbroken and disappointed. The whole thing is like that we are getting punished for trying to improve our EOI points. Based on the announcement from Immigration New Zealand, the aim of the immigration policy is "to provide certainty to the majority of migrant workers and businesses, reflecting the migrants’ critical part in New Zealand’s economy." I felt like our family was considered as a minority of migrant workers. This is absolutely unacceptable discrimination.
My family is working both remotely and on site during the pandemic. During pandemic, I host lab sessions physically and remotely, to answer students' questions about 2 courses as a graduate teaching assistant for the University of Auckland, as well as continue working on my researching at the same time. I managed to publish an article on a top academic journal in the name of the University of Auckland, moreover in the name of New Zealand. The publication will show the academic impact from the University of Auckland and New Zealand. Potentially, this publication will improve the rankings of New Zealand universities and the New Zealand education system as well. This will make New Zealand a more attractive destination for education around the world.
In addition, my PhD was fully funded by Health Research Council of New Zealand, which is a part of New Zealand government. In other words, New Zealand government invested more than $250,000 in my education. And I am going to leave New Zealand after my coming graduation if there is no change to this problematic one-off resident visa policy. I believe many other PhDs will do the same, as we feel that we are not needed by New Zealand. I think this might be a massive loss for the country.
At the same time, my wife is busy designing marketing material on site or remotely during lockdowns. Especially during lockdowns, from time to time, she has to risk her health to go on site to do the printing jobs physically and ship these printings and products to all the distributors throughout New Zealand, as she is working in an essential industry. I think we have played our important roles to contribute to New Zealand's economy.
My first question here is that how cannot the policy see the contribution from PhD students, as we are not learning like students, we are actually working as researchers and teaching assistants? Is this a signal that we are not welcomed here, since we are treated unfairly?
The second question is that why the immigration system is so broken? A partner work visa is better than an essential work visa in every aspect, including not limiting employer, not limiting occupation, and of a longer duration. It is reasonable to prefer a partner work visa over an essential work visa. Then, why my family was punished by making this reasonable choice, which I think everyone will make under the same situation?
Hi Henry, yes that's exactly my point as well. Some people choose to stay on partnership-based work visas because then there is a better chance of securing employment since employers don't want to wait until an essential skills work visa is approved. As for your questions, I think they are short-sighted to have excluded these groups of people. Hopefully, they will have heard the voices and will make those adjustments.
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