Hi Everyone,
I'd like to ask for clarification on my situation. I have a 2 years Partnership Work Visa which will expire on 30 Sept 2018. I lodged my Partnership Residency Application in Wellington Branch 30 January 2017. Then they emailed me 12 April 2017 stating that my application has now been transferred to Manukau Branch and will then be assigned to a CO once it arrives at the branch and it did. ON 29 April 2017, the CO emailed me asking for additional documents and have posted to her the required papers on 02 May 2017. From then until now, I have not heard anything from her. I rang the INZ hotline, they said it usually takes 1-4 months processing due to backlog of applications and applications being diverted now to Manukau branch.
My question now is, what kind of verification will they do? Do they contact the embassy as to what the nationality of the principal applicant? My work visa was only approved last 29 Sept 2016 and I have submitted everything so I assume all the verification is done already at that stage.
Please enlighten me. I would appreciate it so much!