Hello everyone,
Great to be back on here I've found this forum invaluable as a source of advice.
We were granted residency just over a month ago now (yay!) and my husband is currently in the process of trying to find work in NZ.
He's not having much luck so far and being told the jobs market in his industry is slow post recession, but bizarrely he has a lot of interest from people in Australia.
If he secures a job in Australia we will probably go there in the short term and look to make the move to NZ from there. How would we go about activating our residency visas and what do we need to do to ensure we don't lose them -so what criteria do we have to meet to ensure the visas are still valid?
In an ideal world we would go straight to NZ as that's where we want to be long-term but if the jobs aren't there it makes sense to move to Australia in the short term and keep trying to find work in NZ.
Thanks