- 2 acceptable photos of your head and shoulders
- your original or a certified copy of your passport or certificate of identity
- your original or a certified copy of your full birth certificate.
Pitcairn Islander Resident Visa
If you are a Pitcairn Islander and you have been offered skilled employment in New Zealand, you can apply for this resident visa.
Length of stay
Indefinitely
Cost
From
NZD $2750
Processing time
Data
not available
With this visa you can
- Live, work and study in New Zealand.
- Include your partner, and dependent children aged 24 and under, in your visa application.
Things to note
- You can only apply if the skilled employment you’ve been offered is full-time.
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What you need to apply
Check if you are eligible to apply for this visa and what supporting documents and information you need to provide.
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You must have a chest x-ray and a medical examination as proof of your good health.
If you, or anyone else included in your application, are aged 17 or older you must provide a police certificate from:
- all the countries you are a citizen of, and
- any other country you have stayed in for 12 months or more over the last 10 years, even if it was not all in the same stay.
Tips
Police certificates must be less than 6 months old at the time you apply.
We’ll use the documents you provide as proof of your identity to check you’re from the Pitcairn Islands.
You must provide a written employment agreement for skilled employment, which will need to include:
- a detailed job description
- the hours of work
- the length of the employment
- the salary or wages
- the date you’ll be starting work.
We can’t grant a visa if your employer is included on the list of non-compliant employers maintained by the Labour Inspectorate.
Tips
If you’ve been offered a contract, provide your contract for service instead.
If registration is required to work in your occupation in New Zealand, you must provide either:
- a certified copy of your full or provisional New Zealand registration
- confirmation from the appropriate registration body that you’re eligible for New Zealand registration.
To bring family:
- you must provide evidence of your relationship with them, like marriage and birth certificates
- you must provide proof of their identity
- they must be of good character
- they must be in good health.
Process and costs
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.
1
You apply for a resident visa
Fill in your application forms and send them to us together with your supporting documents, application fee, and immigration levy.
Immigration costs
NZD $
2,750
Application cost – This is the charge for Immigration New Zealand to process your application. We do not refund application costs if we decline your application. A non-refundable immigration levy is charged and is included in the cost.
2
We make a decision about your application
If there is anything else you need to do, we will be in touch.
Timeframes - Processing
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How to submit
Payment methods and receiving centre details if applicable.
Applying on paper
Payment methods
By Post
Credit Card
You can pay with Visa or MasterCard. We take payment when we receive your application. You must have enough funds available on the day we receive your application or it may be returned to you.
Debit Card
You can pay by debit card. We take payment when we receive your application. You must have enough funds available on the day we receive your application or it may be returned to you.
Postal address
Immigration New Zealand
PO Box 76895
Manukau City
Auckland 2241
New Zealand
Courier address
Immigration NZ
DX Box: EP71514
20 Fairfax Avenue
Penrose
Auckland 1061
New Zealand
Conditions
These are the conditions that you must meet once you have your visa.
Entry permission
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.
Notes
You can be refused entry permission if:
- you don’t meet our character requirements
- your circumstances have changed since you were granted a visa
- you refuse to let us to take your photo, or provide us with your fingerprints or an iris scan, if we ask you for them.
Arriving in New Zealand
When we grant your visa, you and your partner and dependent children will have 12 months to come to New Zealand. If you’re unable to come to New Zealand within 12 months, your visa will expire and you’ll have to apply for a new visa.
Notes
Your family must have been included in your resident visa application for them to come to New Zealand.
Keep your visa in a valid passport
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.
Notes
To transfer your visa, you must:
- send us your old and new passports
- complete an ‘Application for Transfer or Confirmation of a Visa’
- pay a transfer fee.
Application for transfer or confirmation of a visa
Application for Transfer or Confirmation of a Visa (INZ 1023) PDF 375KB
Travel
You can travel in and out of New Zealand as often as you like until your travel conditions expire — normally 2 years from the date you first arrive in New Zealand as a resident.
Alert
If you are outside New Zealand when your travel conditions expire, your visa will expire as well.
To travel in and out of New Zealand after your travel conditions expire, you need to apply for:
- a variation to your travel conditions, or
- a Permanent Resident Visa.
Notes
Your travel conditions will expire 2 years from the date you first arrive in New Zealand as a resident.
If you are outside of New Zealand when your travel conditions expire, your visa will expire as well.