I've had a student load in NZ since 1996 and never paid anything off.

I have lived in the Uk for 15 years and

recently I was contacted by a collection companany called CCI representing IRD and saying I owe NZD 36,000 and need to pay now.

After advice from a lawyer,

I have decided to apply for bankruptcy in NZ.

Now, my question is,

do I make contact with IRD and/or collection agency informing them that I have applied for bankruptcy as have no way of paying loan back?

I am worried they will continue putting pressure on me now they have found out where I live.

I have no assets,

earn a low income,

an a single mum etc so really have no way of paying anything back.

guys I need advice. I have a student loan in nz dating back to 1996. No payments made. I have lived in uk for 15 years with no intention of going back to nz. I owe $36,000. Should I declare myself bankrupt in nz? I think its my only option as I have no assets and a low income.I have looked on the Insolvency website in nz.

The IRD's collection agency in UK, a company call CCI have found me and are hounding me. Should I make contact with IRD and/or CCI and explain that I have no money and will be declaring bankruptcy in the near future.

This is a UK site. Not sure anywhere here will know enough about NZ student loans or NZ bankruptcy processes. If you have spoken to a NZ Lawyers and they are dealing with bankruptcty, you should not be contacting any debt collectors. Just wait until you have sorted out the bankruptcy. Then once that is going through, the NZ creditors owed the money will be contacted and debt collection should stop. If it does not, then pass on letters to whoever is handling the bankruptcy.

Debt collectors have no powers and you can ignore them. They can threaten allsorts, but they would need to spend money going through a court process to have any debt enforcement options.

Hello Kiwigel.

I see you've started your own thread in the Overseas debt forum so I'm closing this old thread to avoid confusion. Please continue to post your questions on your new thread.

HB

if you are going BK solely over this stupid powerless DCA chasing a NZ debt from 1996 id stop the process now and not waste anymore money doing it.

there is absolutely nothing a powerless DCA can do whatsoever about the debt.

they ARE NOT BAILIFFS

and as with all DCA letters not matter what country the supposed debt originates from...they can be TOTALLY IGNORED.

dx

Hi Kiwigel,

I am just wondering if you have gone ahead with filing for BK and if so did you file in the UK and include your NZ loan, or did you just file in NZ?

I have debts that I can not clear here in the UK and no assets so have been advised to file for BK, but have been informed that I need to include all debts including my NZ student loan. I contacted insolvency NZ, who told me they are unsure if a UK BK will be accepted by NZ, meaning I may have to file a separate bk in NZ to cear my NZ student loan (so, file for BK in both countries). Why they are unsure I don't know, given all the postings on the internet about overseas kiwis filing for BK to get out of NZ student loans surely Im not their first case of this nature?

start a new thread

and start one of your own please

I question the need for anyone to go BK in the UK let alone NZ

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I only applied for bankruptcy in NZ and it was accepted thank goodness. Its very simple to be honest. I did it all online from the UK. The NZ Insolvency Website is very good.

So far so good....it has not affected anything in the UK. I had heard sometimes they contact your bank in Uk but nothing so far. It went through very quickly also. Within a few weeks. I only had the student loan debt. Ask me anything you need btw.

Since you kindly offered to answer questions about this I wanted to ask for an update on how your NZ bankruptcy is impacting on your life in the UK?

I am considering applying for NZ bankruptcy and it's been hard to get any useful information on what effects this would be likely to have on my life in the UK so any insider info would be much appreciated!

I'd be particularly interested in what UK financial documents (bank statements, payslips, etc.) you had to provide and how much contact you've had with the administrator since that initial application process (do you have to provide regular updates, etc?).

Also, did you have to sell any assets and are you having to make regular payments during the term of your bankruptcy?

Thanks in advance.

if you go BK in NZ that's it dead done

cant effect anything here and know one knows about neither do you have to tell them

kwigil has new returned to cag.

thread now closed to stop newbie bumping

anyone with a similar issue that has their own issue after reading this thread carefully

then start a new thread

dx