If you have a student visa you can support visitor visas for your family. Depending on your study, you may also be able to support a work visa for your partner and student visas for your children.
If you have a student visa, you can support a visitor visa for your partner and children. You may also be able to support a work visa for your partner, or student visas for your dependent children.
Partner of a Student Visitor Visa
Child of a Student Visitor Visa
Partner of a Student Work Visa
Your partner may be able to get a Partner of a Student Work Visa if you are studying:
Update to work rights for partners of a student
More about qualifications and the visas you can support are in the following sections.
We use the qualification levels from the New Zealand Qualifications and Credentials Framework.
If you are studying a level 9 or 10 qualification you can support:
If you are studying a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at a New Zealand university or as an MFAT-funded New Zealand Scholarship student – excluding Short-term Training Scholarships and English Language Training for Officials Scholarships – you can support:
If you are studying a level 7 or 8 qualification specified for a role on our Green List – listed either as a requirement or a registration qualification – you may be able to support:
Check the Green List appendix in the amendment circular for the eligible qualifications.
Amendment Circular 2024-14 PDF 283KB
If you are studying a level 7 or 8 qualification specified on our Qualifications eligible for a Post Study Work Visa list, you can support:
Qualifications eligible for a Post Study Work Visa
If your study started on or before 7 September 2022, and you are studying a level 7 or 8 qualification that is on the Long Term Skill Shortage List, your partner may still be able to get a work visa.
If you are studying under a New Zealand Government approved student exchange scheme you can support:
If you are studying for any other qualification, you can support visitor visas for your partner and children.
Depending on your study, you may be able to support a work visa for your partner, but not student visas for your dependent children. However, if you support your partner to get a work visa, they may be able to support the student visas for your children.
You are studying a level 8 qualification that is specified on the Green List. You can support a work visa for your partner, but not student visas for your dependent children.
To get student visas for your children:
Information valid as at 2024/06/26 11:16:36.960664 GMT+12