Yesterday I took the day off work and we made a lot of progress on our NZ Residency application. Well, when I say that, what I actually mean was we got our medical examinations, chest X-Rays and blood tests done.

Sophie was really well behaved, she got quite bored but was still quite happy by the end of it all. We have all had the same cold recently – it’s gone from Sophie to Candi to Me – so it was quite funny turning up for health assessments, all coughing and sneezing. I felt like we had to justify ourselves, “we aren’t normally this ill, honestly!“

It shouldn’t take long before we have all the results back, then we just need our completed application forms, ACPO Police Check certificate (waiting on this from the UK) and all supporting evidence – ie exam certificates etc, then we’ll be one step closer to our NZ Residency.

The NZ Immigration Service says we should allow up to 9 months for our applications to be processed, but a friend of a friend just went through the same thing and theirs was approved in six weeks. I guess they don’t have much of a backlog at present.

We’ll keep you updated on our progress. Watch this space!