Visit Visa

You can visit New Zealand for business reasons. You’ll need to have enough money to live on while you’re in New Zealand, or have the financial support of your employer. While you’re here, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture and friendly people.

If you have NZ $750,000 to invest in New Zealand for 2 years, another NZ $500,000 to live on, and an annual income of NZ $60,000, you can stay longer than allowed on a standard Visitor Visa. If we approve your application in principle, you’ll have 3 months to transfer your investment funds to New Zealand.

Some visitors and transit passengers can travel to New Zealand without a visa if they get an NZeTA (New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority) before they travel.

You can come to New Zealand as a visitor. During your stay, you’ll need enough money to support yourself and everyone included in your application. While you’re here, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture, and friendly people.

New Zealand has working holiday scheme agreements with many countries, allowing you to work in and explore our great country.

Every year hundreds of young people apply for New Zealand working holiday visas, and spend a year or two working in New Zealand.

Working Holiday Visa Scheme is available for the countries below:

Argentina | Austria | Belgium | Brazil | Canada | Chile | China | Croatia | Czech | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany | Hungary | Hong Kong | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Japan | Korea | Latvia | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malaysia | Malta | Mexico | Netherlands | Norway | Peru | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | Taiwan | Thailand | Turkey | United Kingdom | USA | Uruguay | Vietnam

This visa is for groups travelling to New Zealand for the same purpose and with the same travel arrangements. Your group must have a leader who’s organising the trip, and will take care of the visa and arrival formalities.

If you have a work visa, your dependent children who are 19 and under can join you in New Zealand. While they’re visiting here, they can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, culture, and friendly people.

Parents and grandparents can visit family in New Zealand, multiple times on the same visa. You must be visiting your New Zealand citizen or resident children or grandchildren. While you’re here, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture, and friendly people.

Crew members can come to New Zealand to join a vessel or aircraft leaving for another country. You must provide fully documented evidence of your engagement as a crew member in New Zealand. During your stay, you’ll need enough money to support yourself and everyone included in your application.

Your dependent children can join you while you study in New Zealand. As visitors, they can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture, and friendly people.

With this visa you can come to New Zealand as a tour escort on a visitor visa. To apply, you must meet the criteria of the visa and you will need a letter from your employer confirming your role and duties as a tour escort.

Parents and legal guardians can visit New Zealand to live with and care for their children who are in New Zealand on a student visa.

You can join your New Zealand citizen or resident partner and enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, culture, and friendly people.

If you are passing through New Zealand as a transit passenger, you need to apply for a Transit Visa before you travel, unless you are travelling to Australia or are from a visa waiver country or a transit visa waiver country.

You can visit New Zealand for business reasons. You’ll need to have enough money to live on while you’re in New Zealand, or have the financial support of your employer. While you’re here, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture and friendly people.

You can visit New Zealand for medical treatment or consultation you’ve been accepted for. You must able to pay for your treatment, unless it’s funded under a special arrangement for citizens of South Pacific countries.

This visa is for people escorting patients who are coming to New Zealand for medical treatment or consultation. To apply, you must be a medical professional, a family member or friend of the patient, and needed because of the patient’s condition. While you’re here, you’ll need enough money to support yourself and everyone included in your application.

You can join your partner while they’re in New Zealand on a work visa. While you’re visiting, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, culture, and friendly people.

You can travel to New Zealand on a private yacht or aircraft. If you’ll be using commercial transport to leave New Zealand, you must have a travel ticket or enough money to buy one. If you’ll be living on board a yacht, you’ll need to have NZ $400 to live on for each month of your stay.

You can visit New Zealand to marry a New Zealand citizen or resident in a culturally arranged marriage, or live with them if you got married overseas. Once you live with your partner you can apply for a 12-month work visa.

If you’re taking part in the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise or New Zealand Tourism Board’s Visiting Media Programme, you can apply for this visa. You’ll need to provide a letter of introduction with your application. You can visit New Zealand and do work associated with your Visiting Media Programme.

