So I've just called Immigration to let them know that the last repatriation flight to my home country has left yesterday, and the government will not send anymore planes to New Zealand. If you choose to stay here, good luck.
Therefore as from today I am almost a refugee
. If I want to go back, it will have to be in a canoe.
Maybe I should know better by now, but the person at the phone told me that some applications from January where given a CO already.
Also his guess was that I should getting my residency processed during the year I will get from applying to the extension of my ESV, as it shouldn't be too long before I get a CO......................
I took the opportunity to do some catharsis and tell him how unfair this new set of rules was.
Lastly, there is a bit more information that I want to share, but before reading it please keep in mind that English is my second language and also was the case for the person on the phone, and I am not quite sure he understood my question as I had to rephrase it quite a few times.
My question was "do you know if anyone who didn't fulfill the prioritization criteria and gained residency during the last year?"
His answer was he hasn't seen such a thing happening, but there could be a possibility that he interpreted my question like "does anyone that didn't complied with the priority criteria been given a case officer faster than me?".
PS: I want my bananas for changing my status from immigrant to refugee eh!