What you need to apply
Check if you are eligible to apply for this visa and what supporting documents and information you need to provide.
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- 1 acceptable photo if you apply online, or 2 photos if you use a paper application form.
- your passport or certificate of identity.
Acceptable photos
If you apply online, you must upload a copy of your passport when you apply. We will let you know if you need to send your passport after you have applied.
Providing your passport for online applications
If you submit a paper application, provide your original passport or a certified copy. We can usually process your application faster if you provide your original passport.
You must also provide your Kartu Keluarga.
If you are not a French national, you must provide a copy of your carte d’assuré.
Even if your partner and children aren’t coming with you, please also provide:
- copies of their passports
- acopy of your livret de famille.
You must also provide a copy of your livret de famille.
Also provide a copy of your Identity card.
Also provide your:
- Hukou (household registration book)
- Chineseidentity card.
If you are a citizen of China and you submit a paper application form in China, you must also complete a supplementary form.
Supplementary form for Chinese citizens (INZ 1027) PDF 338KB
If you are submitting a paper application form, you must provide a supplementary form for Hong Kong and Macao visitors, workers and students.
Supplementary form for Hong Kong and Macao visitors, workers and students (INZ 1220) PDF 240KB
We may ask you to have a chest x-ray, a medical examination or both as proof of your good health.
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.
Who needs an x-ray or medical examination
When we process your application we let you know if we need you to have a chest x-ray or medical examination.
Acceptable standard of health criteria for visa approvals
Please only provide medical certificates if requested
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Full fee paying students don’t usually need to provide a medical certificate.
You will need to get a chest X-ray if you’re from, or have spent time in a country where Tuberculosis (TB) is common.
You must provide a chest x-ray completed in the last 3 months, even if you've provided one to us previously, if:
- you have spent 6 consecutive months in China since the last x-ray certificate was issued, and
- you are now coming to NZ for more than 6 months.
You may need to provide police certificates as proof of your good character.
If you are aged 17 and over, and will stay in New Zealand for more than 24 months (this includes any time you have already spent in New Zealand), you must provide police certificates from:
- your country(s) of citizenship
- any country(s) you've spent more than 5 years in since turning 17.
You do not need to provide police certificates if:
- you have providedthem to us with an earlier visaapplication, and they were issued in the previous36 months, or
- you are under 20 years of age and have held a student visa (or consecutive student visas) on and since the date you turned 17 and are applying for a further student visa.
Good character
Police certificates
When we decide if your intentions are genuine, we consider all the information:
- you provide to support your application
- we have about your personal circ*mstances, and
- you provided in any previous applications.
Genuine intentions to visit, study or work in NZ
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If your course has an English language or academic requirement, provide academic and English reports that show you meet those requirements.
These reports can include the online verification report for current tertiary study, and IELTS or TOEFL test results.
Your offer of place — or if you are a returning student, your confirmation of enrolment — must include:
- the name of your course and how long the course is for
- confirmation that your tuition fees will be paid by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- whether your study will be full-time, part-time or as a distance learning or correspondence student
- if your course is for more than one academic year, the dates of all of the course’s scheduled holidays
- if you’re under 18, confirmation that your accommodation complies with the ‘Code of Pastoral Care for International Students’.
Offers of place must also include your approvededucation provider’s signed declaration that they’ve assessed and are satisfied that:
- the programme offered is appropriate for your expectations
- you have the English language ability and academic capability to succeed
Code of Pastoral Care for International Students
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It’s OK if you provide information about your scheduled holidays in a separate document.
You must provide evidence that you have paid the tuition fees for 1 course or 1 year of study (whichever is shorter).
Evidence can include any one of the following:
- Letter from your approved education provider showing fees are paid or that you don’t have to pay fees
- Evidence that your home country government loan has been applied for, and confirmation from the education provider they expect to receive the fees
- Evidence you’ve applied for a home country government loan and confirmation that you’re enrolling in a bachelor degree programme or higher at a Private Training Establishment (PTE)
- Evidence you have a scholarship from your education provider.
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For applications processed outside New Zealand, evidence of payment isn’t required until after the application has been approved in principle.
If you study multiple courses, or a single course for more than one year, you must provide evidence you have enough money to pay tuition fees for 1 course or 1 year of study, and also how you will pay your tuition fees for subsequent years.
- You must declare in your visa application that you agree to arrange and hold insurance.
- Your insurance policy must cover you from the date that you arrive in New Zealand until the day you leave.
