New Zealand welcomes new migrants – people who will contribute to our country by bringing valuable skills or qualifications, setting up a business, or making a financial investment. These include people applying under the following categories.
We also offer opportunities for family reunification by allowing residents and citizens to sponsor family members for residence.
We have a range of family policies to help partners, dependent children, parents, siblings or adult children of New Zealand citizens or residents to come to live in New Zealand.
This category allows New Zealanders granted residence as refugees to sponsor a family member and that person's partner and dependent children for New Zealand residence. Each year there are 300 places available.
Each year we invite a number of Samoan citizens to apply for residence under our Samoan Quota Scheme.
Each year we invite a number of people from Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tonga to apply for residence under the Pacific Access Category.
