I got my visa!

I got a letter from NZIS today - my visa is "Approved in Principle"! At last!

The only things left to do now are pay the £105 levy and send my passport to London to get the visa stickers put into it. I am so relieved. It took nearly a full year to get to this point, but at last I'm past the final hurdle, assuming that I get the passport to London before the end of November.

Skry still has to get his police reports re-done, and have his telephone interview, but hopefully that will go as smoothly as mine did.

Now that it's official, I have also handed in my notice at work, and will be finished there by the end of June. Looking forward to a summer of doing my own thing...

Skry's not sick after all

Well this is nothing that we didn't already know, but the NZIS doctors have said that Skry isn't sick after all. He sent over the results of the blood tests, and they are happy that he's in good health and he doesn't need to have the ultrasound. This is a huge relief to both of us, of course, and also means that he doesn't have the expense and further delays of more tests. Great news.