To enable us to complete an assessment of your circumstances we need you to complete our assessment questionnaire providing details of yourself and your family, qualifications, work experience etc.

Follow this Assessment Questionnaire link to complete the assessment and return it to us. We will carry out the assessment for you free of charge and at no obligation.

If you do not qualify under current criteria or -

If you do not presently qualify but may after gaining further work experience or completing qualifications or - obtaining skilled employment in New Zealand.

Whether you do qualify and we would be able to obtain New Zealand permanent residence for you.

As we are a performance based firm we do not advise you to proceed with a residency application unless we believe we can obtain residency for you.

New Zealand Government residency procedures in terms of the Immigration Act 1991 are on the face of it straightforward. However the policy can be a mine field. When we accept your instructions it is our brief to guide you through the requirements for residency approval. We would not accept your case otherwise.

Our experience with expression of interest and residency applications is that their success and time of processing is directly related to the quality of preparation of the application and supporting evidence and submissions.

Our submissions covering your application are lodged at the time the application is sent to the New Zealand Immigration Service for processing.

Our experience with clients who have completed a self assessment and lodged their own expression of interest and been declined is that they have misinterpreted the policy or have not been in possession of the full facts and the requirements of the policy. Unfortunately, at that stage it is frequently to late to assist these clients.

An assessment and representation by professionals experienced in New Zealand Immigration is strongly recommended.

All information that you give to us is given on a strictly confidential basis.

We ask you to complete an assessment questionnaire form to enable us to carry out an assessment for you to see whether or not you would succeed with a residency application.

On completion of a positive assessment you must then advise us that you wish to retain us to represent you. The following procedures will then apply:

A Fee Agreement is completed.

The application forms are completed by us and sent to you. The application includes the principal applicant (who can either be the husband or the wife) and all dependent children (under 24 years of age).

You are asked to obtain all necessary documents to support the application and provided with a list of these.

You are asked to obtain police clearance certificates and undergo medicals and if necessary the IELTS test.

All documents are then returned to us for compilation.

We then prepare our submissions on the application and the submissions and application are lodged with the New Zealand Immigration Service.

Processing times vary from immigration branch to immigration branch. We can advise you of the time of the estimated completion time when your application is lodged.

In some cases an interview is required.

On approval of residency we arrange for endorsement of residents visas in your passports. The visas are valid for travel to New Zealand for one year. You must arrive in New Zealand within that time to obtain your residents permits. Residents permits will automatically be stamped in your passport on arrival in New Zealand.

When a residents visa is issued, you will also be issued with a two year returning resident visa. This is a multiple re-entry type visa enabling you to come and go from New Zealand as frequently as you wish. The extension of that visa is dependent on the length of time you will spend in New Zealand within that two year period.

If you spent at least 6 months in each of the previous two years in New Zealand the residence visa will be renewed for an indefinite period.

No financial help is provided to you by the New Zealand Government. You are expected to be able to support yourselves financially either through your own resources or through an offer of employment or family members - at least for the first 24 months.

Qualification for various Government benefits such as superannuation, unemployment benefits, sickness benefits require a qualifying residency period.

Citizenship is available on application after residing in New Zealand for three years.

For further information contact bob@ivisalaw.co.nz