Sunday 6 December 2009

Immigration status

Since we've got the residence permits (= arrival to NZ with residence visas), the immigration concerns have all gone out of my head. We'd made it. We are residents. Well, our Returning Residents Visas (RRVs) are good for 2 years only, and when we finally get indefinite RRVs, we can at last relax and forget about all the mess.

Now my husband (who happens to be the main person in our immigration business somehow) has worked for more than 3 months in the job that he was offered. Technically speaking, he can quit his job now and it won't affect our immigration status.

He has sent his passport to the Immigration NZ in Christchurch to remove whatever they had to remove from our status (that we were temporary until the day my husband had completed his 3rd month at his job...I guess). And finally his passport has expired. It's not easy to renew a Russian passport - it'll take more than half a year to get a new one. Meaning now our main person in our immigration process DOESN'T have his current passport!

Scary. Fingers crossed.

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