I put in my Kiwi working holiday application the other day. Basically, because of my relationship with my girlfriend, I can apply to stay and work in New Zealand, but only once we've lived together for more than a year. As we haven't yet co-habited for longer than a year, it was recommended I apply to go out there and work under the working holiday scheme. We can then gather the rest of the evidence of our relationship while we are there, make the immigration officials gasp an almighty 'Ahhhhhhhhhh!' at our affections for one another and live happily ever after. That is, at least, the hope...
I initially applied for a 23 month visa, which allows me to work in NZ for 12 of those 23 months. I paid my £48 application fee and then went on to see the (hidden) cost of the medical examination I will have to go through if I am to head there for that amount of time. Some of them cost literally hundreds of pounds! It's not the blood test, chest x-ray or even the urinanalysisosisasosis that's scaring me, it's the dent in my savings! I have since enquired about the possibility of changing my application (the 12 month working holiday does not require a medical; merely for you to be a nice person in the eyes of the law), but I have to wait three working days for an answer because, strangely, it's not on their list of FAQs. I would have thought the FAQ department would have been flooded from the tears of thousands of 'wannabe adventurous poms' looking for a new thing out in NZ and backing down the minute they hear they have to have a needle stuck in their arm! Still, that's not why I may have changed my mind... Honest.
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