Just starting a thread to touch base with others with a similar timeline.
EOI selected: April 3,2019
ITA: April 4, 2019
ITA submitted: May 7, 2019
Now the long wait begins.
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Just starting a thread to touch base with others with a similar timeline.
EOI selected: April 3,2019
ITA: April 4, 2019
ITA submitted: May 7, 2019
Now the long wait begins.
Latest update from INZ Manukau is that they were allocating applications lodged on 20 November to CO's today. So it's taking 171 days or 5 months & 20 days from lodgement to allocation. This is slooooow and nowhere near what the target timeframes.
But in good news, it's only taking 2 weeks for an application to get through the second person check process now (down from 4 weeks last month).
Thank you. I will keep positive that it will somehow be faster!
Our timeline so far:
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 200
EOI Selected: 17/04/2019
ITA Received: 18/04/2019
ITA Document Pack Submitted to Penrose: 29/04/2019
Still no lodgement date 2 weeks later.
Just curious if you ever received a lodgment for your SMC?
Our ITA expiration is May 24. Do you know what happens if our application is not lodged before the 24th? Will it be declined?
You must have SUBMITTED your ITA by that date, or you will have lost your chance on this application. It may not have been notified to you as LODGED by then (because INZ's processes are running very slowly, and it can be a month after arrival in the INZ post room before the next action happens), but when an official gets to dealing with it, the lodgement date will be recorded as the date it first arrived with INZ.
Awesome - thank you! I got notice today that it was received and signed for in Auckland, so I will assume it is there in time. It was such an ordeal for us to get reference letters because they had to be mailed from the US, and while some folks said they would mail them “ASAP”, they didn’t! I’m glad to have the bulk of the application behind us. Now... we wait!
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 185
EOI Selected: 23/01/2019
ITA Received: 24/01/2019
SMC Application received at Penrose: 15/05/2019
Waiting for Application to be lodged.
Hello Guys,
Been following this forum for some time and finally my turn to apply for SMC! Will keep updating my timeline as it goes :)
Just noticed something. I was given only 4 months to compile my documents instead of 6 months? How many months are you guys given?
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 200
EOI Selected: 15/05/2019
ITA Received: 16/05/2019
I think that 4 months is the standard from what I have read and my own personal experience.
Yes, four months is the time-limit for sending back the ITA and evidence, and has been all the time I've been taking an interest in INZ.
6 months is generally the time taken to send through information requested in an Approved in Principle letter (well, in my case anyway). Can vary though -- I seem to recall this being 12 months to send through information requested for an Investor category AIP (I was bored enough to page through those immigration instructions one day!).
I've always known it to be 4 months to send through an application under the Skilled Migrant Category after the Invitation to Apply has been sent.
3 weeks (21 days) and there's no lodgement date yet. I really hope the courier delivered the package to the correct address and didn't stuff up the delivery.
It will be fine, INZ is taking around a month or even more to lodge an application. You can try to login on the system, it might already have appeared on it.
https://onlineservices.immigration.govt.nz/?STATUS
Thanks dude. I check that link every single day :)
I received an email from INZ (regarding a separate issue about my application) and they said it was taking 2-6 weeks for the application to be allocated to a lodgment officer
When I check online it says that my application is pending...no lodgment date. Does your appear as pending?
Hi Guys, I'm unsure on the police certificate for SMC Visa. Do I need to apply for police certificate or criminal/traffic clearace from ministry of justice? I saw a clause in the guide that Immigration NZ will automatically get police certificate for me. So does that mean for New Zealand police certificate, I do not need to do anything?
Correct - INZ will do the necessary.
Thanks JandM,
Will focus on getting police certificate from only my home country :)
No lodgement date yet, however, payment was deducted today.
Our timeline so far:
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 200
EOI Selected: 17/04/2019
ITA Received: 18/04/2019
ITA Document Pack Submitted to Penrose: 29/04/2019
ITA Payment Deducted by INZ: 22/05/2019
Update:
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 200
EOI Selected: 17/04/2019
ITA Received: 18/04/2019
ITA Document Pack Submitted to Penrose: 29/04/2019
ITA Payment Deducted by INZ: 22/05/2019
ITA Lodgement Date: 29/04/2019 (backdated to courier delivery date)
Original documents received back: 23/05/2019
Now we await assignment to a CO :)
Told you that the lodgement date is the date of receipt... :)
And now your watch begins.
Latest update from INZ Manukau today - SMC applications lodged on 28 November are being allocated to CO's today (so it's taking almost 6 months from lodgement to getting onto an Immigration Officer's desk now :().
Hi All,
Have been reading through all the other threads like ITA Oct 2018, ITA Mar 2019 and a lot of my doubts are getting cleared at ease. Brilliant forum..
very very helpful and informative. Thanks to all fellow applicants and senior members..
Just sharing my time line
EOI Applied: 25/03/2019
ITA Recieved: 04/04/2019
IQA Applied for applicant & spouse: 09/04/2019
IQA received : 10/05/2019
ITA Couriered: 22/05/2019
ITA Lodged : 24/05/2019 (courier receipt date at penrose)
Awaiting CO allocation: after reading the recent threads, it seems I might get CO by end 2019.. :)
Payment deducted today. Back dated to a lodgement of May 10/2019. So just shy of 3 weeks from courier to payment deducted.
My timeline so far:
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 160
EOI Selected: 20/03/2019
ITA Received: 21/03/2019
ITA Document Pack Submitted to Penrose: 09/05/2019
Still no lodgement date/Payment Deducted
Our timeline so far:
Onshore SMC application, 180 points claimed
EOI selected: 17/04/2019
“Decision successful”: 18/04/2019
I rang immigration on 08/05 as we didn’t receive our ITA and got told ITA was sent to my partner’s work email. My partner doesn’t have a work email but he shares the first name with his employer so ITA was sent to wrong person. They said they’ll resend it the same day but didn’t happen so rang next day and asked again and finally received it 09/05/2019. My partner asked his employer to check for it but he couldn’t find it.
ITA submitted to Penrose: 15/05/2019
30/05/2019: appeared as lodged in system backdated to 15/05/2019
Email today requesting further information! It was sent by a senior immigration officer, does that mean I already have a CO?
There is no way to tell for certain, until s/he says so specifically. Clerks look over an application after first lodgement (which can lead to one of those asking for more evidence if they notice any gaps in what you have sent), then the file normally waits in a queue for allocation to a CO. The clerks can be referred to as Immigration Officers, but I don't know if a Senior Information Officer might be an experienced one, or whether it would be equivalent to a Case Officer.