Glossary

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Carrier Relationship team are Immigration New Zealand's (INZ'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 INZ Airline Liaison Officers (ALOs) based at ports across the world.

A certificate of identity is any document, other than a passport, that:

• is issued by a country's government to allow entry to and exit from any country
• establishes the identity of a person, but not their nationality
• gives the right for the person to enter the country of the government that issued it.

Certificates of identity can include any:

• emergency travel document or refugee travel document issued under the Passports Act 1992
• travel document issued by any international organisation for the time being specified by the New Zealand Minister of Immigration for the purpose of this definition — for example, United Nations travel documents are acceptable travel documents even though they are not issued by a government.

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 give 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 happened
• 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 holiday period between the end of the year, normally in November, and the start of the next year normally at the end of February or start of March.

You are usually a citizen of the country in which you were born, depending on where your parents are born. 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 — New Zealand Legislation

Civil Union Act 2004 — New Zealand Legislation

A group of countries that Immigration New Zealand considers have a similar labour market. The group 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.

Compulsory education study is education provided:

• at any primary, intermediate or secondary school, and
• to a person at any time from their fifth birthday to 1 January following their 19th birthday, that is, from years 1 to 13.

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

People recognised as refugees by the New Zealand government under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

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 there, 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.