Hello all,
I am currently on an open working visa and was planning to apply for Essential Skill Visa because my current visa is expiring. I also wanted to apply for SMC because I was meeting 160 points threshold. I met with an immigration consultant and she told me things which I am not sure are true or not. He has rather confused me.
He said that first I need to apply for Essential skill visa. My job was advertised in Feb and then I was interviewed and got a job offer. My immigration advisor said that now my employer needs to re-advertise the role before offering you a permanent role. at that time, I was offered the job by employer knowing that I have open working visa. but now re-advertisement is needed and a new job offer should be made, and employer must show that genuine attempt was made to hire kiwi/residents. I told my consultant that why another job advertisement is needed when it was already made in Feb and employer did genuine attempt to recruit kiwis. My consultant has not answered this question and asked me to pay fee in order to answer. Have any one gone through this stage? Does this make any sense what my consultant is saying?
My consultant also told me that once I have essential skill visa, we can later apply for SMC and only the current SMC rules will be applicable on our SMC application because we got essential skill under current SMC rules. Whatever he said make no sense to me. IS that true whatever she is saying to me?