Information about Working Holiday Extension Work Visa

You must provide proof of your identity:

• 2 acceptable photos of your head and shoulders
• your passport or certificate of identity

Acceptable photos

You may provide your original passport, or a certified copy when you submit your application. If you provide a certified copy we may request your original passport to complete your application.

You don’t need to provide any evidence of your good health, unless we ask you to.

You may need to provide police certificates as proof of your good character.

If you are aged 17 or older and plan to stay in New Zealand for more than 24 months (including any time you have already spent in New Zealand), you must provide police certificates from:

• any country you are a citizen of
• any country you have spent more than 5 years in since you turned 17.

You do not need to provide police certificates if:

• you have provided them to us with an earlier visa application, and
• they were issued in the previous 24 months.

Good character

How to get a police certificate

When we decide if your intentions are genuine (bona fide), we consider all the information:

• you provide to support your application
• we have about your personal circumstances, and
• you provided in any previous applications.

Genuine intentions to visit, study or work in NZ

Evidence that you are a genuine visitor

We will use our records to check you are still here.

We’ll check our records for evidence you have a current Working Holiday Visa.

You must have spent at least 3 months doing seasonal work in the horticulture or viticulture industries while on your current Working Holiday Visa. Evidence can include:

• letters from employers
• pay slips
• tax records.

Evidence can include:

• your travel ticket
• proof you have enough money to buy a ticket out of New Zealand, in addition to the funds you have to live on.

We’ll check our records to make sure we haven’t already granted you a Working Holidaymaker Extension Work Visa.