After nearly 11 months of waiting, two weeks ago, totally out of the blue we received an email that our citizenship application had been accepted! No “we’ve assigned your application to a case officer”, no “we have started verifying your information”., just “you’re in”!
So as of tomorrow, when our citizenship certificates will be printed, we will be New Zealand citizens. Normally you don’t become “official” until you attend a citizenship ceremony (where you receive the certificate, along with a native tree seedling), but because of Covid the ceremonies have been suspended and they just courier you the document.
So aside from getting our NZ passports (which you can do once you have your certificate), our formal immigration journey is pretty much complete. No more applications and no more transferring visas from one passport to another.
I’m not sure what that means for this blog which I started to document our immigration journey so that other who are interested can see how it went for us, and so we have it written down for posterity. I haven’t been very good about posting consistently, but I expect I’ll probably continue to post every once in a while – we definitely feel settled now, but we still get surprised by things every now and then.
Kiwi Bound 