Statutory Declaration for New Zealand Physio Registration

[Denise]

Hi Pico,

Yes all papers you are using as evidence need to be notified.

If you are going to send copies of Documents (diplomas, certificates, transcripts, etc) they need to be certified. If the original documents are in English, I am pretty positive you can mail them all to your family to be certified in your home country. If in another language , you will need official translation.

Ok, now about the ''less important documents'', you can have them notified by asking a staff from your university to sign and date them or a former employer, when applicable. For example, I asked my course director to sign the copy of my final thesis; lecturers to sign presentations. In all cases, I also asked for a short declaration saying that ‘I’ have done such paper/ presentation. (It also included their position at the time, the subject, the number of pages- if applicable, and the date it was presented.)
So, having all those documents/papers set in your portifolio, I believe the lawyer will only be necessary to sign that page (39 – Statutory Declaration) from the application form.
Having a notarization body from your home country and a lawyer from Canada to deal with your documents should not be a problem to the NZ Board.

If by any chance, the Board does not accept one or other document, or if incorrect, they will let you know by sending a letter and it will give you sufficient information to do it right next time. So, do not get frustrated if that happens, it seems quite common...

[Pico]

Hi Denise,

Thank you so much. You have solved one of my concerns and worries about the application.

As I had graduated over 7 years, I am not sure how much support/assistance I can get from the university apart from the 'standard' stuff, i.e. syllabus, transcripts. However, I think I will send all the important and less important documents back to my home country to have them notified all at once. I have just started doing the portfolio for the application. Still a long way to go

Thanks again.

[Denise]

Hi there Pico,

think of all you can gather as evidence from your postgraduate expericence: publications, seminars, case studies, short courses, postgraduate courses, referee's letters, assessment forms, research projects, voluntary work,etc.

Pico, knowing you are currently in Canada, do you have a licence to work there as a physiotherapist? Because if you do, you could apply for a registration in WA, Australia and after that, apply for any other Australiand state which has an agreement with New Zealand and then, apply for New Zealand registration. I am almost sure that this information is correct. It seems like a long way to go but it might be much less painfull!

[Pico]

Thanks Denise.

I am currently working in Canada but I was not Canadian-trained. I went through the credentialling process and the national exams.

I tried to email WA board and just mentioned that I was registered in Canada (without saying I wasn't Canadian-trained). The reply I got was a standard one: Only physio graduates from the universities in the list can directly register in WA. Actually the list contains all the universities which train physio in Canada. In my credentialling process, my qualification was quoted as 'equivalent to Canadian-trained'. So, logically, I thought I was elligible to register. However, it seems that officially, the WA does not accept it.

But maybe I should write clearly my case and ask.