{"id":1639,"date":"2016-12-21T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwheeltravel.com\/?p=1639\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:46:46","slug":"obtaining-a-whv-new-zealand-and-having-a-motor-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwheeltravel.com\/en\/obtaining-a-whv-new-zealand-and-having-a-motor-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Obtaining a WHV New Zealand and having a motor disability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually obtaining a New Zealand WHV is quite easy and fast for a French person. In my case, this process had lot more hurdles. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 19th 2015
\n<\/span><\/strong>My day at work is over. I can\u2019t wait to go back home and apply for my Working Holiday Visa in New Zealand. I am all excited. I go directly on the New Zealand immigration website<\/a> and I create a account in order to able to apply. 10 minutes later, I had completed the application form and my application is sent. If everything goes well I will have an answer in a few days. My judicial record is empty, I don\u2019t have any immigration issues in the past and I didn\u2019t travel into a hazardous country recently. So why should I worry ? In this form there is a lot of Yes\/No questions and one of them is \u00ab do you have an mental or motor disability ? \u00bb.  <\/span>A wheelchair will not go unnoticed at the border so I answered \u00ab yes \u00bb. I explained that I have a motor disability which imply walking with a cane for short walks and using a wheelchair for longer distances. I also informed them that I already own all of these and that I don\u2019t need help in my daily life. At that time, I understood that immigration just wanted to know whether or not I am independent, if I can work and if my disability will cause some medical costs in New Zealand. <\/span><\/p>\n