Thursday, May 27, 2010

Need to start

I just finished my assignment tonight and looked through the info. of travelling in NZ. There are soooo many places that sound interesting. I need to choose where I want to go coz I don't have much time and MONEY!

It's kinda hard to remember the places coz of their difficult names and all sound similar to me. I will start listing where I wanna go and see in both islands. Then start planing driving routes which I think I will follow what suggested online :)

I'm excited to travel again!

Monday, May 17, 2010

WOOOOO!!

I GOT IT!!!!!

After waiting for 13 days, I finally got my passport back with NZ visa (with single entry).

I'm sooooo happy, can't stop smiling ^____^

Now I can go there and give BIG cuddle to those cute sheep hehe.


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

It's not that easy.

Woke up in the morning by phone call from NZ embassy yesterday, made me little bit frustrated.

This woman told me that my document about university is not updated as it is only COE from university that I got last year. Well I knew that this might happen but I though student visa in Australia was reliable enough. But it's not!!!

I had to go to university to ask for document that says what school I'm in and when my course started and will finish. Then scanned and emailed that to her. It was easy to ask for this doc. though coz I thought that I would have to wait for a week or sth like that for one doc. to prove that I'm a student of RMIT. It turned out to be that this guy took about 10 mins and printed it out for me :)

Now I'm waiting (longer) and hope that everything will be alright.

Why is it so hard for me to go to NZ?!?!

Ps. This is not the 1st time that I've asked for NZ visa.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

The 1st Step

First of all, I am supposed to do 5 assignments (2 of individual 4,000 words report + 1 group 4,000 words report + 1 exercise that I have no idea about it + 1 10mins presentation) I have left for my last semester now but I'm so tired and sick of reading stuff. So I decide to start making this blog.

Going to NZ for Thai people who is studying in Australia needs visa!! Many people misunderstand (as they think NZ and Aus are the same country lol) that we don't need visa for NZ if we have Aus one already.

I am currently have Australian student visa which will expire in August. I sent the application for NZ visitor visa last week and hope I'll get my passport back with visa in next few days (as they says it might take about 7-10 days)

For some people who are not from visa free countries like me..this maybe useful for you if you wanna go to NZ. Here are all document I sent to them:

- Return tickets AUS - NZ (you can't just ask for booking paper frm agency as they have rules that NZ is like domestic flight so you have to pay money first to get the ticket to show embassy) this is so risky coz if you can't get visa that means you will lose all money you spent! ps. I sent the tickets of my Aus trip as well to show them that I have plan to travel in Aus after NZ.

- Passport (the real one and copied one)
- COE from university to show that I'm student here
- Bank statement NZ$1,000 per one month stay. You can go to bank and tell them that you need statement for asking visa. It's easy ;)
- Application that are printed from NZ embassy website

For copied of passport, bank statement and COE, you need to go to police station or pharmacy to get them certified and send ONLY copied ones to embassy.

The fees for asking visa is AUD$105 + about $3 for registered envelope that embassy will send your passport back to you. If you don't put envelope to the embassy, you have to add $5 more. I chose credit card payment which is so easy. Just put all info. they need in application.

After completing with application and document, it's time to send these to NZ embassy in Sydney. You can check where you have to send them too as it might be different by your nationality and where you are currently living. You can check on its website.

Lastly I hope that I will get visa and have fun in NZ!!!!

PS. here is the website http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/visit/...It's very easy process, no need to pay money for agency or anyone.