New Zealand Has Friendly Polices For Immigration – Work to Residence Visa (2024)
Work to Residence 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
- Live, work and study in New Zealand.
- Include your partner and dependent children aged 24 or younger in your visa application.
You, and anyone else included in your application, must provide proof of identity
Prove your identity by providing:
- 1 acceptable photo, and
- a scan of the personal details page of your passport
You, and anyone else included in your application, must be of good character
If you, or anyone else included in your application, are aged 17 or older you must provide a police certificate from:
- all the countries you are a citizen of, and
- any other country you have stayed in for 12 months or more over the last 10 years, even if it was not all in the same stay
You, and anyone else included in your application, must be in good health
You, and your partner if they are included in your application, need to show us you have an acceptable standard of health.
You, and your partner if they are included in your application, need to show us you have an acceptable standard of health.
This means you, and anyone else included in your application, must complete a chest X-ray and medical examination.
NOTE
If you have provided medical certificates to us before, you may not need to provide them again.
The physician panel will prepare a medical certificate detailing the results of the examination and send it to us. It must be no more than 3 months old when you apply for your visa.
There are 2 ways to show us you speak and understand English – through:
- your citizenship, where you studied and the qualifications you gained
- English language tests.
Health of your children
Dependent children aged 24 or younger included in your application must get a full general medical examination, but if they are:
- aged 10 or younger, they must get a medical examination, but do not need a chest X-ray unless we or your ask for one
- 11 to 14 years old, they must get a medical examination and a chest X-ray, but only need a blood test if we or your panel physician ask for one.
