Fantastic - thank you JandM!
I've just sent off my application for registration with (what will be) my professional body in NZ - The Medical Sciences Council. This has involved police checks (I'll need them again for my visa application), certifying qualifications, references, completing a healthcare module on the Treaty of Waitangi and $529 payment but I feel like things are slowly starting to move.
Registration will then let me apply for jobs and then with an offer from an accredited employer, apply for the visa. Then an Annual Practicing Certificate to pay for and I'm away. Simple!? ��
Just one question - on the family stream visa, would my wife be free to take up ANY employment once there or would she need to specify a field and get a job offer? In the UK she's a teacher but her GTP qualification isn't recognised in NZ as its an 'on the job qualification' with no negotiation. So she's been looking to change career - she has a degree in business and an NVQ3 in maintains and repairing telecommunications equipment (don't ask!). Best case scenario is she'd come across with me with a job offer in hand but I don't know how realistic this is.
Mike