Application for transfer or confirmation of a visa

Online application form for the transfer or confirmation of a visa.

Managing your visa and passport

When to use this form

Transferring your eVisa or visa label to a new passport

If you have a new passport (because your old passport expired, was lost, stolen, damaged or your name has changed), you will need to transfer your visa to your new passport so you can continue to travel to and from New Zealand.

This applies regardless of whether you had an eVisa or a visa label in your old passport.

If you have a Skilled Migrant Category Interim Visa

Apply to transfer your visa using the Application for a transfer of a visa for Skilled Migrant Category Interim Visa holders form:

Application for a transfer of a visa for Skilled Migrant Category Interim Visa holders

evisas

eVisas are issued for all visas and visa labels are no longer required. An eVisa is a letter containing your visa details instead of a visa label in your passport. Your eVisa can be checked electronically by airlines, employers, education providers and other New Zealand Government agencies.

Applying for the balance of your visa

If your temporary visa was granted for a shorter length than requested because your passport was about to expire, you can apply for the balance of the visa to be transferred to your new passport.

Confirming your New Zealand immigration status

Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident

If you are an Australian citizen or permanent resident currently living in New Zealand and you need visa status evidence, you can apply to get either:

  • an eVisa, or
  • a visa label placed in your passport.

If you travel outside New Zealand, your resident visa will expire and your eVisa or visa label will become invalid. If you return and you want evidence of your visa status, you will need to get a new eVisa or visa label in your passport.

If you do not want your visa to expire when you leave New Zealand, apply for a ‘variation of travel conditions’.

Apply to extend or vary travel conditions

Confirm your residence status

Apply to confirm your residence status if you:

  • are unsure what your status is, and
  • want to leave New Zealand and return. 

You may need to confirm your residence status if you arrived in New Zealand:

  • after World War II under the Assisted Immigration Scheme and you do not have any paper records of your arrival
  • as a migrant child without a passport of your own and were permitted to enter on your parent's passport
  • between 1964 and 1987 and you were granted a single-entry residence permit.

Assisted Immigration Scheme — New Zealand History website

When applying for confirmation you need your original passport and visa endorsement or other entry authority.

If you do not have the originals, include evidence that you have lived in either New Zealand or Australia continuously since 2 April 1974.

Confirm you hold a Permanent Resident Visa

Permanent Resident Visas were only introduced in the 2009. If New Zealand became your home before 2009, and you have never travelled outside New Zealand since arriving, your residence visa may end when you leave New Zealand.

You may need to confirm you hold a Permanent Resident Visa if you:

  • came to New Zealand before 2009 and you have never left, and
  • have no written proof you have a Permanent Resident Visa or New Zealand citizenship.

You can confirm your residence status by:

  • using the online form
  • contacting our Customer Service Centre
  • using the 'Request my information' process.

Contact the Customer Service Centre

Confirm immigration status if you hold a temporary or other resident visa

If you need to confirm your immigration status you can send us a request using the:

  • online form, or
  • Request my information process

Request my information process

Requesting a visa label

If you have received an eVisa you can request a visa label in your passport. You will need to pay a fee and send us your passport.

Transferring your eVisa or visa label to a certificate of identity

If you have a certificate of identity, you will need to transfer your visa to it so you can continue to travel to and from New Zealand.

When filling in our online form you can use the 'Certificate No.' of your certificate of identity instead of a passport number.

Fees

There is no fee if you want an eVisa or a confirmation letter.

There is a fee if you require a visa label in your passport. You must pay after you submit this form.

If you want a visa label, check the application fee that you need to pay.

Fees, decision times and where to apply

Documents you will need

All documents you upload must be in a PDF, JPG or JPEG format and as a single file. Photographs, if required, must be in JPG or JPEG format.

You will need to upload a copy of your passport.

If you want a visa label, you will also need to send us your passport.

Other documents you may need

You may need to upload, if applicable:

  • a copy of marriage certificate, new birth certificate or other name change document
  • copy of previous passport
  • evidence from the Police, your Embassy or your High Commission that your passport was lost, stolen, or damaged
  • evidence of residency
  • evidence of your non-New Zealand citizenships
  • evidence that you have lived in New Zealand continuously since 2 April 1974 such as rates notices, driver's license, receipted power bills, income tax returns, school records or employment references.

Additional documents

You can upload 5 documents in this application form. If you need to provide more documents, you will be able to at a later date after submitting your application. We may request further information if needed.

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