27/10 - EOI submitted
28/10 - EOI Selected
16/11 - ITA Issued
11/12 - ITA sent to Shanghai
14/12 - ITA Lodgement
11/01 - IQA requested and other information
20/01 - IQA request submitted
22/01 - IQA documents sent over
26/01 - IQA documents received (File set up)
03/02 - IQA request for extra documents
22/02 - Extra documents sent to Shanghai
29/02 - Extra documents sent to NZQA
30/03 - NZQA assignment and evaluation
01/04 - NZQA complete and couriered
20/04 - CO interview
Meaning those in bold red is what have happened since my last post. Phew! Seems like a long list. In a nutshell, on the 11th of January, our CO requested for 3 things
The 3 things are :
- further proof of partnership dating more than 12 months. apparently its not enough for me to just send our marriage cert ( of 3 years) and a child's birth cert :(
- a letter from our study of institution (Inti College Sarawak) proving that our course was done entirely in english as medium of instruction
- this was the biggest blow...IQA was requested for both our degrees!
When i received this email from the CO, i was a bit disappointed. Proof of partnership i can dig out all letters and what -nots with both our names addressed to the same address in the past 18 months la. Letter proving that English was the medium of instruction was a little tricky to say the least. Cos for one, INTI COLLEGE SARAWAK DOESNT EXIST ANYMORE!
So i called up the old number of INTI College Sarawak and the guy picking up asked me to call INTI College Nilai since they are the ones who are taking care of our enrolment records now. Got in touch with a lady from the admissions office and she got me the letter pretty fast (in 2 weeks time) although i had to convince her i was from INTI College Sarawak and all that.
Truth be told, I tried to get a "shortcut" around getting an IQA for our degrees. IQA costs NZD746 per person to apply! That's a lot of money ok. Since our degree was a 3+0 Degree programme with our degree awarded by an Australian University, I was referred to INTI College Subang who takes care of this 3+0 Degree Programme now since our previous college is no more. Wah this is where the complication starts.
Anyway long story cut short, we still had to get an IQA lah. Cos NZ Immig only accepts an official IQA (International Qualifications Assessment) as proof that our degree is "comparable" to a bachelor's degree of computer science obtained in NZ. How is it possible leh!!! (we asked) Our Degree from AUSTRALIAN university boh! Australia and NZ so near leh! And our university was actually in the list of universities exempted from IQA in the NZ Immig website.
Anyway, I posted a few questions in the enz forum and snooped around and found that they have recently changed the rule that all qualifications obtained off-campus (from the list of universities exempted) must get an IQA regardless (source : http://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsmanual/46247.htm)
So an IQA we applied, and parted with our NZD746 x 2! Sobs!
Submitted on the 26th of January, and we waited and waited and on the 3rd of February, we finally got a reply from NZQA....to ask for extra documents :|
Now they want an official letter from our institution of study (which doesnt exist anymore, refer above) stating that we had credits transferred from INTI College to the awarding university. Again the emailing and the phone calls to INTI started. Called up INTI College Subang who is currently taking care of this programme now but the lady told me they do not have our enrolment records. And they need to cross-check with INTI College Nilai :(
This went on for like 3 weeks until i couldnt stand it anymore and contacted INTI College Nilai directly who gave me my letter within a week! Sent everything to NZQA, and it took them another 1 month to process everything and couriered everything back to us. Quickly contacted our CO in shanghai that we finally have our IQA (yippee!!!!) and she immediately scheduled an interview for us next week!
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