hi all,
i am quite satisfied with the INZ and their services which i have availed till date.
so you might be wondering why this thread?
i thought i should share with you all some thing which is very funny and kind of a blunder too.
my friend who had come to NZ on a silver fern job search visa has been working here now for 4-5 months as an embedded software engineer.
his resident visa application was approved in October.
since he had gone to India to celebrate Diwali festivities there, he came back here last week and submitted his passport for the blue sticker along with my credit card details for migrant levy deduction.
last week on November 30, he got an email that his passport would be sent via courier.
so last Friday, i collected the passport on his behalf from the post shop in Auckland.
even i was quite excited to have a look at the blue sticker hence i opened the parcel.
it contained all the docs which he had submitted along with new migrant guide and a letter + receipt of migrant levy confirming that his residency was approved and enclosed was his passport.
the interesting thing starts now.
i checked the passport to see the sticker and to my utter shock I COULD NOT FIND ANY.
i went through the passport almost 5 times and 6th time i even counted the pages along with their numbers mentioned.
the sticker was not there at all.
i called my friend and he was shocked too.
he then called the immigration office and told the lady about it.
the lady actually couldn't understand what happened and after explaining for the 3rd time she was shocked and said "oh my goodness, how could this happen?"
anyway, i have submitted the passport to queen street branch of INZ again with a letter from my friend about the blunder.
thanks for reading this and do share here if any of you has seen such kind of an incident from INZ.
cheers.