Glossary

If your passport or travel document is damaged in a way that compromises its integrity, you may not be able to travel to New Zealand.

Examples include:

• Damage located on the bio page
• Pages that have been substantially torn or come away from the document completely
• Where security features have been compromised.

A de facto relationship is between two people who usually live together as a couple, like a marriage or civil union. They are not married or in a civil union with each other.

Some people are deemed to hold a visa. This means they have been granted entry permission where it is not possible or appropriate for them to apply for a visa.

Deemed visas are most commonly used for cruise ship passengers, people travelling to the Ross Dependency in Antarctica and members of visiting armed forces.

We may defer the decision on your Skilled Migrant Category application and offer you a work visa to allow you to obtain skilled employment in New Zealand, if you:

• do not qualify for points for skilled employment in New Zealand
• have not undertaken two or more years of full-time study in New Zealand that has resulted in the award of a Doctorate or Master's degree, and
• meet all other requirements for approval (including the requirements of Skilled Migrant Category Job Search Instructions).

Skilled Migrant Category Job Search Instructions

If you are in New Zealand, the decision on your resident visa application will be deferred for nine months from the date your work visa is granted. If you are outside New Zealand, the decision will be deferred for 12 months from the date your work visa is granted.

A legal document that notifies a person that they will be deported from New Zealand and explains:

• the reason the person is being deported
• any time period for which the person may not return to New Zealand
• any costs associated with the deportation.

A person is deported from New Zealand if the person leaves New Zealand (whether or not at the expense of the Government of New Zealand):

• on or after the date on which a deportation order may be served on the person under section 175 of the Immigration Act 2009; or
• after a deportation order has been served on the person; or
• while he or she is subject to a prohibition on entry to New Zealand under sections 179 or 180 of the Immigration Act 2009; or
• the person is served with a deportation order when he or she is outside New Zealand; or
• the person was deported from New Zealand under the Immigration Act 1987.

A direct employer is the employer named on the employment agreement. They must be:

• a legal entity, for example, an incorporated company or society, or
• legal persons that make up an employer organisation, for example, partners in a partnership, a sole trader in a sole trader organisation, or trustees in a trust.

The direct employer is responsible for, but does not necessarily carry out themselves, jobs such as paying salaries, PAYE tax instalments, setting employees' working hours, and deciding the conditions of employment.

Students at schools and tertiary education institutes who have their fees partly or totally paid by the New Zealand Government. In certain circumstances defined by New Zealand’s Ministry of Education, international students can be treated as domestic students.

Definition of a domestic student in New Zealand

Any violence included in the meaning of domestic violence in section 3 of the Domestic Violence Act 1995.

Domestic Violence Act 1995

A company is domiciled in the country where it is permanently located and legally registered.  Multi-national companies are domiciled in the country where the head office or parent company is registered.  For example, if company A has branches in New Zealand, Australia and Fiji, but the head office is in the United Kingdom it is considered to be domiciled in the United Kingdom.

People who are tax residents in New Zealand and another country can be taxed on the same income by both countries. Double tax agreements have been negotiated between New Zealand and many other countries to decide which country has the first or sole right to tax specific types of income.

This means having any involvement in the trading of illegal drugs.