- Your insurance policy must cover all of the following:
- travel (this includes travel to and from New Zealand, within New Zealand, and outside New Zealand if travelling as part of the course)
- medical care in New Zealand, including diagnosis, prescription, surgery, and hospitalisation
- the transportation out of New Zealand as a result of serious illness or injury, including cover of travel costs incurred by family members assisting the student
- death (including cover of the travel costs of family members to and from New Zealand, costs ofrepatriation, and funeral expenses).
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students don’t need to hold insurance.
You can arrangeinsurance through your education provider. If you are arranging your own insurance, your education provider can give you more information about what your policy must cover.
If you already have a Student Visa and you’re applying for another Student Visa, you must provide photocopied evidence of your previous student performance, progress and attendance. This can include:
- academic transcripts
- a letter from your approved education provider
- attendance records.
Evidence can include:
- proof that you have NZD $20,000 per year of tertiary, English language, or other non-compulsory school study or $1,667 per month if your study will be shorter than 1 year. If you are studying in compulsory education (years 1-13 at a school), you will need NZD $17,000 per yearor $1,417 per month
- documents that show your living costs have been paid — for example, for a school homestay where you will live with a local family while you study
- a 'Sponsorship Form for Temporary Entry' completed by an acceptable sponsor
- a completed 'Financial Undertaking for a Student' form.
What sponsors must do – responsibilities and obligations
Sponsorship Form for Temporary Entry (INZ 1025) PDF 414KB
Financial Undertaking for a Student (INZ 1014) PDF 535KB
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The only evidence you must provide is a written guarantee of maintenance from a relative in New Zealand. This relative must be a New Zealand citizen or resident.
You may be able to use the Funds Transfer Scheme to show that you will be able to access your funds in New Zealand.
Funds Transfer Scheme
If youare applying in South Asia, you need to provide acceptable evidence you can comfortably afford to study in New Zealand.
Evidence of funds to support your study
If you’re applying in South Asia, only immediate family are able to sponsor you or provide a financial undertaking. Immediate family are your partner, parents, siblings, grandparents and parents-in-law.
Ifyou are in New Zealand andapplying for a further student visa as a fee paying tertiary student, you can only be sponsored if your first student visa was sponsored.
Sponsorship must be by the same person or organisation that acted as the sponsor for your initial visa application.
If you study for more than 1 year, you must provide evidence you have enough money to support yourself for your first year and show how you will pay your living costs for the following years.
Evidence of how you will pay for the following years must be money you can access while you are in New Zealand such as savings or family income.
Depending on what city you live in while you are in New Zealand, you might need more than NZD $17,000 per year (NZD $1,417 per month) to live on while you are studying.
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Evidence can include:
- your travel ticket
- proof you have enough money to buy a ticket out of New Zealand, in addition to the funds you have to live on
- a 'Sponsorship Form for Temporary Entry' completed by an acceptable sponsor.
What sponsors must do – responsibilities and obligations
Sponsorship Form for Temporary Entry (INZ 1025) PDF 414KB
If you must be accompanied, you must provide proof that your parent or legal guardian cares for you in your home country and has the legal right to provide care for you.
Evidence your parent or legal guardian cares for you in your home country can include:
- your parent or guardian’s passport, or residence document showing that you’ve been living with them in your home country
- documents that show they’ve paid for your education
- educational records or documents that show they’re responsible for your education
Evidence your parent or legal guardian has the legal right to provide care for you can include:
- your birth certificate or adoption papers (if they are your parent)
- court documents (if they are a court-appointed guardian)
- relevant legal documents if they are a testamentary guardian (i.e. they were named as guardian in your parents’ will, and your parents are deceased).
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Your parent or legal guardian must apply separately for the type of visa they need.
If you have to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, you must live with that person while you’re studying.
You should provide copies of identity cards for family members included in your application.
You should provide copies offamily members Hukou (household registration book)included in your application.
You must have permission to work up to 20 hours a week and/or full-time in the summer holidays from each of the following:
- your parents or legal guardian
- your approved education provider.
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If you’re 18 or over, you don’t need permission to work over the summer holidays. We won’t grant work rights to children under 16 who have a Student Visa.
If you’re allowed to work full-time in the holidays, proof:
- of the holidays scheduled by your approved education provider, as shown in your offer of place document
- that your course value is 120 credits – this information may be on your fee receipt or invoice, or other correspondence provided by your approved education provider.
Evidence can include either of the following:
- a letter from your approved education provider
- a course outline that shows the practical component requirement, as shown in your offer of place document.
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Any practical work experience you need to do complete your course can be worked in addition to the other hours your visa conditions allow you to work.
