Hi, I would just like to ask as to what other requirements or evidence i could submit to the immigration to get a partnership visa. But i would like to discuss my status first, i came here on a tourist visa through my cousin's sponsorship..and was able to get a work visa that was sponsored by my company where i am working now. That work visa will expire on Oct17 of this year and had conditions of not letting me work for other companies and would only allow me to work here in Christchurch. I've been with my partner since Sept29 last year, but he lives and work in Wellington and I live and work here in Christchurch. We are really going serious now, and he asked me to move in with him in Wellington. That is why i asked my company to transfer me to the Wellington site (but of course i still have to apply for a new visa for that) but the transfer is just taking a long time and we just want to be with each other.
Now we then found out that we could apply for a partnership visa after i called in to ask immigration. I told them that we are not living together because of work and that we are in a relationship for only 9months and the officer said it's fine so as long that we could provide evidence that we are in a stable and genuine relationship.
Here's a list of the evidence we have as of the moment:
* flight itineraries and boarding passes we took going to and from wellington and christchurch over the past 9months to see each other (15 flights in total)
* flight itineraries and boarding passes from our recent trip to the Philippines for a 2 week holiday to meet my family
*pictures of all the time we were together here in NZ and Philippines in chronological order with captions of dates, people we are with and the place where we took the photo.
* skype logs of all our calls since we met
* hotel and motel receipts
* car rental receipts
* letter and cards we have received from each other
* our relationship bucketlist
* a copy of our notes for house hunting we have been doing for the past couple of months
* joint bank account statement that we recently opened
* FB activities that we have been tagged and has mentions of us
* FB messages from the start
* his support letter
* my letter (coverletter)
* my dad and mum's support letter
* his dad's support letter
* my cousin's (living in auckland) support letter
* my brother's support letter
Now, here are my questions:
* would we really need to print out all of our FB Messages because its quite a lot?
* do we have to include our CV?
* do we have to include our separate bank statements?
* we don't live in the same house and the longest time we were together was the 2 week holiday in the Philippines. Do we really need to live together in order to get the partnership visa?
We would really like to be able to submit this application so as we could be able to be together soon as possible.Thank you so much in advance for helping me. Hope to read answers soon as..