Pathway visas
A Pathway Student Visa allows an international student to undertake a progression of up to three consecutive programmes of study with selected education providers on a single visa. The visa will be valid up to a maximum of five years.
Student visa information
There are many different visas that a student could study on. Some allow longer study durations than others. We provide a list of all student visas and also a tool for our industry partners to view Visa Factsheets.
All student visas
Here is a list of all our visas a student could study on.
Visa Factsheets
We have created Visa Factsheets for all the student visas for our industry partners in mind. These give you a great visibility not only of the criteria they must meet but also the conditions they must meet, for example, working while studying rules.
How to find visa factsheets
You can access a factsheet directly from the ‘Find a visa factsheet’ search field found in the footer on each page.
Simply start to type a visa name or key word such as 'stud' and after 4 letters it will match your input.
Select the visa you would like to view and wait for the visa to display.
Filters to customise information
Unlike the visa pages in the 'New Zealand Visas' section the filters are not mandatory.
Expert users may wish to see only the generic information displayed. But if a user selects some options from the dropdowns and chooses customise, the details throughout the visa factsheet will be updated accordingly.
Example one
If you choose in filter 3 that the person you had in mind was not including anyone on their application, then the 'family' criteria would not show for that result.
Example two
If 'China' is selected from the passport filter, then there may be 'tips' within the criteria area that are specific to Chinese citizens and you will also see Chinese specific documents in the process & fees tab.