WR3.15 Making an application for a work visa or...

WR3.15 Making an application for a work visa or permit under the Long Term Skill Shortage List Work Policy

Applications for visas and permits under the Long Term Skill Shortage List Work Policy must be made on the NZIS form Application to Work in New Zealand, and

1. meet all the requirements under Generic Temporary Entry policy for lodging an application for a temporary entry visa or permit as set out at E4, except the requirement to provide evidence of funds for maintenance in New Zealand or evidence of sponsorship. This requirement is met through the provision of an offer of employment (see WR3.5); and
2. include an offer of employment in an occupation on the Long Term Skill Shortage List that meets the requirements for offers of employment set out at WR3.5; and
3. include a detailed job description and ideal person specification for that offer of employment; and
4. include evidence that the applicant is suitably qualified by training and/or experience to undertake the offer of employment; and
5. include, where necessary
   1. evidence of full or provisional registration, if full or provisional registration is required by law to take up the offer of employment (see SM19.5 for the list of occupations requiring registration); or
   2. evidence from the New Zealand Medical or Dental Council that they are eligible for full or provisional registration subject only to attending a personal interview with a Council representative within one month of their arrival in New Zealand; and

      Note: For medical practitioners, registration within a ‘special purpose scope of practice’ is not full or provisional registration for the purpose of a residence application or a work to residence application.

6. include a fully completed NZIS Medical Certificate for New Zealand, an NZIS X-ray Certificate for New Zealand (except in the case of a pregnant woman) and any associated medical or laboratory reports required for the medical or X-ray certificates; and

   Note: All medical and X-ray certificates and associated reports must be less than 3 months old at the time the application is made.

7. include police certificates from the applicant's country of citizenship and from any country in which they have lived for 5 or more years since attaining the age of 17 years.

   Note: Police certificates must be no more than 6 months old when the application is lodged.

Effective 02/03/2009