My son has had an email from INZ saying that his residency visa (SMC) has been Approved In Principle but that he needs to resubmit a reference from an ex employer in paper format (along with his passport for stamping). I think he has until September to do so. He did in fact submit a pdf version of the reference when he lodged his ITA in January but has now asked his ex employer to provide him a paper version.

My question is ... How confident can we be that my son will be granted a residency visa once INZ have the paper based reference? My heart tells me to post the dancing bananas but my head tells me not to tempt fate!!