Originally Posted by
Tax Dude
From what I hear, there are some system issues and quite a few are stuck in "pending" somehow. From reading other travel forums, if you show "pending" in the app, the airlines are supposed to let you board, but it may delay things while they call NZ immigration and check. But it never came up for us.
I wouldn't count on that. A recent flight that I took with QF was delayed with 2 pax offloaded due to not getting visa processed sufficient to satisfy QF. Both pax were in transit from EK who either hadn't checked visa status or assumed it would be sorted in the day from check in with EK until the flight to NZ departed.