Time to Submit Expression Of Interest

Pushing on with EOI:
Well, Its all systems go now that our EOI has been processed and was successful and showing selected on the NZ immigration website, so they have now sent out our pack for (ITA) Invitation To Apply for residency which arrived in the post Monday 12th June 2006. With my job offer arriving also today from the RNZAF we can now start to put together the ITA pack which has a checklist to work through which makes things a little easier, we have had to go down the (SMP) Skilled Migrant Programme route as we are applying for Permanent Residency and have a short window of opportunity to get this in as my drafting date has been approved for October 9th 2006. Now the big push is on to gather all the relevant work experience, original certificates for my qualifications, with medical checks and police checks to get in order which should be possible to do within three to four weeks hopefully no delays.We have our medicals booked for Thursday 15th June at The Manor Hospital in Oxford which is part of the Nuffield Hospital Group and spoke to a Dr Armstrong who came across very calm about the whole process, even gave me the code number for the underground car parking which surprised me......must be part of the package I assured myself. Reality is starting to kick in now, here we are starting the whole process all over again just like it was way back in 2003 but this time its not a two year working visa I am going for. This time its Permanent Residency on the back of a job offer from the RNZAF, myself and my wife Sherren think this is a worthwhile and challenging career move which will see us both through the remaining years of our working lives rather than spending them back in blighty. It often scares me to think would I rather be working until I am 68 in blighty for my pension rights, or could I spend 15 years in the RNZAF which will make me 59 and retire in a beautiful part of the southern hemisphere !! Enough said I think I have answered that one..........