Working Holiday Extension Work Visa
If you are on a working holiday visa, and have worked in the viticulture or horticulture industries for at least 3 months, you can apply to stay in New Zealand for another 3 months.
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Length of stay
Up to
3 months
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Cost
From
NZD $800
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Processing time
80% within
2.5 weeks
To apply you must:
- be in New Zealand on a current working holiday visa
- have already done at least 3 months of seasonal horticulture or viticulture work in New Zealand
- have plans to leave New Zealand at the end of your stay
- meet the other requirements of this visa.
This visa lets you:
- stay in New Zealand for another 3 months under the same conditions as your original working holiday visa
- travel in and out of New Zealand.
You can only be given one working holiday extension visa.
You do not have to have a job offer to apply.
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Who can apply
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
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.
Note
Your passport must be valid for at least 3 months after you plan to leave New Zealand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- letters from employers
- pay slips
- tax records.
Note
Seasonal work must be planting, maintaining, harvesting, or packing crops in the horticulture or viticulture industry. Any work outside of these specified roles (for example in plant nurseries or in food processing and manufacturing) does not qualify.
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.
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While you are in New Zealand
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.
Note
You do not need a job offer to apply for a Working Holiday Extension Work 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.
Note
Check your Working Holiday Visa for your medical insurance conditions.
Visa expiry
You must leave New Zealand before your visa expires.
Note
Visa expiry dates are printed on a visa label or included in a visa letter.