Visitor Visa

Conditions you must meet

• Be in good health

  be in good health

• Be of good character

  be of good character

• Have genuine reasons for coming to New Zealand

  have genuine reasons for coming to New Zealand

• Have enough money for living expenses, or an acceptable sponsor

  have enough money to pay your living expenses, or have an acceptable sponsor

• Show you can leave New Zealand at the end of your stay

  show you can leave New Zealand at the end of your stay.

• Do not plan to work in New ZealandINZ states the exception on the same line: remote work for a business overseas is permitted.

  not plan to work in New Zealand, unless you work remotely for a business overseas

• A criminal conviction or security risk may prevent a visaRecorded so a conviction is never presented to a user as automatically disqualifying — INZ says 'might not'.

  If you have a criminal conviction, or are a security risk to New Zealand, we might not give you a visa.

• Hold at least NZD $1,000 per month, or NZD $400 if accommodation is pre-paidNZD 1,000 per month · NZD 400 per month if accommodation is prepaidApplies when the applicant funds the stay themselves; an acceptable sponsor is the alternative.

  If you are paying for yourself You must have at least NZD $1,000 a month, or NZD $400 a month if you have already paid for your accommodation.

• Funds evidence must name the account holder, bank and currency

  Evidence must show: the bank account is in the applicant's name which bank the account is with, and which currency the money is in.

• Stay of up to 6 or 9 monthsWhich of the two applies is decided by INZ on the application, so no rule is attached.

  Length of stay Up to either 6 months or 9 months

• Study is limited to 3 months

  You cannot work, but you can study for up to 3 months.

Documents you must provide

• Police certificates less than 6 months oldINZ's second condition is a total stay of 24 months or longer, encoded here as 730 days because the rule engine compares days. Rarely reached on this visa, whose maximum stay is 9 months, but it applies when earlier time in New Zealand is counted.

  You must provide police certificates that are less than 6 months old when you apply, if: you are aged 17 or older, and

• Evidence of funds

  Evidence can include: proof of accommodation pre-payment, like hotel pre-paid vouchers or receipts bank statements or credit card statements bank drafts or traveller's cheques.

Government fees

• Visitor visa application feefrom NZD 441INZ publishes this as a 'from' price on the visa page; the final fee depends on where the application is made.

  Cost From NZD $441

Also stated by the authority

Not requirements in themselves. These are alternatives, exemptions, rights and warnings the authority publishes alongside the requirements — quoted here because they can change what applies to you.

• May be asked for a chest x-ray, a medical examination, or bothINZ frames this as something it MAY require, not a universal step, so it is not recorded as officially required.

  We may ask you to have a chest X-ray, a medical examination or both as proof of your health.

• Health evidence thresholds by length of stayNo rule attached. The sentence sets two different thresholds for two different documents and says 'not normally' for both; encoding that as a boolean gate would turn a soft default into a hard answer.

  If you are staying less than: 6 months, you do not normally need a chest X-ray 12 months, you do not normally need a medical certificate.