Oh dear. From high up high, to low down low. It turns out that after being selected from the pool, we have been docked 10 points by the New Zealand Immigration Service, and therefore thrown back in the pool with just 125 points - and a significantly slimmer chance of being selected again. D'oh!
Having communicated with a very helpful lady at the NZIS we now understand exactly what went wrong with the process, and are working towards a way of getting plucked from the pool once again. We are only allowed to stay in the pool for six months at a time after which we can re-submit (for a fee $) and hope we get pulled out then. Hopefully, we can update our Expression of Interest before that and get cracking on the process asap.
It's really frustrating at the moment because there is literally nothing we can do to move the process forward. We have already sent our qualifications off to be assessed and they are on their way back, and we are registering with the New Zealand Teaching Council so are stuck! Aaaah!
We will keep plodding on and working away because this is the dream! It's gonna happen!
Just wanted to say good luck with the process. We are planning on submitting our EOI in a month or so (just waiting for passport renewals)so will be playing the waiting game too
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I just found you on the immigration forum and I am in sort of the same predicament as your wife. I am a qualified Elementary School and Special Education Teacher with a degree from the States (I'm originally born in Ireland). I applied under the Early Childhood category because my degree goes down as far as pre-k which is 3/4 year olds. However, unlike your wife, I only have working experience the past 10 years with grades 1-5. Right now they took my points from 130 down to 105 taking away both my qualification and work experience. I've written an email asking to change over to the Special Needs category at least to give me 10 more points, but I will still lack the work experience. I'm living in Sweden now and been teaching here the past 10 years.
ReplyDeleteI hope it works out for you and any advice or if you get anywhere I'd love to know :)