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    Hi everyone,

    I just want to know your thoughts about my application.

    We submitted our complete documents on 10 May 2016 and got our assigned CO on 24 July 2016 and at the same time questionnaire was emailed to my employer. I was also asked to provide payslips.IRD contributions(forgot the proper term) and immediately provided such after 2 days.
    After a month I was asked to submit specialist assessment for my daughter's medical and was sent to HAT(Health Assessment Team) for assessment..I got a reply from my CO that the medical status of my daughter is accepted for residence and my employment is still under assessment.

    Right now our application is almost on its 6th month (10 Nov 2016) and my work visa will be expiring on 21 December 2016 so I am thinking to renew it by next month.

    What do you think,Can I make a follow up or just wait for the CO to advise me on its status? Also, how can I see or check the status of my application online without making a phone call or email follow up to my CO or to contact centre?

    I got an INZ log on details but when I am logging on it is just showing up ITA LAPSED. I am not sure if I am on the right log on or should register to another site to view my application status.

    Any comments will be very much appreciated.

    PS. By the way my job position is Office Manager.

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    Can I make a follow up or just wait for the CO to advise me on its status? Also, how can I see or check the status of my application online without making a phone call or email follow up to my CO or to contact centre?
    In your place, since you are within eight weeks of the expiry of your present visa, I would write to the CO asking if your Residence is likely to be processed in time, or if you should renew your work visa. You can't find out what in detail is happening to your application without making contact.

    About logging on to the INZ website, if you're not sure of having the right details, in this post http://www.enz.org/forum/showthread....060#post539060 there's an email address you can contact.

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    Hi. Thank you for the response. I emailed the contact centre to ask for the link and pin to check the status of our application.

    I hope we got the approval on the 6th month or better if before.

    Been praying a lot.

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    Another thing that worries me to make a follow up is it might piss off the CO and then stretch my application up to 9 months maximum. What do you think , would they do or could they do that?

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    You won't annoy a CO by asking a question when you have a very reasonable reason for asking it. You really NEED to know if you should renew your work visa. The people who don't understand that INZ works to a system, and think that asking repeatedly if their case is finished will speed it up, are the ones who are really annoying, and I remember seeing that one such person got a letter from the INZ branch manager telling him to stop harassing his staff.

    And that connects to your other question. INZ works to a system, and everything is closely managed. Just as a CO can't speed up the process when repeatedly urged to, s/he can't slow it down for reasons of resentment, either. And the most pushy and impertinent applicant just got a polite, though forceful, letter.

    Incidentally, you have evidently seen an estimate that your residence will take 6 - 9 months to process. Nobody can take any timings mentioned by INZ as a promise - those are only their best guess based on averages of how things HAD BEEN going recently. But INZ are currently EXTREMELY busy. Many are taking around a year to process. Try not to hope too hard for anything better. You might get a pleasant surprise, but being resigned to a long time is better for your nerves.

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    Hello.

    I just did email them and expect a reply tomorrow. I just cant stop thinking of the delay of the approval because my CO had a month of holiday so I am thinking that it is one of the reasons of delay.Though CO assigned my case temporarily to an acting CO when she was on holiday but still just cant stop thinking of it.

    You are right that it is really better to make a follow up than guessing.

    I remember a couple of weeks ago I phoned up the Contact Centre to make a follow up and the lady said that its on its
    last stage,the assessment process so I am thinking if how long would it take them to do the assessment.Have they just started up doing the assessment of my employment or on its middle stage. I also mentioned about my work visa expiring soon. She just said Goodluck. Somehow it gave me a sense of relief.

    But cannot avoid thinking what if I am waiting for nothing? Do you think they will let me wait for 6months just to let me know that its declined?

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    But cannot avoid thinking what if I am waiting for nothing? Do you think they will let me wait for 6months just to let me know that its declined?
    You MUST avoid thinking this way, for your own health's sake. You are allowing yourself to invent a fantasy in which INZ procedures are designed for mental torture, whereas you KNOW that it is a government department which has to verify the evidence supporting all the thousands of applications. They DON'T know at the beginning of the process how it is going to work out: that is the whole point of the process - to work it through, and find out. So NO, there isn't some sadist there who says, 'Oh, look, here's a definite refusal. We'll put that one on a shelf and send him a letter to tell him in six months or a year after he's worried himself into taking tranquillizers, what a laugh.' In the real world, if the CO finds something in the evidence which needs more information, s/he will say so (as yours did with your daughter's medical). Otherwise, WHEN the processing and verifying is complete, s/he will say so. UNTIL the processing and verifying is complete, s/he CAN'T tell you anything, because there is nothing to tell. Most of the time passing will not be due to any problem with your case. Every CO works around 90 cases in rotation, so there are bound to be times when yours is busy with other people's files, and any information that has arrived for your case is waiting till your file moves up the queue for its next turn for her attention.

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    Hi @JandM! My initial assessment was done last Saturday and provided the docs that my CO is asking like IRD and new COE. Im wondering if they still need to contact my previous employer here in NZ though I provided Certificate of Employment? Whag questions do they usually ask from your previous employer?

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    Every piece of evidence gets verified, by asking someone who is in a position to know if it is true. What they need about a previous job is start date and finish date, the hours you worked (to check that it was full-time), your responsibilities and the level of qualification you needed to be able to carry those out, and your salary level (to check that it was paid like a skilled job). Some of that information may be available from your financial and tax records.

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    I received my new (restricted) working visa May 2, 2016 which has a condition that allows me to work for a single employer only. May 3 to May 8, I consumed my annual leave from m previous job because im going to start my work in a newjob on May 9. So when I filed my annual leave (ahead of time before I apply new working visa), it the time Im waiting for my new working visa to arrive and suddenly approve on May 2.
    Now, the CO asking me while my IRD shows im still receiving payments on the month of May where should I only receive payments only for my new employer on May.
    I explain to them thats because of annual leave. Im still waiting for reply..

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