Child of a New Zealander Visitor Visa

• 1 acceptable photo of your child if you apply online, or 2 photos if you use a paper application.
• Your child’s passport or certificate of identity.

Acceptable photos

If you apply online, you must upload a copy of your child’s passport. After you’ve applied, we’ll tell you if you must send us your child’s passport as well.

If you use a paper application form, you may send us your child’s passport, or a certified copy. If you provide a certified copy, we may ask for your child’s passport before we complete the application.

The children may need to have a chest x-ray and/or a medical examination as proof of good health.

Who needs an x-ray or medical examination

You may need to provide Police Certificates as proof of the children’s good character.

Good character

Who needs to provide police certificates

When we assess if your children’s applications are bona fide, we consider all of the information that:

• you provide to support their application
• we have about you and your children’s personal circumstances and previous applications.

Genuine intentions to visit, study or work in NZ

For us to consider your children to be dependent, they must be either:

• 17 or under
• 18-19 with no children of their own.

We may ask for evidence that children 18 – 19 are financially dependent on you, for example:

• documents showing they’re enrolled at school or university
• receipts for their daily expenses, like phone, clothes, food
• bank accounts showing you pay then an allowance
• receipts for big purchases, like travel.

Dependent children

Your children must have at least NZD $1,000 per person per month, or NZD $400 per person per month if their accommodation has already been paid for.

To prove this, you can include:

• proof of accommodation pre-payment, like hotel pre-paid vouchers or receipts
• bank statements or credit card statements
• bank drafts or travellers’ cheques.

If your children are sponsored the sponsor must provide evidence that they meet the sponsorship criteria, and can look after the children while they are in New Zealand.

Criteria to sponsor a visa applicant

What sponsors must do while a visa holder is in New Zealand

Evidence they can provide includes:

• recent bank statements
• pay slips
• employment agreement
• accommodation ownership or payment of rent

You must have the sponsor's Sharing ID to complete the online application.

Process to become a sponsor

Evidence can include:

• a travel ticket for each of the children
• proof you have enough money to buy a ticket out of New Zealand for the children
• a 'Sponsorship Form for Temporary Entry' completed by an acceptable sponsor.

What sponsors must do – responsibilities and obligations

Sponsorship Form for Temporary Entry (INZ 1025) PDF 414KB

You must provide an original or certified copy of your:

• New Zealand passport, birth certificate or certificate of citizenship, or
• New Zealand Resident Visa.

You must provide evidence that you are the parent of your dependent children, which may include:

• the children’s full birth certificates
• adoption papers.

Dependent children