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I'm freezing cold and I want to move somewhere VERY HOT WITH BEACHES AND SUNSHINE.
Okay. Here's how it works. After extensive research on the incredibly annoying and ridiculous to navigate NZ Immigration website and having read through the Self-Assessment Guide For Residence in New Zealand, it turns out that:
1) In order to get my residency I have to apply under the Skilled Migrant stream, and submit an expression of interest. This includes a form made up of criteria, each worth a certain number of points, that have to add up to at least 100 points in order for my EOI to be accepted and go into a pool. If my EOI is picked out of the pool, they send me an invitation to apply for residency.
2)EOI's with 140 points or more are automatically picked from the pool. Assuming I:
a. graduate, I get 5 bonus points for having a qualification in an identified future growth area and 50 pts. for my degree
b. can get a job/offer of skilled employment (worth 50 pts. alone) that:
i. correlates to my qualification and is therefore in an identified future growth area, I get another 5 bonus points
ii. is outside Auckland, I get another 5 bonus points
c. Am between the ages of 20 and 29, which I am
I then get a total of 150 points.
3)The Level 5 qualification is worth the same amount of points as the Level 6 qualification.
It is my goal to get them all. If I fall short a few points... I still have a really good chance of getting my residency.
Since that's the case, I'm going to apply for my residency after this year at the D&A, get a work visa to hold me over and take six months or so to go somewhere warm(er) and work while I'm waiting for my application to go through. Then the tentative plan is to go back to school for a Communications degree after I have my residency so I don't have to pay international student fees anymore. This is all going to happen without a doubt, exactly as I just said because the world will submit to my mighty will no matter what.
Though I'm considering going to work for the NZ government so at some point in my life I can COMPETELY FUCKING REDO the NZ Immigration website. It is SO CRAP. How the fuck do you navigate that damn thing without opening up a million freaking tabs in Firefox to try to find what you're looking for?? It makes NO SENSE OMG.
I have my mid-year exhibition coming up. I'm like, freaking out over having everything set to hang by the 25th and handing in my assignments on time. I don't know what Ross is thinking, but he has deserted us first years to go work with the second years (who have their own damn tutor) RIGHT AT THE END OF THE TERM. He's left us in the hands of his TA, Susan, who is nice enough I guess, but rather useless. Even more useless than Ross, and not quite as nice. Yesterday I asked her how many photographs we were required to have in the exhibition, and she had NO CLUE. And then... HE'S GOING AWAY FOR A MONTH DURING NEXT TERM.
That is so sad. I can't wait for this year to be over, and I won't be sad to say goodbye to the D&A. What a load of horseshit.
There is a stand up comedy competition at a bar around the corner from me coming up, and sadly I can't do it because I have too much school work to prepare for it. *sigh* But Sam's friend Josh has decided to go for it after I told him that I did it, and I'm excited for him.
But... plans are in the works, at least. And I think that's about it.
Honest to God, last night I had a dream about a girl who had a map of the world in her irises and it being all a big deal. Then Annie had her car stolen.
Okay. Here's how it works. After extensive research on the incredibly annoying and ridiculous to navigate NZ Immigration website and having read through the Self-Assessment Guide For Residence in New Zealand, it turns out that:
1) In order to get my residency I have to apply under the Skilled Migrant stream, and submit an expression of interest. This includes a form made up of criteria, each worth a certain number of points, that have to add up to at least 100 points in order for my EOI to be accepted and go into a pool. If my EOI is picked out of the pool, they send me an invitation to apply for residency.
2)EOI's with 140 points or more are automatically picked from the pool. Assuming I:
a. graduate, I get 5 bonus points for having a qualification in an identified future growth area and 50 pts. for my degree
b. can get a job/offer of skilled employment (worth 50 pts. alone) that:
i. correlates to my qualification and is therefore in an identified future growth area, I get another 5 bonus points
ii. is outside Auckland, I get another 5 bonus points
c. Am between the ages of 20 and 29, which I am
I then get a total of 150 points.
3)The Level 5 qualification is worth the same amount of points as the Level 6 qualification.
It is my goal to get them all. If I fall short a few points... I still have a really good chance of getting my residency.
Since that's the case, I'm going to apply for my residency after this year at the D&A, get a work visa to hold me over and take six months or so to go somewhere warm(er) and work while I'm waiting for my application to go through. Then the tentative plan is to go back to school for a Communications degree after I have my residency so I don't have to pay international student fees anymore. This is all going to happen without a doubt, exactly as I just said because the world will submit to my mighty will no matter what.
Though I'm considering going to work for the NZ government so at some point in my life I can COMPETELY FUCKING REDO the NZ Immigration website. It is SO CRAP. How the fuck do you navigate that damn thing without opening up a million freaking tabs in Firefox to try to find what you're looking for?? It makes NO SENSE OMG.
I have my mid-year exhibition coming up. I'm like, freaking out over having everything set to hang by the 25th and handing in my assignments on time. I don't know what Ross is thinking, but he has deserted us first years to go work with the second years (who have their own damn tutor) RIGHT AT THE END OF THE TERM. He's left us in the hands of his TA, Susan, who is nice enough I guess, but rather useless. Even more useless than Ross, and not quite as nice. Yesterday I asked her how many photographs we were required to have in the exhibition, and she had NO CLUE. And then... HE'S GOING AWAY FOR A MONTH DURING NEXT TERM.
That is so sad. I can't wait for this year to be over, and I won't be sad to say goodbye to the D&A. What a load of horseshit.
There is a stand up comedy competition at a bar around the corner from me coming up, and sadly I can't do it because I have too much school work to prepare for it. *sigh* But Sam's friend Josh has decided to go for it after I told him that I did it, and I'm excited for him.
But... plans are in the works, at least. And I think that's about it.
Honest to God, last night I had a dream about a girl who had a map of the world in her irises and it being all a big deal. Then Annie had her car stolen.