You can apply to live in New Zealand permanently if you have a child who is a New Zealand citizen or resident. You will also need to meet our income and investment requirements.
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Check if you are eligible to apply for this visa and what supporting documents and information you need to provide.
Also provide a copy of your Identity card.
You must also provide your Kartu Keluarga.
If you are not a French national, you must provide a copy of your carte d’assuré.
You must also provide a copy of your livret de famille.
You must have a chest x-ray and a medical examination as proof of your good health.
If you’ve submitted a general medical and chest x-ray certificate in the last 36 months, for another visa application, you don’t need to resubmit one.
If you, or anyone else included in your application, are aged 17 or older you must provide a police certificate from:
Police certificates must be less than 6 months old at the time you apply.
If you provide a police certificate that is not in English, you must provide an English translation.
This includes police certificates that record no convictions.
You must provide an original or certified copy of your child’s:
Your child must be 18 or over for us to consider them an adult.
If your child is a New Zealand resident, their visa must be free from section 49 conditions.
If your child has section 49 conditions, they’ll be listed on their visa label.
You must provide evidence your child lives in New Zealand, which may include:
Your child must also be a New Zealand citizen or resident.
We’ll ask you about your family when you complete your residence application.
If you have dependent children, you won’t be eligible for this visa.
You must provide evidence of your relationship with your child, such as original or certified copy of your child’s full birth certificate, or adoption papers.
If you’re the legal guardian of a sponsoring child, you must provide:
If you’re the grandparent of a sponsoring child, you must provide:
You can provide household registration documents if these confirm your relationship to your child.
Grandparents of New Zealand citizens or residents may be considered for residence under the Parent Retirement Category if their grandchild’s parents are deceased.
You must provide evidence that confirms your relationship to all of your other children, including:
Evidence may include:
You can provide household registration documents if these confirm your relationship to your child.
You must nominate the type, location and value of the funds and/or assets you intend to invest. Evidence may include:
The value you can claim for your nominated funds, depends if they are owned by you, or jointly by you and another person. If you own an investment jointly with:
The funds and/or assets you nominate for your investment can’t be borrowed, or have a loan or bond against them.
The funds you nominate for your investment must be on top of your annual income and your settlement funds.
The evidence you provide will depend on how you came by your funds. It may include:
It’s OK if your funds were gifted to you, as long as the gift was unconditional and lawful, and was earned or acquired lawfully.
If the funds were earned or acquired in a way that isn’t lawful in New Zealand, we won’t be able to approve your visa application.
You must transfer your investment funds to New Zealand.
You must transfer your investment funds directly from your bank account to New Zealand through the banking system.
If we approve your application in principle, you’ll have 12 months from that date to transfer and invest your funds.
Transferring investment funds
You can apply for a temporary visa to come to New Zealand and investigate investment opportunities.
We cannot extend the timeframe for transferring and investing your nominated funds.
Applicants must ensure their funds meet currency exchange and transfer requirements in place in China.
The following organisations have previously demonstrated they have acceptable QDII products:
You must provide evidence you have the funds and/or assets to cover the required settlement funds, which may include:
The value you can claim for your settlement funds, depends if they are owned by you, or jointly by you and another person. If you own your settlement funds jointly with:
Your settlement funds must be on top of your annual income and your investment funds.
You must provide evidence of your income. This may include documents that show you have:
Your income can be earned by you alone, or together with a partner you’ve included in your application.
To bring your partner, you must provide evidence:
You must provide documents from a trusted professional like a chartered accountant or solicitor that confirm:
Acceptable investments: parent and temporary retirement visas
If you already have funds invested in an acceptable investment in New Zealand, we can start your investment period from the time we approve your residence application in principle.
Once your funds are invested in New Zealand, it’s OK to transfer funds between acceptable investments.
The information below will help you understand the process, timeframes and costs involved in applying for this visa, so you can plan ahead and have the best chance of submitting a complete application.
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Enter country detailsThese are the conditions that you must meet once you have your visa.
You must apply for entry permission when you arrive in New Zealand. You can do this by completing a digital New Zealand traveller declaration (NZTD), or an NZTD paper declaration.
New Zealand Customs and Biosecurity also check that you meet their entry requirements.
You can be refused entry permission if:
You must keep at least NZ $1 million invested in an acceptable investment in New Zealand for 4 years.
We ask for evidence you have kept your funds invested at the end of the second and fourth years you are in New Zealand.
You will have 3 months to provide the evidence.
It is OK to transfer funds between acceptable investments.
If you already have funds in an acceptable investment in New Zealand when you apply for residence, we can start your investment period from the time we approve your application in principle.
Acceptable investments: parent and temporary retirement visas
You must let us know if your address or other contact details change during the 4-year investment period.
We’ll need to keep in touch with you to check you’re meeting the conditions of your visa.
If we’re unable to confirm that you’re meeting the conditions, you may not be able to stay in New Zealand.
You can work in New Zealand.
You can study in New Zealand.
You can travel in and out of New Zealand for the first 2 years of your 4-year investment period.
If we confirm that you’re meeting all of the conditions that apply to the first 2 years of your investment period, you can apply for a variation of conditions to allow you to travel for the last 2 years.
If you’re not meeting the conditions of your visa, you may have to leave New Zealand.
If you’ve met all the conditions of your visa at the end of the 4-year investment period, you may be granted a permanent resident visa.
A permanent resident visa allows travel in and out New Zealand free from conditions.
If you want to travel, your visa must be in a valid passport.
If your passport expires, you must apply to transfer your visa to a new passport before you can travel.
To transfer your visa, you must:
Application for transfer or confirmation of a visa
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