Hi all
First of all I am so grateful for JandM for passing on my request to be able to finally post on here (i have been scrolling and reading posts everyday since October last year and can finally post!! Yay!)
My husband and I are applying for a partnership based work visa and I had some questions, I would be grateful if anyone could please help us out on here
We applied for a partnership based work visa in March last year which was declined as we were not living together.
We then applied for a visit visa in September last year. This was also declined. However our LIA pushed us to apply for a reassessment (even though he was overseas). The manager approved the application for reassessment of the visit visa and assigned the case to another case officer.
After a thorough process including phone interviews and third party checks, his visit visa was finally granted. He arrived in NZ on 5 January (has a 6 month visa).
When filling in the online form we are not sure how many declined visas he has. Would the visa that was declined and then approved after reassessment be considered a second declined visa?
(We have requested his immigration file and we were hoping that would shed some light on it however it has been 20 working days and we still have not received it)
Thank you in advance!