Working Holiday Extension Work Visa

Check if you are eligible to apply for this visa and what supporting documents and information you need to provide.

Identity

As proof of your identity, you must provide:

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

Visa and NZeTA 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.

Citizens of China applying from China

You must also provide your:

• Hukou (household registration book)
• Chinese identity card.

If you submit a paper application form in China, you must also complete a supplementary form.

Applicants from Hong Kong or Macao applying within Hong Kong or Macao

You must also provide a copy of your Identity card.

If you are submitting a paper application form, you must provide a supplementary form for Hong Kong and Macao visitors, workers and students.

Character

You must be of good character.

If you have a criminal conviction or are a security risk to New Zealand we may not be able to grant you a visa.

Character requirements for New Zealand visas

You must provide police certificates if your total time in New Zealand will be 24 months or longer across all visits. This includes any time you have spent in New Zealand in the past on other visas, even if you have been out of the country since then.

You also must provide police certificates if we ask for them.

If you are aged 16 years or younger you do not need to provide police certificates.

Police certificates

How to get a police certificate

If you have already sent us police certificates with a previous visa application and they are less than 24 months old, you do not need to send them again.

Police certificates must be less than 6 months old when you submit your application. They must be from any country you are a citizen of, or have spent more than 5 years in since you turned 17.

Genuine intentions

You must genuinely intend to meet the conditions of your visa.

When we decide if your intentions are genuine, we consider all the information that:

• 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 New Zealand

Location

You must be in New Zealand to apply for this visa. 

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

Health

You must be in good health.

You do not need to provide any evidence of your good health, unless we ask you to.

Why you may need to provide evidence you are in good health

Applicants from China, Hong Kong or Macao applying within China, Hong Kong or Macao

You must provide a chest X-ray completed in the last 3 months, even if you have provided one to us previously, if:

• you have spent 6 months in a row in China since the last X-ray certificate was issued, and
• you are now coming to New Zealand for more than 6 months.

How to get an X-ray or medical examination

Working Holiday Visa

You must have a current Working Holiday Visa. We will check our records for evidence of this.

Seasonal work

You must have already done seasonal work in New Zealand.

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

• letters from employers
• pay slips
• tax records.

Onward travel

You must have a ticket to leave New Zealand or enough money to buy one

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.

No previous extensions

You must not have been granted a Working Holiday Extension Work Visa before.

We will check our records to make sure we have not already given you a Working Holiday Extension Work Visa.

These are the conditions that you must meet once you have your visa. Your visa conditions are recorded in your eVisa.

Travel

After you arrive, you can travel in and out of New Zealand as many times as you like before your visa expires.

Work

You will have the same work conditions as your first working holiday visa.

Study

You can do some study or training, as long as it is not for more than 6 months of your total stay in New Zealand. 

Funds

You must have enough money to live on while in New Zealand.

Onward travel

You must have the means to leave New Zealand at all times during your stay.

Medical insurance

If it was a condition of your Working Holiday Visa to maintain medical insurance for the length of your stay, you must continue to maintain it for the length of your Working Holiday Extension Work Visa.

Visa expiry

You must leave New Zealand before your visa expires.