Moving to Australian as New Zealand permanent residents
Can we move to Australia on our New Zealand permanent residency visa? Or do we need to be Citizens living in New Zealand for 5 years plus first? We emigrated from South Africa recently and are in the process of getting permanent residency in New Zealand, therefore we're wondering if we can move to Australia when we have received our NZ PR?
No you can't move to Australia on PR you have to be a New Zealand Citizen and yes you are right the qualifying time is 5 years to get NZ Citizenship
Trying to use New Zealand as a shortcut and backdoor to get into Australia. You should be ashamed of yourselves. All this does is gives us hard working real kiwis a bad name over here.
Our friends received nz citizen ship in about 1 year.
We are also in NZ originally from South Africa. Immigrating is damn hard work and stresseful! We are now going to OZ after being in NZ for 6 yrs. Unfortunately you arent told that you will not earn liveable money in NZ as a skilled person, will never afford to buy a home etc.... I guess whilst we love NZ, we need to live & retire. When Oz offers the money & opportunity you have to consider it. So moving there hasnt been an easy decision, by no means. Citizenship in NZ takes more than a year after application & also costs a heap of money AGAIN!. i dont think anyone would consider immigrating again if you can help it.