I've been working for over 4 months now, having started work the day after landing. So I've now handed in our passports and all the evidence requested in order to get the Section 18A conditions removed from our visas.
I dropped the paperwork off in person to the Welly branch (just around the corner from work) so I hope they're OK with that. They didn't list "Section 18A removal requests" on the list of things you could put in the drop box, but it wasn't on the list of things you couldn't drop either! Here's hoping!
Anyway, we're (nearly) fully "legal" now, so maybe worth having a few more of these