- 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.
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 an arrival card, which you are given on the way to New Zealand.
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.
Travel
You can travel in and out of New Zealand as often as you like until your travel conditions expire.
To travel after that, you will need to apply for and be granted either:
- a Permanent Resident Visa
- a variation of your travel conditions, which would allow you to return to New Zealand at a later date.
Your travel conditions will expire 2 years from the date you first arrive in New Zealand as a resident.
If you’re outside of New Zealand when your travel conditions expire, your visa will expire as well.
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.
Transferring my visa to a new passport
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 (INZ 1023)
Work
You must work in the region specified in your visa approval letter for 24 months from the date your resident visa is granted.
The region specified will be the same region as specified by your South Island Contribution Work Visa.
You must provide evidence you have met your visa conditions within 30 months of being granted a resident visa.
Study
Once granted a resident visa, you can do any study you like.