Kiwi in Sydney, waiting on K1, moving to NZ.

[SweetDelish 38]

not sure if this is an issue or not.

I'm a NZ citizen, and have been living in Australia for the last 12.5 years. We filed I29f in May, and I found out a few weeks ago that my work is sending me on assignment to NZ for 5 months from Tuesday. so I'll be resident for tax purposes in Australia (my company looks after all my needs from Sydney; pay, expenses, tax etc) we don't have an NZ office, but my client is based in NZ, I'll be living in serviced apartment in Auckland, paid for by the client, and will be able to come back to Sydney when I need to, my household items are here in storage. I've put in a mail redirection to my friends house in Sydney, of which I'll stay at her house when I return from my assignment until I go to Hawaii.

I'm not sure if its even an issue, or I should check with the embassy, if I should be switching countries for my interview. its no problem for me to fly back to Sydney to do my medical and interview. if it makes no difference, I'll leave it as is.

but does anyone have any insight?

[VanessaTony 3,567]

That's an interesting question. Personally seeing it's only 5 months I wouldn't bother changing it to NZ because by the time you get the interview you'll probably be back in Aus. So I would consider your trip to NZ a holiday and leave everything as is with the knowledge you will need to be back in Aus for the medical do your police check and interview.

Seriously though, you filed in May so it's been 2 month presently (maybe). You're leaving shortly for NZ and are gone for 5 months taking you to around October/November making it 7 months from filing by the time you come back. It takes about 5 months to get NOA2 at the moment so you'll be back in Aus around interview time anyway. You can also delay returning P3 so ensure you're back living in Aus if it works out that you're close to returning anyway.

[SweetDelish 38]

Thanks Vanessa, the more I thought about it, the more I was coming to that conclusion myself. I return on 1 December to Sydney, I'm already in NZ now.

I was just concerned that with not currently living in Australia, that it would change things, I do have a trip booked to Sydney in late September to see Madame Butterfly at Sydney Opera House (I'm making my company pay for that trip as I already had tickets!), so I figured I could do the police check then, and I was just about to search to see if I could get my medical done then too. then I don't need to fluff about with that when I get back. If not, then I can just as easily book the medical for my first day back in Sydney.

[SweetDelish 38]

By the looks of things, having the medical done without case number depends on the doctor you go to.