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Temporary Visas

Main Temporary Visa Categories

Essential Skills Work Visa

Wanting to work in New Zealand?

Requirements:

  • You must meet Health and Character
  • You must have genuine intentions to meet the conditions of your visa
  • You must have a full-time job offer
  • You must proof there are no New Zealanders available to do the job you have been offered
  • You must be qualified and/or have the right experience to do the job you have been offered
  • You must not be subject to a stand-down period (have to spend 12 consecutive months outside New Zealand)
  • Depending on your occupation you may or may not need a New Zealand occupational registration

Partnership Visa

If you want to join your partner in New Zealand and work, you may be eligible for a work visa under the Partnership Visa.

Requirements:

  • Health and Character
  • Evidence that you are living together with your partner in a genuine and stable relationship at the time the application is made.
  • Your partner must:
    • be eligible to support you
    • meet the character requirement for partners supporting partnership-based temporary entry applications’
    • intend to be in New Zealand for the period you apply for in your application

Student Visa

A student Visa allows you to study for a set time at a specified institution as full-time student. However, INZ may allow you to study part time on a student visa if you are:

  • Coming to New Zealand to study for at least three years and the course requires you to gain practical work experience as part of your study
  • Coming to New Zealand to study for a maximum of nine months, your course meets New Zealand's foreign student policy requirements, you can show us that you have paid the course fees, and you meet our visitor requirements.
  • In the final semester of a course of study in New Zealand, resulting in a New Zealand qualification that would qualify for points under the Skilled Migrant Category.
  • Moreover, you can work part time while studying full-time under below circumstances:
  • To meet course requirements for practical work experience, or
  • during the Christmas and New Year holiday period if you are in a full-time course of study lasting 12 months or longer, and/or
  • for up to 20 hours in any given week during the academic year if you are in full-time study:
    • at a private training establishment or tertiary institution and taking at least two academic years to complete, or
    • culminating in a New Zealand qualification that would qualify for points under the Skilled Migrant Category, or
    • at a secondary school full year course of study in years 12 or 13, provided you have written permission from your school and written consent from your parent, or
    • in a full-time study course lasting at least six months, at a private training establishment or tertiary institution. Your immigration officer has to be satisfied that the main purpose of your course is to develop English language skills and you have an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) overall band score of 5.0 or above (General or Academic Module), or
    • at a tertiary level of at least one academic year duration as part of an approved tertiary student exchange scheme.

Post Study Work Visa

This category applies to students who are studying in New Zealand and intend to stay and work in NZ after completion of their studies. All applicants need to meet NZ’s health and character requirements. The other requirements that need to be met depend on whether or not there is a job offer.

Student or Trainee Work Instructions

If you are a student or trainee who needs work experience to complete or further your study or training, you can apply for a Work Visa under this classification provided you meet the following requirements:

  • Health and character requirements
  • Evidence of support of your educational institution
  • Evidence of an offer of work from a New Zealand education institution or employer

Visitor Visa

Visits to NZ are limited to a maximum stay on a Visitor Visa of nine (9) months in any 18-month period. Visitors must show that they are bona fide visitors who are coming to NZ for a valid purpose such as family/friends, social and religious visits; holidaying; sightseeing; amateur sport; business consultation or medical treatment. Visitors must also meet the following requirements:

  • A passport which must be valid for at least three months past the date you are to leave NZ
  • Actual travel tickets (confirmed or open-dated) out of NZ to a country which you have the right to enter;
  • Proof that you have plans and means to leave within the period of your visa
  • Proof that you have enough money to support yourself during the duration of your stay (NZ$1000 per person per month, or NZ$400 per person per month if accommodation has already been paid for)
  • An acceptable sponsor who will pay for your accommodation and maintenance.

Working Holiday Visa

  1. Lodging an application for temporary entry;
  2. Bona fide applicant;
  3. Health and character

Under this scheme citizens from Argentina, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Philippines, Belgium, Chile, Uruguay, Korea, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Malaysia, Malta, Taiwan, Singapore, Hongkong, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America, Brazil, China, Czech, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Peru, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey, Vietnam Spain and Thailand may travel to NZ and undertake employment during their stay.

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