This visa is for owners and crew of super yachts travelling to New Zealand. If you’ll be using commercial transport to leave New Zealand, you must have a travel ticket or enough money to buy one. If you’ll be living on board, you’ll need to have at least NZ $400 to live on for each month of your stay.

You can join your partner while they study in New Zealand. As a visitor, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, culture, and friendly people.

If you have NZ $750,000 to invest in New Zealand for 2 years, another NZ $500,000 to live on, and an annual income of NZ $60,000, you can stay longer than allowed on a standard Visitor Visa. If we approve your application in principle, you’ll have 3 months to transfer your investment funds to New Zealand.

You can join your partner who is in New Zealand at the request or with the consent of the New Zealand Government for miltary duty or employment. As a visitor, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, culture, and friendly people.

Your dependent children can join you while you’re in New Zealand for military duty or work. As visitors, they can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture, and friendly people.

If you’re a New Zealand citizen or resident your dependent children who are not New Zealand citizens or residents can join you in New Zealand. While they’re visiting here, they can enjoy our scenery, culture, and friendly people.

With this visa, you can transit through New Zealand to work in Antarctica as part of an Antarctic Treaty programme. You must provide a letter of support from the Contracting Party to the Antarctic Treaty who you’re working for.

You want to visit New Zealand as an academic and take part in teaching, educational, professional management or research activities. You must provide a letter of invitation from the tertiary education institute you plan to work at.

Children adopted from other countries can visit New Zealand, before their New Zealand citizenship is confirmed. You must provide the children’s birth certificates and evidence that at least one of their adoptive parents is a New Zealand citizen.

Children can come to New Zealand to be adopted by New Zealand citizens or residents. The adoption must have the support of the Ministry of Social Development’s Child, Youth and Family Services.

If you’re an APEC Business Travel cardholder intending a short stay, you can come to New Zealand to carry out trade and investment activities. You’ll need to have clearance from your home economy and New Zealand before you travel. While you’re here, you can enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, adventure, culture and friendly people.

Performers and their immediate support crews can visit New Zealand to take part in an approved arts or music festival. You must provide a letter of invitation from the festival organisers explaining your role in the festival.

You can apply for this visa if you’ve been dismissed from your job during a trial period. You must have a current work visa and enough money to live on while you’re here. You must also have a ticket to leave New Zealand or enough money to buy one.

German law students or graduates can visit New Zealand as unpaid observers with New Zealand law firms. To apply, you’ll need a written offer of a temporary position from a New Zealand law firm, and enough money to support yourself and anyone included in your application.

You can apply for this visa if you want to come to New Zealand to obtain New Zealand occupational registration. Or you’re already in New Zealand, have applied for residence, and need more time to obtain your occupational registration. The appropriate New Zealand registration body must confirm you’re eligible for the registration process.

This visa is for you if you’re a Pitcairn Islander and you want to visit New Zealand. While you’re here, you’ll need enough money to support yourself and everyone included in your application. You must also have enough money to return home.

We may grant you a visitor visa if you are a refugee or protection status claimant who is in New Zealand, while you wait for a decision on your refugee or protection status claim. We may waive the requirement to provide evidence of funds or sponsorship, and onward travel.

If you’re a performer or immediate support crew for a performer you can apply for this visa to take part in a short-term live entertainment act in New Zealand. To apply, the entertainment act must be promoted by a promoter on our Approved Promoters List.

You can visit New Zealand for a sports event or tour, if you’re a sports person. You can also visit as support staff, as a match or tournament official, or as a media or broadcasting worker, if you meet certain requirements. During your stay, you’ll need enough money to support yourself and everyone included in your application.

We may grant a visa to a child victim of people trafficking so they can study at primary or secondary school in New Zealand. The child must have certification from the New Zealand Police that they are believed to be a victim of people trafficking. If granted a student visa, the child’s primary or secondary school study will be publicly funded.