U14.5 Requirements to be granted a pathway student visa (07/12/2015)

To be granted a pathway student visa, an applicant must:

1. be offered an eligible study pathway from a qualifying provider (U14.20);
2. meet the general requirements to be granted a student visa as set out at U3.1;
3. meet the additional evidential requirements for pathway student visa set out at U14.5.1;
4. make an application for a student visa before 7 June 2017.

U14.5.1 Evidence of meeting requirements

1. In addition to meeting the general requirements to be granted a student visa as set out at U3.1, when applying for a pathway student visa an applicant must provide:
   1. A joint covering letter from pathway education providers setting out the pathway programmes of study and start and end dates of each programme of study;
   2. An offer of place (or joint offer) for each programme of study that meets the requirements set out at U3.5;
   3. Evidence that tuition fee requirements, as set out at U3.10, for either the first programme of study or first year of study (whichever is shorter) have been met and satisfy an immigration officer that they have the ability to fund the remaining balance of the first programme of study and subsequent programmes of study on the intended pathway; and
   4. Evidence that the maintenance funds requirements set out in U3.20 for the first year of study on the intended pathway have been met and satisfy an immigration officer that they have the ability to fund the remaining balance of the first programme of study and subsequent programmes of study on the intended pathway.
2. Despite (a)(ii), second and subsequent offers of place for a pathway can be conditional on meeting pre-requisite programme of study entry criteria.
3. Where the intended pathway is a English language programme of study culminating in a qualification at Levels 5 to 7 on the NZQF, applicants must submit an International English language Testing System (IELTS) test (or equivalent internationally recognised test) at the time of application demonstrating that they only require 0.5 of an IELTS overall band score (or equivalent) to meet the English language prerequisite for entry into the intended level 5 to 7 programme of study.

Effective 07/12/2015