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We have a range of visas that allow you to work in New Zealand. Many visa applications from outside New Zealand or a quarantine-free travel zone are currently suspended, unless you are exempt.
We invite people who have the skills, experience and qualifications New Zealand needs to grow its economy to apply for residence under this category. If your application's successful, you and your family will be able to live in New Zealand permanently.
This visa is for young citizens of the Argentine Republic who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Austria who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Belgium who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Federative Republic of Brazil who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Chile who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the People's Republic of China who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Croatia who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Czech Republic who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Denmark who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Estonia who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Finland who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of France who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Hungary who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Ireland who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the State of Israel who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Italian Republic who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Japan who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Korea who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Latvia who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Luxembourg who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Malaysia who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Malta who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the United Mexican States who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Netherlands who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Norway who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Peru who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for educated young citizens of the Republic of the Philippines who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Poland who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Portugal who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Singapore who want to get some New Zealand work experience either before completing a course of study with a Singapore university or polytechnic, or after graduating.
This visa is for young citizens of the Slovak Republic who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Republic of Slovenia who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Kingdom of Spain who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Kingdom of Sweden who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young people from Taiwan who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Kingdom of Thailand who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for educated young citizens of the Republic of Turkey who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the United Kingdom who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of the United States of America who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for educated young citizens of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
This visa is for young citizens of Canada who want to work or study while they holiday in New Zealand.
If you have been offered a full-time job, and you have the necessary qualifications and experience to work in that job, you can apply for a temporary visa to work in New Zealand. Unless you are staying with the same employer and in the same role and region, your employer must have checked if any New Zealanders were available to do the work, before offering you the job. If you are granted this visa, you may be able to support visa applications for your partner and dependent children.
If you have the qualifications and experience required for an occupation on our Long Term Skill Shortage List and have an offer of employment in that occupation, then you may be eligible for this visa. This visa can help set you on the pathway to New Zealand residence by allowing you to work here.
On this visa you can come to New Zealand for a short time to work in our horticulture and viticulture industries. You must have a job offer before you apply.
People who work for diplomatic, consular and official staff in domestic roles like as a cook, nanny, driver or gardener can be granted visas to work for their employer in New Zealand.
If your partner holds a Student visa, and they support your application, you may be able to come to New Zealand to work for the same length of time allowed by your partner’s visa. To be eligible your partner must be studying towards a level 7 or 8 qualification on our Long Term Skill Shortage List, or a level 9 or 10 qualification.
People already in New Zealand on a Working Holiday Visa can extend their stay for another 3 months if they have completed at least 3 months of seasonal work in the horticulture or viticulture industries.
Crew members can enter New Zealand to join a vessel or aircraft that will then depart for another country.
If you have skills or expertise and have been offered full-time work by an accredited employer, then you may be eligible for this visa. This visa can help set you on the pathway to New Zealand residence by allowing you to work here.
Performing artists, entertainers and entertainment industry workers who are of international distinction, particular ethnic significance or who are essential to a particular production can come to New Zealand for work in an entertainment performance or production.
If you’ve been offered a job working as a crew member on a fishing vessel in New Zealand waters, you may be able to apply for a work visa. If you’re granted a visa, you’ll be able to do the work for the employer who offered it to you, until your visa expires.
Each year we invite Samoan citizens to register for a ballot that, if drawn, may result in an invitation to apply for New Zealand residence.
You can come to New Zealand for business reasons for up to 3 months in any one year.
People who have completed an acceptable qualification in New Zealand can apply for a Post-study work visa. If you are granted a visa, you can work for any employer in New Zealand and do almost any work.
If your partner is a New Zealand citizen or resident, you may be able to come with them to New Zealand and work while you’re here.
This visa allows people to work in New Zealand as part of approved work exchange schemes. While in New Zealand you’ll be paid for your work and have your accommodation provided by your work exchange scheme organiser.
Each year we invite people from Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Tonga to register for a ballot that, if drawn, allows you to apply to live in New Zealand.
If you want to return to New Zealand to live but your New Zealand Resident Visa has expired, you may be eligible for a Second or Subsequent Resident Visa.
If your partner has a work visa that’s for more than 6 months, and they support your application, you may be able to come to New Zealand to work for the same length of time as your partner’s visa.
If you have had a Global Impact Work Visa for 30 months or more, you can apply for this residence visa to live in New Zealand permanently.
You can travel to New Zealand on a private yacht or aircraft.
If you’re a citizen of the People’s Republic of China and you’re a chef, traditional medicine practitioner, Mandarin teacher’s aide, Wushu martial arts coach or tour guide, you can apply for this visa.
Students who need to do practical work experience to meet a study requirement, can apply to come to New Zealand to complete it. Medical and dental trainees, religious trainees and apprentice jockeys can also apply to do their training in New Zealand.
Religious workers, who’ve been doing religious work in New Zealand on a valid Religious Worker Work Visa for the last 3 years, may be eligible for this resident visa. To apply you’ll need an offer of continuing religious work and sponsorship from the religious organisation that’s sponsoring you now.
Religious workers who want to help New Zealanders practise, maintain and advance their religious beliefs, may apply to come to New Zealand with a view to staying here permanently, if they have the right experience and/or training.
