Evidence of family violence for victims of family violence visas

You can provide any of these types of evidence to show you are a family violence victim when you apply for a victim of family violence visa.

Police complaint

This is a complaint made by you or someone else to the New Zealand Police where the Police have accepted that you or your dependent child has faced family violence.

Final Protection Order

This is a Final Protection Order against the New Zealand partner or person you were living in a family relationship with.

Note

You automatically get a final Protection Order after:

you have had a temporary Protection Order for 3 months, and
the person the Protection Order is against does not defend it.

Protection Orders | New Zealand Police

Police conviction

This is a New Zealand police conviction for family violence committed against you or your dependent child by:

your partner, or
someone you were living in a family relationship with.

Statutory Declaration

This is a written document completed in front of an authorised witness.

You must provide 3 statutory declarations saying you are a victim of family violence. These include:

1 statutory declaration from yourself, and
2 from professionals who can make statutory declarations for victims of family violence visas.

Making your own statutory declaration

When making your own statutory declaration, you can use a form or write it yourself.

Making a statutory declaration | Govt.nz

Getting statutory declarations from professionals

When you use professionals to make statutory declarations:

you must supply statutory declarations from 2 professionals
make sure the 2 people are unrelated professionally — for example, they cannot be a doctor and a nurse from the same hospital
make sure the declarations include the professionals’ job title and registration number — for example, Dr John Smith, New Zealand Medical Council registration number XX.

Professionals who can make statutory declarations for victims of family violence visas