I'm sick to death of looking at visas for new zealand, I'm so sure that they are just trying to confuse whoever is trying to get there, I'm not going to bore you with the details but today i applied for a working holiday visa which lets me stay in the country for 23 months and work for 12 months.
I applied online and straight away i was approved pending a phone call for them to have a chat and find out what i was like, anyway after going through all the questions again on the phone everything was looking promising until .... she asked,
"have you had a job offer"
"yes" i replied
"fantastic, how long for"
"well permanent, pending a 3 month trial"
"oh, you cant have this visa if you have a permanent position offer"
REALLY!!! REALLYYYY!!!!
so now, i have to pay over £3000 for a skilled worker visa which takes up to 6 months to be accepted for, which i didn't really want to do, since I'm on a 3 month trial at the job i have landed, i would much rather get the trial over and then apply for the skilled visa which grants me residency ... that makes so so sooo much sense, it even said on the website that i could do this, but after i explained this on the phone she said, no, we cant do this, you will have to call the embassy again and ask them.
ugh .. .nightmare. i feel like its never going to happen, and its just one setback after another ...
but .. here's a song for anyone that actually read all this to listen to.
cheers :)
Joe
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