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The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) gives visionary entrepreneurs, investors and startup teams a platform to incubate global impact ventures from Aotearoa New Zealand.

EHF is about creating and supporting a diverse community of entrepreneurs who push the boundaries of creativity and innovation, with fresh new ideas and different approaches to business.

Edmund Hillary Fellowship

A group of Pacific countries from which employers in the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme can hire RSE workers. The countries are:

• the Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Nauru
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• the Republic of Marshall Islands
• Samoa
• the Solomon Islands
• Timor-Leste
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu. 

To be considered an eligible sponsor under the Refugee Family Support Category (RFSC), sponsors must:

• be a New Zealand citizen or resident
• have been given New Zealand residence because they were a refugee or protected person, or an Afghan interpreter or the partner or dependent child of an Afghan interpreter
• be a family member and want to sponsor you and your partner and dependent children for residence
• not have any other family member who is eligible to apply for New Zealand residence under any other category
• not have sponsored anyone else who has since been given a resident visa under the Refugee Family Support Category
• live in New Zealand
• be 18 or over
• meet our requirements for acceptable sponsors
• be able to fulfil their obligations as a sponsor, like making sure the sponsored people have somewhere to live for their first 2 years in New Zealand
• meet the requirements for registering as a tier 1 sponsor or a tier 2 sponsor.

Immigration New Zealand's online health processing system, which is used by panel physicians to send us chest X-ray and medical certificates.

Finding your eMedical and INZ health case reference numbers

A situation that requires someone to receive immediate medical treatment in New Zealand because:

• their life depends on an immediate transfer to New Zealand, as judged by local health authorities
• they have an accident or sudden illness while travelling on a ship or aircraft.

A translation of a document written in a language other than English, into English.

All documents provided with residence applications and visitor visa applications must be translated into English.

If you are not providing an English language test result, you may be able to meet English language requirements by showing you have an English-speaking background.

Meeting English language requirements

Someone who works as:

• an entertainer
• a performing artist, e.g. musician, actor, extra, presenter, contestant 
• a producer
• a director
• part of a film or video production crew
• part of a film or video post-production crew, or
• support personnel for any of the above.

Entry permission allows a person with a visa to enter New Zealand.

Having a visa does not guarantee entry permission unless the person has a:

• New Zealand Permanent Resident Visa
• Resident Visa issued in New Zealand
• Resident Visa issued overseas, if the person has already travelled to New Zealand on that visa.

A person travelling to New Zealand with a New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority (NZeTA) must apply for both a visa and entry permission when they arrive in New Zealand.

English for Speakers of Other Languages. 

English language tuition — if applying for a resident visa, a partner and any children aged 16 and older may choose to buy ESOL tuition in New Zealand, instead of meeting the minimum standard of English. If applying for a Parent Resident Visa, all applicants (including the principal applicant) may choose to buy ESOL tuition. They will need to pay the tuition fee before the application can be approved.

Learning English for families of resident visa applicants

A group of lists that detailed the occupations New Zealand did not have enough people to work in. They included the Immediate Skills Shortage List and the Construction and Infrastructure Skills Shortage List.

These lists have been replaced with the Green List.

Green List roles - jobs we need people for in New Zealand

We will consider a person has exceptional talent in their field of art, culture or sport if they:

• have an international reputation and record of excellence in their field
• are still prominent in their field
• can help New Zealanders to take part in and improve the quality of their own achievements in their field of art, culture or sport.

An executive or senior manager is a person who:

• is a senior employee of an organisation
• has been employed by that organisation for at least 12 months before their proposed transfer to New Zealand
• is responsible for the entire organisation's operations in New Zealand, or a substantial part of it, while receiving general supervision or direction principally from higher level executives, the board of directors or stockholders of the business.

A reason for travelling to New Zealand on a Limited Visa, which may include any 1 of the following:

• to study a short course as a full fee-paying student
• for a special event, like a wedding, funeral, anniversary, reunion conference, seminar, graduation, sports tournament or match, or religious ceremony
• for medical treatment
• for a family emergency, like if a family member has an illness or accident
• to work for a Recognised Seasonal Employer.

You may be able to come to New Zealand on a Limited Visa for a reason not on this list, if we think your reason justifies us giving you a visa.

Expungement of a criminal record is a legal process that can clear criminal convictions from a person's record.