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    Default Skilled Worker Told To Slim Before Coming To New Zealand...


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    Wonder what's next....

    Only non-smokers?
    Only those with no family history of diabetes or cancer?
    Only those who can jog non-stop for half an hour?
    Only those who pass a blood test for Mad cow disease?


    Will New Zealanders become a super race?

    Now that sounds familiar.....

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    Only those who pass a blood test for Mad cow disease?
    Whew - glad I got in when I did

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    Cool

    This also happend to me, I was refused my WTR visa until I got my BMI down from 39....I lost count at the number of times I had to go back and forth to the doctors to obtain more info for the NZIS...Took me six months and thankfully my employers at the time were happy to wait for me.


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    Hi

    we are moving to nz we hope in jan. my bmi is 34 as just had a baby, will i get in. no one has said what it has to get down to. My hubby is the one with a job offer and is a bean pole so hes ok but i dont want to stay here on my own, i have no family or friends here and no house as of last week. boo hoo.

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    a BMI of 35 and under doesn't seem to be an issue.

    Of the three articles I've read on this situation none of them say if the people had other health issues other than high BMI.

    I wonder what NZIS will say when my BMI is over but my waist measurements are under.

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    You mention Mad Cow Disease, are you aware that Brits can't give blood here until you have been here for 10 years? Just in case you have CJD. As for being a super race, well, eugenics and NZ politics go way back. It's an interesting bit of political history I haven't really looked at.

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    As far as I know - you can't give blood if you lived in the UK for 6 months or more between certain years in the 1980s (can't remember them).
    As it says here...

    http://www.nzblood.co.nz/?t=41




    But no-one has ever mentioned we could start again once we had been here 10 years.... as far as we are concerned it's forever!
    A shame really - hubby used to donate platelets monthly until this was brought in about 6 years ago.
    He had one of the highest platelet counts in Wellington.
    Now he has to keep them all to himself!

    Last edited by Carol; 17th November 2007 at 04:29 PM.

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    check out the sun newspaper this saturday page 45

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