Our ITAs arrived!

Skry and I got back from the Netherlands two days ago, and our ITAs were here waiting for us! Well, his was -- I had to collect mine from the post office today, as it required a signature, and there was nobody at my house to sign for it when the postman called.

I am really surprised that the ITAs arrived so quickly. They are dated 17 July, which was only a few weeks after our EOIs were submitted. I fully expected us to be waiting two or three months before we heard anything, but it looks like we've been put in the fast lane for some reason. Maybe the London branch of the NZIS is catching up on its backlog.

It's all good news, anyway. Now we need to start getting our documentation together. The biggest two things are the police certificates (we both need certificates both from the UK and from the Republic of Ireland) and the medical checks. There are two immigration panel doctors available in Belfast, so we'll have to see about getting an appointment with one of them. We've got less than four months to get everything together, so the clock seems to be ticking quite loudly already!