Permanent residency NZ

[BushFly]

I'm a swede and have this dream of moving to NZ and fly for Air New Zealand in their turbo prop fleet.

I submitted my application but ticked the box "i do not have permanent residency in NZ"

I got a email saying that i need permanent residency to be considered for the job.

Now here comes the big issue. On NZ immigration site, the only aplicable visa I found for "permanent residency" was only for two years AND you must have a job offer from a NZ company before you get the visa.
It looks lika a big catch 22!

Does anyone know how I can get my visa for permanent residency, get the job at Air New Zealand and get my dream?

[ZKSUJ]

Your best bet would be to go onto the NZ Immigration website and see how you can qualify. You need a certain amount of 'points' before you can qualify for Permanent Residency

[waren9]

Or you could just marry someone. Kiwi's are a liberal lot. They're even in to civil unions nowadays.

On a reciprocal note, how does one (Kiwi, over the age of 28) manage to get EU residency withoout a job?

[Mustaphabeer]

Waren9 - Marrying a European might be a good start :}

[Cargo744]

Marrying a kiwi... Good luck!