- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
Both systems may look easy until you are involved and start the process. A friend of mine has a son doing the opposite and trying to get a visa for the UK. It was not an easy process and he had married an English girl.
New Zealand - Land of milk and honey? Holwellcourtfarm's tour 2017
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kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
I'd agree with that, I have a Kiwi friend that has worked as a chartered accountant in London for a couple of years but has basically given up trying to get residency.
I used to flick between America and NZ and enjoyed not seeing a winter, but I was forever buggering about getting visa's, medicals and criminal record checks (when you walk into a NZ police station and say you want your fingerprints taken so you can send them to the FBI you get some funny looks
)I decided to pick a country and the US looked even harder to get into.
- Location
- Derbyshire
That's a shame HC. I was looking forward to your continued thread of making the move.
Someone I know has just moved out this summer. He's 50+, intends to settle and I would have thought struggled in the investment categories. He did however get a permanent job offer and as soon as it was through he was gone. He's a plasterer. (A good one)
Campbell
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Did the old £10 Pom visa of the sixties ever apply in NZ?
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
You picked a good one.I'd agree with that, I have a Kiwi friend that has worked as a chartered accountant in London for a couple of years but has basically given up trying to get residency.
I used to flick between America and NZ and enjoyed not seeing a winter, but I was forever buggering about getting visa's, medicals and criminal record checks (when you walk into a NZ police station and say you want your fingerprints taken so you can send them to the FBI you get some funny looks
I decided to pick a country and the US looked even harder to get into.
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
Yes
n.w
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- Location
- western isles
If I had my time over. I would be knocking on the door, if your young get over there !
The fluent English bit is the funniest requirement 
how many Kiwis actually speak that .. ?
how many Kiwis actually speak that .. ?- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Most of the building trades are desperately needed so easier to get a job offer.
Canada Farmer
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Eh,The fluent English bit is the funniest requirement
I can honestly say the worst English I've ever heard was from Yorkshire!!!I guess that's somewhere in the UK?
Irish NZ
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- Location
- The mighty Waikato NZ
A poor choice of words written in haste as I rushed out the door to milk.Integrate is a better word than "assimilate". Nothing wrong in becoming a "Kiwi" but no need to loose your cultural identity.
Integrate was the word I was looking for. I don't think my accent will ever let me pass for a true born and bred kiwi
FonterraFarmer
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- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
You have as much right to be called a Kiwi as anyone else in NZ, given the fact there is no indigenous population in the true sense of the word, given the fact that these islands have been only populated for less than a 1000 years or less , apparently.A poor choice of words written in haste as I rushed out the door to milk.
Integrate was the word I was looking for. I don't think my accent will ever let me pass for a true born and bred kiwi
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Nobody is / everyone is - it's your choice how you see your self .A poor choice of words written in haste as I rushed out the door to milk.
Integrate was the word I was looking for. I don't think my accent will ever let me pass for a true born and bred kiwi
Paul just beat me to it - the original inhabitants of NZ are extinct, so all of us can call ourselves immigrants
Nobody is any better, or any worse than anyone else, just how it should be
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Well within their rights to object, IMO.
texas pete
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- Location
- East Mids
I agree. I just thought it was interesting that the same person/occasion can be either celebrated or reviled, depending on your point of view.
@holwellcourtfarm ,there’s plenty of great places to live in the UK,the Welsh borders areas are fantastic virtually all the way from South to North.
Just quiet enough however not too far from civilisation.
I believe places like Northumberland have very high satisfaction ratings.
I rate the place we live highly as we are just far enough from the beaten track but close to everything,our little civilised enclave.......a lot of the rest of the country is a sh!t hole but you don’t have to go there.
Just quiet enough however not too far from civilisation.
I believe places like Northumberland have very high satisfaction ratings.
I rate the place we live highly as we are just far enough from the beaten track but close to everything,our little civilised enclave.......a lot of the rest of the country is a sh!t hole but you don’t have to go there.
FonterraFarmer
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- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
New Zealand has a quite murky history and what is accepted is merely politically acceptable , if it is going to be taught compulsory at school then they should also have a section on intertribal warfare, executions, slavery and cannibalism, no point in teaching history if they are going to be selective.