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My brother got a green card (through the diversity visa lottery) and he has type 1 diabetes.
He passed his medical and got approved no problems.

My brother got a green card (through the diversity visa lottery) and he has type 1 diabetes.
He passed his medical and got approved no problems.

Updating for successful early biometrics walk in on Wednesday (went with my husband in uniform - was hoping to make use of the military not requiring appointments in the Seattle office, and appears to have worked!)
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I suppose it depends what your dreams are
Mine are political in nature and at one point while I was at university I had my dream job working for my home country's government.
Obviously, the dream is now quashed, and I have to come up with new ones! Hopefully I will learn German while there for 4 years and add that to the resume, but what if I am out of my sphere of expertise for four years?
Even graduate school, if your husband had had to pcs, would you have stayed at school and done long distance? Or would you have tried to move your program to another university and hope they recognized your studies to date?
I guess, I've been used to planning my life in five year blocks, and then suddenly I fell in love and I am now making new goals with him included in it. There's no way I want to do long distance again (unless he was deployed and we had no choice). What about you girls? Would you go long distance for your dream job, your dream school?

Same for us.
We sent in an expedite request with the original petition by letter, then called the normal line (not military line- they were useless for us) and requested an expedite over the phone.
By the time we checked online a few days later, it said our petition had been approved and forwarded to NVC.
This was only a couple months ago - no one told us anything about military expedites not being approved!

With all due respect, it really depends on what you want to see and do! Unlike the above poster, I would go for the South Island if you were to pick one or the other, but as a native kiwi I would say you could do both islands in one trip if you chose what you wanted to see and use your time wisely! (NZ is beautiful to do by road, but you could see everything you would want to see in one trip if you do some air travel)
Mountains and natural beauty landscapes? South Island.
Cities? hot springs? North Island.
Cities, hot springs, mountains, beaches? Both! (And you can fly from Auckland to Christchurch in 1 hour 20 minutes - NZ is not a difficult place to get around and a flight on the best carrier is usually around $69 from AU > CHC).
March would be a better choice than October in my opinion, October can still be very winterish whereas March is the tail end of summer and generally more reliable weather.
Some ideas:
Day 1 - Fly into Auckland, get on the road and head to the Coromandel, stay for a day around there for the beautiful beaches and scenery. You could kayak here!
Day 3 - Back to Auckland, fly to Wellington (~$49 each) Spend a day exploring the eclectic city, have a yummy soy chai at a cafe, check out Te Papa for the national museum!
Day 5- Take the ferry from Wellington to Picton. Hire a car. Drive to Nelson. Spend a day exploring the beaches and town around the top of the South Island.
Day 7- Drive down to Christchurch stopping through the alps towns or the vineyards.
Day 8 - Explore Christchurch, either hop in car or on a plane and head south to Queenstown. Spend a few days exploring Southland (Queenstown, Franz Josef, Wanaka). This area is where you would want to be for hiking, kayaking etc. - all that you mentioned. So if you only want to go to one area then head straight to Southland.
Day 10 - fly back to Auckland for your flight home (~$79)
This is just an idea and are the highlights that I would say NZ has and what I love about NZ and what I would want my husband to see when we visit again next year!

With all due respect, it really depends on what you want to see and do! Unlike the above poster, I would go for the South Island if you were to pick one or the other, but as a native kiwi I would say you could do both islands in one trip if you chose what you wanted to see and use your time wisely! (NZ is beautiful to do by road, but you could see everything you would want to see in one trip if you do some air travel)
Mountains and natural beauty landscapes? South Island.
Cities? hot springs? North Island.
Cities, hot springs, mountains, beaches? Both! (And you can fly from Auckland to Christchurch in 1 hour 20 minutes - NZ is not a difficult place to get around and a flight on the best carrier is usually around $69 from AU > CHC).
March would be a better choice than October in my opinion, October can still be very winterish whereas March is the tail end of summer and generally more reliable weather.
Some ideas:
Day 1 - Fly into Auckland, get on the road and head to the Coromandel, stay for a day around there for the beautiful beaches and scenery. You could kayak here!
Day 3 - Back to Auckland, fly to Wellington (~$49 each) Spend a day exploring the eclectic city, have a yummy soy chai at a cafe, check out Te Papa for the national museum!
Day 5- Take the ferry from Wellington to Picton. Hire a car. Drive to Nelson. Spend a day exploring the beaches and town around the top of the South Island.
Day 7- Drive down to Christchurch stopping through the alps towns or the vineyards.
Day 8 - Explore Christchurch, either hop in car or on a plane and head south to Queenstown. Spend a few days exploring Southland (Queenstown, Franz Josef, Wanaka). This area is where you would want to be for hiking, kayaking etc. - all that you mentioned. So if you only want to go to one area then head straight to Southland.
Day 10 - fly back to Auckland for your flight home (~$79)
This is just an idea and are the highlights that I would say NZ has and what I love about NZ and what I would want my husband to see when we visit again next year!