Well my papers are on the way back from New Zealand and I'm expecting them to arrive this week. I've also written to the Teaching Council since I had received a mail saying they confirmed receiving my application the 10th of May, to see if there's any chance of getting my papers back sooner from them rather than the 4-6 weeks their standard letter says.
I picked up my I passport this past Friday. Another document that's been out of my hand for weeks since I needed to update my name change on it since getting married so I couldn't wait to get it back. I still hadn't received the phone call from the embassy when finished work to say it had arrived so I decided to go wait in the embassy until DHL arrived, but turned out when I got off the bus, I got the call from the embassy to say it had arrived! While there I even made sure to get a certified copy so I can send that off with our ITA application - didn't even need to pay for it!
The medical process itself was easy, painless and quick ..... until I told them I need my papers back to send in with my application. The doctor's office has refused saying they will post them directly to immigration as they "always" do. I knew they had no experience with NZ since first they had an address in Germany where they were going to post the medicals and second they kept mentioning Australia. I tried forwarding an email I got from immigration confirming it was me that was supposed to send back the medicals, but no that didn't seem to work. I wrote to immigration (in London) to explain the problem I am having getting my medicals back and they have now written a nice letter to the doctor/office explaining it's Australia where the papers are not to be returned to the patients, not NZ. They requested the doctor to get in touch with me and return my medicals. So tomorrow I'll see if the doctor's agrees. It's not a big worry in itself because in worse case senario, I can take my application when it's complete to the doctor's office and let them put the medicals in their and watch them post it. Still, I'd really like to just get them myself and post them.
I'm so excited and can't wait to get everything back so it can all be posted back and then the real waiting process begins!
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