I’m a Kiwi now!
Printed From: OHbaby!
Category: General Chat
Forum Name: General Chat
Forum Description: For mums, dads, parents-to-be, grandparents, friends -- you name it! And you name the topic you want to chat about!
URL: https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9967
Printed Date: 09 October 2025 at 5:38pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.05 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: I’m a Kiwi now!
Posted By: Katherine
Subject: I’m a Kiwi now!
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 11:39am
|
Well, now you're all stuck with me -- I received New Zealand citizenship last evening, in the most ridiculous, amateurish, unrehearsed, disjointed and non-special ceremony I've ever attended in my life, for anything. It was so awful, I actually wrote a letter to the citizenship people complaining about it. But it's over, thank goodness. No more queueing at NZ Immigration at 2am; no more paying exorbitant fees to get various visas and permits; no more proving that yes, I am in a legitimate marriage; no more defining "permanent residency" to random shopkeepers who hear my accent and assume I'm a tourist; no more having to go in to looooooooooong queue at the airport after travelling overseas...
Come on, help me think of some more reasons why it's good to be a Kiwi! |
Replies:
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 11:49am
|
Coz it means you get to back the All Blacks?
Coz you don't have to prove to an immigration officer that you have 'consumated' your marriage? Congrats on becoming a Kiwi! LMAO, I think you described the ceremony better in your text last night, but I won't repeat it here  -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
|
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:18pm
|
but that wont change your accent!!! Bugger!!! LOL!!!
Congrats on becoming a KIWI.....Good on ya mate!
|
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:24pm
|
Congratulation on becoming a kiwi. Welcome to the club its a very exclusive one only 5 million members.
Best things about being a Kiwi. Supporting the best rugby team in the world - as in they play other countries. You will have to use Watties Tomato Sauce - not Heinz Ketchup. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:29pm
Congrats Katherine! Do you like BBQs and pavlovas?  ------------- |
maya wrote:Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:30pm
Haha Fleury!!!  ------------- |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:38pm
I kid you not! I went to uni with a kiwi who married Japanese girl and they were asked for proof that they had consumated their marriage. They didn't have kids, I mean, how the heck do you prove that  He was so insulted.------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
|
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:26pm
| congrats! |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:30pm
Big congrats. Hubby only submmitted the freaking EOI yesterday. So we have all that jazz to do in the coming months and years.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
http://lilypie.com"> 
|
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:45pm
|
Hey, you're right -- I forgot about this. When I applied for permanent residency, one of the criteria on the application was that we had to have "evidence of a physical relationship." My husband's uncle was so incensed by this, he rang up the immigration office and asked them if DH and I should make a sex video and send it in! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:53pm
now you can move to oz and be a resident there too... |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:06pm
|
LOL, GandT, don't think I haven't been mulling that over... Nah, I love OHbaby! too much. I'll be staying. For a while, at least. I need to cuddle Baby GandT!!!
|
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:09pm
|
Yaaaayyyy for citizenship! Congrats. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:16pm
|
Congrats. I just got my citizenship from my mum sent to me from DIA no special ceremony. But then again i'm not willing to give up my citizenship from across the ditch. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:33pm
|
I love BBQs but I suck at making pavs (mine always implode). Eating them, I'm good at. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:17pm
You and Willie would get on great, the man is a huge sauce fan and he doesn't care if it's Heinz or Watties... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
|
Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:19pm
|
Congrats!!!! ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:24pm
|
now if only you had cookie dough icecream and cinnamon rolls to hand I would come live at your place!!!
|
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 10:12am
|
Congratz!
Now you too can participate in being the brunt of all the 5 million kiwi/sheep jokes out there. The funny thing is most people live in cities and don't know what a sheep is like. Now you can also: Wear jandals (not flip-flops or thongs - even though those are fun to wear - so I've heard). Play around in a schoolyard that has sheep droppings on it. Drink Tui (yeah right). Become part of the community of no-tall-poppy-ers. Then try to be that tall poppy. Get called bro, even though your not a bro, and don't want to be a bro, but are one anyway. Live on land that you bought, but you find out later it isn't yours. Use no.8 wire (for everything - and when that doesn't work use duct tape.) Have the most stunning woman as your countries leader. Eat your weetbix with tomato sauce, or marmite whichever gets there first. (Btw this is supposed to be a humorous post, but it could be taken wrong. Please take it as funny thing.) Seriously though, congratulations!  ------------- Defending the male species since 1980 
|
Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 7:42pm
lol!!! That's great!!
Congrats Katherine  ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
|