Hi guys, I have an urgent question:
I have a long term partner, we have known each other since May 2010.
We have been exchanging emails, phone calls and even handwritten letters for months.
Recently I went to see her for just under a month - we had a great time and took a lot of pictures.
I have been trying to find ways to bring her to New Zealand - I am a permanent resident and I desperatley want her here! we are in love and I want her here.
Can people give me options and help please, please, please! I have been in contact with the immigration office and they said the best way to get her in is to first get a visitor visa but to hide the fact she is coming in to New Zealand to be with me - I don't really like this idea because it means she would have to be lying....neither of us like it.
The other option is that we can try to get a partner-visitor visa but for this to happen we need to have a 'genuine and stable' relationship...which is about 1 year together...which obviously we do not have although we do have nearly a years worth of emails, letters and even photographs of when we were together.
Please, can anyone give me some help?
What do you recommend? Should we go for the visitor-partner visa? what is our best option? is there another visa out there that could work?
Thank you all in advance