New Zealand Welcomes Foreign Workers – Housekeeping Staff Visa (2024)
Domestic Staff Visa
New Zealand has had a long history of immigration from Britain, with the migrant inflow being especially important in the second half of the 19th century. War and economic depression disrupted immigration at various times in the first half of the 20th century, but there was another surge of British immigration to New Zealand in the decades after the Second World War.
Between 1947 and 1975, a total of 77,000 women, children and men arrived from Great Britain under the assisted immigration scheme. Smaller numbers came from the Netherlands and some other European countries. Non-British immigrants in particular introduced new customs, foods, ideas and practices, and together with later arrivals helped shape modern New Zealand society.
New Zealand was first inhabited by the people of Ngāpuhi (tribe of the Far North), the first explorer to reach New Zealand was the intrepid ancestor, Kupe. Using the stars and ocean currents as his navigational guides, he ventured across the Pacific on his waka hourua (voyaging canoe) from his ancestral Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki.
The first European to sight New Zealand was Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. He was on an expedition to discover a great Southern continent ‘Great South Land’ that was believed to be rich in minerals. In 1642, while searching for this continent, Tasman sighted a ‘large high-lying land’ off the West Coast of the South Island.
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With this visa you can
- Do domestic work for your employer while they are in New Zealand on a diplomatic, consular or official posting.
- Leave and come back into New Zealand.
Things to note
- You can only apply on paper, not online. Complete the form in the section: Process and costs.
- You cannot include a partner or dependent children in your visa application.
- You cannot work in an administrative or technical role, or do any other work in New Zealand.
- You have to leave New Zealand if your employment ends before your employer’s posting does.
- People who are already in New Zealand on a working holiday visa are not eligible for this visa.
You must provide proof of your identity:
- 2 acceptable photos of your head and shoulders
- your passport
You must be in good health
New Zealand Government may ask you to have a chest x-ray, a medical examination or both as proof of your good health.
If you are staying less than:
- 6 months you do not normally need a chest x-ray.
- 12 months you do not normally need a medical certificate.
You must provide police certificates if your total time in New Zealand will be 24 months or longer across all visits. This includes any time you have spent in New Zealand in the past on other visas, even if you have been out of the country since then.
You also must provide police certificates if we ask for them.
If you are 16 years old or younger you do not need to provide police certificates.
If you have already sent us Police Certificates with a previous visa application and they are less than 24 months old, you do not need to send them again.
Police certificates must be less than 6 months old when you submit your application. They must be from any country you are a citizen of, or have spent more than 5 years in since you turned 17.
You must genuinely intend to meet the conditions of your visa
When New Zealand Government decide if your intentions are genuine, they consider all the information:
- you provide to support your application
- we have about your personal circumstances, and
- you provided in any previous applications.
