Need help with your move to New Zealand? We specialise in helping with applications for those immigrating and applying for residency.

RESIDENCY VISAS

This visa type enables you to come to New Zealand and request entry permission.  
A resident visa will expire if you are outside New Zealand and the travel conditions on your resident visa are past their expiry date.  

Talk to a Licensed Immigration Adviser regarding current available category options as immigration policy changes quickly and some categories are open, others closed at times.

Family Category

For partners / children / parents of New Zealand citizens or resident visa holders.

Business Category

This is for entrepreneurs who establish business in NZ, employees of relocating businesses and migrants able to invest large amounts of money in New Zealand.

Skilled Migrant Category

This is a point based system for selective skilled migrants.
Talk to a Licensed Immigration Adviser to calculate your potential points.  
Points should not be claimed without the ability to prove the claim. 

Residence from Work Category / work to residence

This is a next step visa for Employees who have been working for a period of at least 24 months (3 years for religious workers) on a work visa and meet requirements.  

International / Humanitarian Category

For refugees / certain nationalities / certain victims of family violence.

PERMANENT RESIDENCY VISAS

Few people qualify for a Permanent Resident Visa without first holding a Resident Visa, but there are exceptions.

The norm is that you are required to have held a Resident Visa for at least 24 months continuously (have met all conditions of the visa) as well as meeting one of five commitment criteria to New Zealand and character requirements. 
Talk to a Licensed Immigration Adviser.

A Permanent Resident Visa holder is entitled to be granted entry permission into New Zealand at any time and stay in New Zealand indefinitely.  

You can then go on to qualify for NZ Citizenship [if you so desire] at a calculated time.

New Zealand allows its citizens to hold multiple citizenship.  However, some countries do not.