{"id":216892705,"date":"2006-03-21T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/no8wire.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/21\/one-acronym-begets-another\/"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:07:43","slug":"one-acronym-begets-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892705","title":{"rendered":"One acronym begets another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/uploaded_images\/ITA-703632.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/uploaded_images\/ITA-795342.jpg\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the last five weeks, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/2006\/02\/dont-blink-it-might-disappear.html\">previously mentioned<\/a> EOI (Expression of Interest) has undergone a metamorphosis.  Today, what left this house as bits and bytes &#8211; and a large credit card payment &#8211; returned in the form of a large courier package containing a large bundle of papers, forms and supporting material which makes up the New Zealand Immigration Service&#8217;s ITA (Invitation To Apply) &#8211; along with a request for another, much larger credit card payment.<\/p>\n<p>If we thought that we&#8217;d broken the back of the bureaucracy involved in securing residency, a quick review of the covering letter and checklist put us straight.  As well as having to provide panel medical reports, X-rays and police check documentation within the next ten days (before their six month lifespan expires &#8211; we had them for a while), we now have to provide all the &#8216;proof&#8217; documentation to support our claims in the EOI.  This might sound fairly straightforward but I have discovered that one of the companies I worked for in the &#8217;90s has been swallowed up by another and getting proof of employment might be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, my heart sank upon realising that we&#8217;re in for another extended bout of paperchasing and cajoling folks into providing evidenciary documents.  Being in the middle of two very heavy weeks at work, I am finding it hard to work up the enthusiasm right now, even thought the ultimate goal is what we&#8217;ve spent over two years working towards.  Recognising this, I have decided to stop beating myself up, stuff it all back into the courier pouch, grab a beer and take a night off, as has SWMBO.  What that really means is that she&#8217;s surfing real estate web sites for houses and I&#8217;m catching up on email and paperwork.  I suspect I&#8217;ll last all of 30 minutes before I give up and wander off to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/house\/\">House<\/a>, followed by the superb James Spader\/William Shatner double act in <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/bostonlegal\/\">Boston Legal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last five weeks, our previously mentioned EOI (Expression of Interest) has undergone a metamorphosis. Today, what left this house as bits and bytes &#8211; and a large credit card payment &#8211; returned in the form of a large courier package containing a large bundle of papers, forms and supporting material which makes up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216892705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216892705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893077,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892705\/revisions\/216893077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216892705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216892705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216892705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}