Moving to New Zealand?
What makes a person or a family to move thousands of kilometres to a distant country in the South Pacific i.e. New Zealand? There are a number of reasons ranging from the clean and green environment to the wide open spaces. But careful thought has to be given, with allowance for proper research, before one takes the final decision of migrating.
New Zealand has a lot to offer in terms of its lifestyle, good education and health system, but the immigration process is not a straightforward route. Applicants have to deal with changing immigration policies, variable time frames and a variety of visa categories to choose from. Complete information and proper advice are therefore required. Various websites and sources provide information about New Zealand and the Immigration process, but what does this mean to you as an individual or family? Also, how does the current economic and social environment in New Zealand apply to you as a migrant?
This website attempts to provide suitable information to enable you to answer some of your queries regarding the what, why and how of the NZ immigration process. The information is tailored to applicants from India and the Indian sub-continent.
What does it mean for immigrants from India?
Applicants from India traditionally come to New Zealand to work or study or live. People from India choose New Zealand because of the difference it offers in terms of less population, less pollution, honest and open Government processes, high quality education and low cost health care. But all this by itself should not be enough to get one packing their bags to move to New Zealand. Thinking through ones long term plans is important and that means one has to ask the question -“what do you expect from New Zealand?” This is a crucial question to answer as the next steps and the subsequent process is dependant on this being properly answered.
Careful research and assessment of options will help avoiding disappointment. Research and assessment would include knowing what New Zealand has to offer and more crucially what it can’t. Also, scoping the various categories for obtaining visas and migrating is important.
