Hey guys! I am just seeking some clarification from one of the admins or from anyone who works from INZ (or anyone else who can help).
If I am applying for a temporary work visa based on partnership and my partner and I have been together for about a year and a half but due to me working full time in another country and he is doing his Phd and working in NZ as an NZ permanent resident will our trips to see each other and staying at each others homes count as timed lived together?
I ask because I know that they really want to know that time has been spent living together for this visa to be approved.
We began the relationship while he was in NZ and since I work and live in another country we have never been able to lease anywhere together. Currently we have his 6 weeks with him visiting me last July- August, 3 weeks from me visiting him in NZ this Feb-March and he is currently here visiting me for 5 weeks (3 and a half weeks already passed.) So 3 months to date.
I live with my father and he wrote a letter stating that we both stay there and we both pay bills towards the house as well as my partner submitted his lease agreement from his apartment we stayed in when we were in NZ. My name can't go on it as his landlord wasn't really notified that I was there and so can't vouch for me. But we do have pictures of us in the apartment and a letter from him mom ( who also lives in NZ) confirming that we lived there together while I went to NZ on a visitor visa.
Would this be enough? Or will these visas only be approved if there's a solid lease agreement.
Thanks for any help,
Pat