Glossary

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Carrier Relationship Team are Immigration New Zealand's connection between travel operators (carriers) such as cruise ships and airlines. 

As well travel operators, the team also works with:

• other government agencies such as New Zealand Customs and the Ministry of Transport, and
• industry bodies including the Board of Airline Representatives New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand.

The team are supported in their work with airlines by a network of Immigration New Zealand Airline Liaison Officers (ALOs) based at ports across the world.

A certificate of identity is any document, other than a passport, issued by the government of any country that allows a person to travel. Certificates of identity confirm a person's identity, but not their nationality and should only be used for travel when a passport is not available.

A photocopied or scanned document which has been stamped or signed by a person as a true copy of the original. The certifier must be authorised by law to take statutory declarations in your home country or in New Zealand. For example a lawyer, Notary Public, Justice of the Peace, or court official.

A decision to waive character requirements for a person who does not meet them, so we can grant them a visa.

We do not consider character waivers for people who have character issues described in section 15 or 16 of the Immigration Act 2009.

When we make a decision about whether we grant a character waiver, we take into account things like:

• how long ago the event that created the character issue occurred
• the circumstances surrounding the offence or incident
• the person's circumstances, including their ties to New Zealand and reasons for applying for a visa
• the significance of any information falsely provided or withheld during a previous visa application (if this applies), and the person's intentions and involvement in providing or withholding this information.

An accountant who is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, which is a professional body for accountants. Chartered accountants work under a code of ethics.

The vacation period between the end of the academic year, normally in November, and the start of the next academic year normally at the end of February or start of March.

You are usually automatically a citizen of the country in which you were born, but you may also hold citizenship for another country, if your parents or ancestors originally came from another country.  Your citizenship will be listed in your passport.

A civil union has the same property and civil rights as a marriage. It may be between couples of the same sex or couples of different sexes.

You or your partner's adult brother or sister, adult child or parent.

Close relatives are people who are prohibited from:

• marrying each other under the Marriage Act 1995, or
• entering into a civil union with each other under the Civil Union Act 2004.

Marriage Act 1995
Civil Union Act 2004

A group of countries that Immigration New Zealand considers have a similar labour market, which is made up of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macau, Malta, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Work experience in a country not listed above will only be assessed as being in a comparable labour market if it was for a multinational entity domiciled in one of the countries listed above.

Education from the ages of 6 years to 16 years of age is compulsory in New Zealand.

A company involved in triangular employment that:

• hires employees from another employer
• directs or controls those employees as if they were the direct employer, and
• is not the direct employer in the employment agreement.

Requirements for controlling third parties and franchisees

A person who has been given refugee status by the New Zealand Government.

Any country you have the right to live in permanently.

You also have the right to enter a country if:

• you have a valid visa for that country or are eligible for visa-free travel, and
• you meet that country's entry requirements (for example, you have onward travel arrangements).

In some countries and cultures parents may adopt children without going through a formal legal adoption process.  If this applies to your family situation we will require evidence of this adoption.