You can apply for this visa if you have an employer supported work visa, have reported exploitation and have been given a Report of Exploitation Assessment Letter by Employment New Zealand.
You can apply for this work visa if you were the partner of a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident and you have experienced family violence.
This visa is for people taking part in the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise or New Zealand Tourism Board's Visiting Media Programme.
This visa is for people who already have a Silver Fern Job Search Work Visa or a Silver Fern Practical Experience Work Visa. To apply you’ll need to have an offer of skilled employment for 12 months or more.
This visa is for innovative entrepreneurs or investors who are selected by the Edmund Hillary Fellowship to create and support innovative ventures in New Zealand.
This visa is for citizens of the Thailand who have an offer of full-time work as a Thai chef and the qualifications and experience to do that work.
Owners or crew on super yachts can travel to New Zealand.
If you have exceptional talent in a field of art, culture or sport, then this visa can provide you with a pathway to residence in New Zealand. To apply, you’ll need to be supported by a New Zealand organisation that’s nationally-recognised in your field.
Australian citizens and permanent residents can visit, work and live in New Zealand. You do not need a visa before you travel to New Zealand.
This visa helps victims of family violence. You can apply for this visa if you were the partner of a New Zealand citizen or residence class visa holder and have experienced family violence.
You can be granted this visa if you are in New Zealand and are certified by New Zealand Police as a victim of people trafficking. This visa can help you to leave an exploitative situation and work if you need to.
People who are already in New Zealand on a student or visitor visa can apply for a work visa to do seasonal work in the horticulture or viticulture industries. People in New Zealand who hold or have held a work visa can also apply (including people who have previously held a SSE visa), if the application is made before 31 March 2022.
This visa protects people who cannot return home after being trafficked into or within New Zealand. You can be granted this visa if you are in New Zealand and hold a trafficking victim work, student or visitor visa.
If you have skills or expertise that will benefit New Zealand, you can come here for a specific purpose or event. Examples of people who may be able to apply include business people on secondments, sports players, professional coaches, specialist installers or services, and Philippines nurses seeking occupational registration.
If you’re a citizen of the People’s Republic of China and you have an offer of full-time work in an occupation considered to be skilled work under the China Skilled Workers Instructions, you can apply for this visa. You’ll need to have the necessary qualifications, experience and registration to do that work in New Zealand.
This visa can help employees who are integral to the success of the business they work for, who aren’t eligible for any other kind of resident visa, relocate to New Zealand. If you meet the conditions of the visa, which include working for your relocating employer for a 24-month period, you may be able stay in New Zealand indefinitely.
If your partner has a Military Visa, and they support your application, you may be able to come to New Zealand to work for the same length of time as your partner’s visa.
People from Japan, who are qualified to interpret and translate Japanese and English, can come to New Zealand to work in our tourism industry. To apply, you’ll need to have an offer of full-time work as an interpreter in a tourism-related industry in New Zealand.
You can visit New Zealand as an academic and participate in teaching, educational, professional management or research activities.
The APEC Business Travel Card provides its cardholders with streamlined travel processes between participating APEC countries. APEC Business Travel cardholders will be granted a visitor visa when they arrive in New Zealand, provided they have clearance from their home economy and New Zealand before they travel.
Performers and their immediate support crews can visit New Zealand to take part in approved arts and music festivals.
You can apply for this visa if you have a current work visa and you've been dismissed from your job during a trial period.
This visa is for experienced business people who want to work in their own business in New Zealand. If you’re granted this visa, you can come to New Zealand to buy or set up your own business in an initial 12-month start-up stage, then work in that business for up to 3 years. If your business is successful, you may be eligible to apply for residence.
German law students or graduates can visit New Zealand as unpaid observers with New Zealand law firms.
If you’re a citizen of Indonesia and you’re a chef, Halal slaughterer or Bahasa teacher’s aide, you can apply for this visa.
This visa allows you to work in New Zealand while your partner is here on an MFAT-funded NZ Scholarship.
Registered nurses, farm managers and engineering professionals who are citizens of the Philippines can apply for this visa.
Pitcairn Islanders can apply for a resident visa, if they've been offered skilled employment in New Zealand.
People from Chile and South Korea can do vocational study and take up work placements in primary sector industries in New Zealand. To apply, you must be supported or funded by your government and intend to return home after your training to share your new skills.
If you’re a citizen of the Republic of Korea and you have an offer of full-time work in a Republic of Korea Special Work occupation, you can apply for this visa. You’ll need to have the necessary qualifications and experience to work in that occupation in New Zealand.
Performers and their immediate support crew can apply for a visitor visa to perform in a short-term live entertainment act, in New Zealand. To apply, the entertainment act must be promoted by a promoter on our Approved Promoters List.
If you have been employed in the South Island for 2 years since being granted a South Island Contribution Work Visa you may be eligible for this resident visa.
This visa is for sports people, support staff, match and tournament officials, and media and broadcasting personnel visiting New Zealand for sports events or tours.
Citizens of Vietnam, who have been offered work as chef or engineering professional, can apply for this visa.
