Job search visa granted

[Noorala]

Hi all, today we were granted a job search visa, what are the consequences for such a visa and could we send an appeal for the case officer explaining why this visa does not suit our conditions as a family Whose all members should leave together؟ thanks in advance

[JandM]

Being offered a job search visa is a direct result of what was said by the main applicant in the course of the interview with the CO. SM21.10 d. http://onlineservices.immigration.go...nual/43652.htm There is no way to change that outcome. The job search visa gives a chance for the main applicant to show they can make good in New Zealand by getting the offer of a skilled job, which is an opportunity that the many people waiting for visas would VERY MUCH like to have.

The whole point of the SMC JSV is for the main applicant to go alone and concentrate all their time and resources on getting a skilled job. As soon as they do that and get their deferred Residence, then their partner and any children who were on the original SMC application get their Residence, too, and can join them.

This may seem harsh, but it was a rule change in response to what had become an even harsher problem. Under the old regulations, when a family was allowed to go with a JSV holder, they would find a home, maybe the partner, on an open visa, would find a job, and the children would settle into school. But if, in nine months, the JSV holder had NOT got a skilled job, they would all be told to leave the country. Of course, it was a heartbreaking thing for this group of people, having to tear up the life they had begun to make for themselves, and even worse if, despite all warnings, they had sold up their home in their original country and now had nothing to go back to. That is why the law is now as it is.

[Noorala]

Being offered a job search visa is a direct result of what was said by the main applicant in the course of the interview with the CO. SM21.10 d. http://onlineservices.immigration.go...nual/43652.htm There is no way to change that outcome. The job search visa gives a chance for the main applicant to show they can make good in New Zealand by getting the offer of a skilled job, which is an opportunity that the many people waiting for visas would VERY MUCH like to have.

The whole point of the SMC JSV is for the main applicant to go alone and concentrate all their time and resources on getting a skilled job. As soon as they do that and get their deferred Residence, then their partner and any children who were on the original SMC application get their Residence, too, and can join them.

This may seem harsh, but it was a rule change in response to what had become an even harsher problem. Under the old regulations, when a family was allowed to go with a JSV holder, they would find a home, maybe the partner, on an open visa, would find a job, and the children would settle into school. But if, in nine months, the JSV holder had NOT got a skilled job, they would all be told to leave the country. Of course, it was a heartbreaking thing for this group of people, having to tear up the life they had begun to make for themselves, and even worse if, despite all warnings, they had sold up their home in their original country and now had nothing to go back to. That is why the law is now as it is.

I am wondering what a skilled job is. And how long does it take to get the residence visa after I get a job? If I get my family with me on a visit visa, could my kids join state schools there?

[JandM]

A skilled job is one that meets these requirements. http://onlineservices.immigration.go...nual/30545.htm See particularly SM7.10 and SM7.15. It has to be a job in line with the qualifications and experience that you proved on your application under SMC. (Although the SMC JSV gives the right to take any job offered, to help you meet your living expenses, ONLY a skilled job in your proven line of work will be enough to activate the deferred Residence visa that is waiting for you.)

Once you have the formal offer of a job - the letter, and the contract with all the small print - you take that to the local INZ office (you don't have to refer back to the overseas one where your application was processed in the first place), and the Residence visa will be issued very quickly, probably within two weeks or less. (News of this will also be available to the overseas INZ office, so the rest of your family can also have their residence visas issued at once.) Your Residence will be issued with a Section 49(1) condition on it, that you must work for that employer for three months. When you have done that, still working there, you can go back to INZ with proof (pay slips, and tax and financial records), and they will give you a different visa label with NO conditions (the same for your family's visas), so then you could change your job having given due notice if you wanted to.

Your family are very unlikely to be granted visitors' visas. See Things to Note at the right hand side of this page. https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-...s-visitor-visa And if your family applied for ordinary visitors' visas, the system would make the link to the fact that you had an SMC JSV, which in most cases means the applications would be refused, for the reasons mentioned in my last post. A visitor's visa is not a fill-in for every situation - it is only intended for a bona fide visitor, intending a limited stay and then leaving NZ and returning to a home/life/job elsewhere. The fact of one family member trying to acquire residence shows that the rest of the family are hoping NOT to leave, so they are not bona fide visitors.