Glossary

A visa issued electronically and without a physical label in your passport.

You can use your eVisa to travel to enter and remain in New Zealand for the period allowed by your visa.

A company that:

• enters into contracts with third-parties to supply labour
• employs people to provide that labour.

The Labour Inspectorate is part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Employment Services department.

In the Labour Inspectorate are a team of 5 inspectors who only work in the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Scheme. Their task, set by Immigration New Zealand (INZ), is to make sure employers comply with RSE policy, specifically, pastoral care, accommodation and employment standards.

A test to establish whether:

• an employer has made a genuine attempt to attract and recruit suitable New Zealanders for a job
• there are any suitable New Zealanders to do a job, or who can be trained to do a job.

When we carry out a labour market test, we’ll look at things like:

• the employer's reasons for not employing a New Zealander to do a job
• evidence of the employer's recruitment attempts, like newspaper and internet advertising
• advice from Work and Income
• advice from industry groups, like unions.

workandincome.govt.nz

We need to see proof of adoption. If you have adopted your child through legal means we need to see the original adoption papers from the country in which you adopted the child.

A New Zealand Government service that helps people who cannot afford a lawyer to pay for legal help.

For more information about legal aid, visit:

Legal aid information | Ministry of Justice

A person who is legally responsible for providing for the education, health and wellbeing of a child and is that child's natural or adoptive parent, or a person who has legal custody of the child.

Funds or assets (or a combination of both) that you either earned or acquired in a way that:

• was legal in the country you earned or acquired them
• would also have been legal if you had earned or acquired them in the same way in New Zealand.

Licensed immigration advisers (LIAs) are licensed by the Immigration Adviser's Authority (IAA) to provide specialist immigration knowledge.

Licensed immigration advisers must:

• be honest, professional and respectful
• provide you with ongoing, timely updates
• charge fees that are fair and reasonable
• meet competency standards and follow a Code of Conduct set by the IAA.

Code of Conduct
Competency Standards

The IAA keeps a register of LIAs. If an adviser does not appear on the register, then they are unlicensed.

Licensed Immigration Adviser Register

A limited medical examination checks for conditions which are the most expensive and place the most demand on New Zealand's health system and special education services. We cannot grant you a medical waiver if you or anyone included in your application has one of these conditions.

When you apply for a visa that has qualification requirements, you may need to get an International Qualification Assessment for your overseas qualification.

Not all international qualifications need to be assessed. Those are in the List of Qualifications Exempt from Assessment (LQEA). Search the list to see if you need an IQA for your qualification.

Check if you need an International Qualification Assessment

An occupation classified as skill level 4 or 5 on the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO).