COVID-19
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You want to travel to New Zealand
- Reopening the New Zealand border
- If you are a visa waiver traveller
- If you hold a visitor visa
- Travelling from the Pacific
- Reasons you can travel to New Zealand
- How to request to travel
- You want to study in New Zealand
- If you have a work to residence visa
- Refunds for visa applications that cannot be processed
- Working holiday schemes
- When you can apply for a working holiday visa
- If you have a post-study work visa
- If you have a work visa
- Australian citizens and permanent resident travel requirements
- You are a New Zealand employer
- You are in New Zealand
Travelling from the Pacific
Information about travelling to New Zealand from, or through, a Pacific country.
Visa applications open for travellers located in Pacific countries
From 16 May 2022 you can apply for a visitor visa to travel to New Zealand, but only if you are applying from one these Pacific Island Forum countries:
- the Cook Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Kiribati
- New Caledonia
- Nauru
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
You can apply if you are a citizen of another country. But you must be applying from one of these Pacific Island forum countries.
Your application will need to be submitted online.
If a family member would like to submit a visitor visa application on your behalf, they are able to do so. They will need to declare this on the application form. They do not need to be in a Pacific Island forum country.
Travel conditions
People coming from most Pacific countries need to be eligible to travel to New Zealand. Eligible travellers include:
- New Zealand citizens or residents
- Australian citizens or permanent residents
- people who have a border exception, or
- people who are exempt from the border restrictions, or
- people who hold a valid temporary entry visa.
If you are coming from the Cook Islands or Niue you can apply for an NZeTA , if you are a visa waiver traveller, or any visa:
COVID-19 testing when you arrive in New Zealand
Depending on which Pacific country you are travelling from you may need to take a rapid antigen test (RAT) for COVID-19 on arrival, and 5 days after that.
Countries that do not need to test on arrival
You can currently travel to New Zealand test-free from:
- Nauru
- Niue
- Tokelau
- Tuvalu
You must also:
- have been in your country of origin or another test-free Pacific country, including New Zealand, for at least 14 days before you travel
- be fully vaccinated, and
- meet all the health requirements for New Zealand arrivals when you get here.
You need to fly directly from your country of origin if it has direct flights to New Zealand.
If you travel through any other country on your way to New Zealand, you will be required to meet the public health requirements for travellers from that country.