Finally I get to post... after waiting for confirmation email for 3 hours, I knew something was wrong. So I went back and check, and Wallah! My email ended with .con, yeah...
Anyway, good evening to everyone. My names Gun.
So here are my circumstances, hope you have a good read
My family own a business overseas, with around 40 employees. Now, my family's friends (a NZ PR couple) came to visit us, and got interested in our business. They wanted to open that business over here and hire my dad as a Managing Director. Me and my siblings are studying here as a foreigner, so it would be great if we could get residency. I checked, so I'm pretty sure that the MD job (or whatever floats the boat) fits in SMC category. Now here's my question.
1. The company that will give out the job offer (what my family's friend just opened up) will be a new one... meaning there will be nothing for immigration to check... So we would like to know if they would let us through, even though the company is new with no current employment? Since the plan was to hire my dad first, then we go from there (buying office, hiring extra NZders, importing products, etc.) could we use that as an argument?
A big note here that he has more than 20 years of experience in this field, and his current role is the Technical and Sales Director (My mom's the MD ) So he has very high specialisation in the field. Our current business is 19 years old and the sales revenue is around $NZ 2million per year.
So I think we might be able to argue there that the success of this new business depend on him?
2. Supposed that we could not argue the above point... what do Immigration like to see? I mean do they want to see $1 million in the business bank account? Or that we already prepare everything regardless of if my dad's visa gonna get through or not? Please shed light on this... or should I consult a lawyer?
3. This might sound quite stupid... but is it ok to have my mom as a share holder of this new company? I know this made it kinda even more shady... but it has bugged me for a while and I'm desperate for an answer...
4. If we can't do 3. in normal circumstances, can we do it IF my mom is not include in the residency application? She also has different last name than my dad, though it should already be in record when I apply for my student visa anyway...
5. Now this is a completely different question... What if we try open the business in NZ ourselves? I asked my Adviser since the beginning of the year, and he said our business are not qualify as we are not (big) exporter... what are your opinion on that? o_o I got 190 points in their excel thingy (if we are going to set up outside of auckland and our business provide new product/service to that area)
Oh and for SMC the points indicator on INZ said my dad score was 225... I double check and try adding the point by myself and got 195... pretty weird (In the case that we work outside of auckland and our business could be consider IT... so his job/experience can be identify as IFG..)
Hope that is not too much to read ;p
Any advice, suggestion, or comments are much appreciated
Thanks in advance