Work visa processing times?

[cathgates]

Any one have a ball park figure on average processing times of work visas for job on issl at the moment?

Cath XX

[tea drinker]

would be interested in the answer to this one myself

[Mrs Pony]

We got a working holiday visa in about a week.... but that was from the US... Not sure if it's different or not.

[925dancer]

WHV are processed much quicker as the only criteria really is meeting the age requirements.

Work visa's are a whole other kettle of fish! I think someone said they were running about two months but to be honest I have no idea!

Sorry, I'm not very helpful

[enz1]

All my work permits were processed within 6-8 weeks

[wes0074q]

Hi - my brother-in-law battled with this after he arrived here (On a holiday visa) and got offered a job. It's the obvious catch-22 isn't it; you can't get a job without a permit and you can't get a permit without a job. Anyway he was quoted 7-8 weeks processing time with no guarantee. However I took him into the immigration office here in Christchurch - OK we queued from 7:00am - and he got his Permit stamped for 3 years. I got the impression that they (Christchurch) ar not really set-up for Permits and they seem to limit how many people the see each day - hence our early arrival. But if you've got an offer I'd suggest you do the same.

[RTNZ]

The last time I got a WTR visa in 2007 it took less than a week going through the NZ Embassy in Los Angeles.

[M-Squared]

The last time I got a WTR visa in 2007 it took less than a week going through the NZ Embassy in Los Angeles.

Times appear to have got a lot longer since then. I got my work permit in October 2007. It took 2 weeks. One of my mates got his (one month before me) in under a week. Both permits were applied for and granted in Wellington.

[cathgates]

OUr permits are being processed in Hamilton, and the woman on the counter was very thorough, she sent us away and told me I had to write our "love story" as part of my application for partner visa, this was not very easy to do, writing about our personal relationship to a perfect stranger, how we met, what we do, what makes us who we are, and why we are happy. Everything I thought about writing sounded so corny!!!

Cath XX