Applying for Residency runing out of time....

[scottie0039]

Hi there,

I am a UK citizen that has been living in NZ for the past 3 years together with my Kiwi partner.

Previously I have held a - Working Holiday Visa, a Working: Talent Visa and I am currently on a Work Visa – Partner of NZ citizen.

My visa expires in 2 months time having held it for 2 years in total and I am only just getting round to applying for Residency now (slack I know!). I was told to apply for a Temporary Work Visa - Partner at the same time as submitting my Residency application.

Does anyone know If I can just submit the temp work partner visa without the residency application? Apparently it only take 25 days to process that type of visa, just don’t think I will have OZ and UK police certificates back in time to send it all in at the same time.....

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[JandM]

Yes, you could just put in for another partner-sponsored work visa at this time, for speed, and forward the Residence application when all the paperwork is to hand.