Hi
We're in the UK and my partner applied for residency a few weeks ago. She received an e-mail today from the good people at NZI - approval in principle. It was a very straight forward application and actually only took 3 weeks from the time we lodged it - must be some kind of record.
Anyway, she's been granted Permanent Residence straight away as I'm a kiwi and we've lived together for over 5 years etc.....so that's cool, no need to apply for it later on. However, I thought Permanent Residence came without any travel conditions, however the e-mail says:
"Your resident visa allows you to live, work, and study in New Zealand. The visa has travel conditions so that you can return to New Zealand as a resident. As you will be issued with a permanent resident visa, you will not need to apply for a further resident visa, but you will need to apply to transfer your visa into any new passport you obtain.
We will send you information about the travel conditions on resident visas when we return your visa and passport"
We think it's just some generic e-mail where they didn't bother to remove the bit about travel conditions......but maybe not. Does anyone have any idea about this?
Thanks
kirkynz