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 details 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 2 people regardless of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, who:

• live together as a couple
• are not married or in a civil union with each other, and
• are both aged 16 or older.

Whether 2 people are considered to be in a de facto relationship is determined by looking at all the circumstances, including the length of their relationship, how much they share a home, and how they view each other as a couple.

Some people are deemed or considered to hold a visa. This means they have been given permission to enter New Zealand 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 get skilled employment in New Zealand, if you:

• do not qualify for points for skilled employment in New Zealand
• have not completed 2 or more years of full-time study in New Zealand that has resulted in gaining 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 9 months from the date your work visa is given. If you are outside New Zealand, the decision will be deferred for 12 months from the date your work visa is given.

Includes level 7 Degrees, level 8 Postgraduate Diplomas, level 9 Masters degrees and level 10 Doctoral degrees.

About the New Zealand Qualifications and Credentials Framework (NZQCF) — New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)

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 during 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 New Zealand government):

• on or after the date on which a deportation order may be served on the person under section 175 of the Immigration Act 2009
• after a deportation order has been served on the person
• while they are subject to a prohibition on entry to New Zealand under sections 179 or 180 of the Immigration Act 2009
• the person is served with a deportation order when they are 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 — Ministry of Education

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.

Double tax agreements (DTAs) — Inland Revenue

Having any involvement in the trading of illegal drugs.