Guides
The questions people actually ask
Written for the situation rather than the visa category, and every one of them carries the date its facts were last checked against Immigration New Zealand.
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ProblemsWhat a PPI letter means, and how to respond
PPI stands for potentially prejudicial information. Getting one is serious and it is also an opportunity, and the deadline on it is short.
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ProblemsYour visa was declined. What now?
A decline letter says more than it appears to. What was decided determines which options remain, and most of them are time limited.
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DocumentsPolice certificates: which countries, and when
Most people need more than one, and most people work that out too late. Start these before anything else in your application.
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DocumentsMedical examinations and the health requirements
Your own doctor cannot do this, however thorough they are. It has to be a doctor on the approved panel, and it is one of the two slowest documents.
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Partner and familyProving a genuine and stable relationship
Genuine couples are declined on evidence, not on authenticity. The gap is usually coverage: documents that show a shared life across the whole period.
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PlanningThe real cost of moving to New Zealand
People budget for the application and are caught out by everything around it. Most of the real cost is in documents, tests, travel and the first two months here.
How these are written
Why you will not find a fee or a points total here
Immigration New Zealand's fees, wage thresholds, points totals and processing times change, and they are exactly the figures people find on an old page and rely on. A number printed here would be wrong within a year and would still be findable years later.
So each guide links to the Immigration New Zealand page that holds the figure, and carries the date its facts were last checked. If anything here disagrees with Immigration New Zealand, they are right.
Licensed advice
Need advice on your own situation?
This site explains how the rules work. It cannot tell you what will happen in your case, because that depends on facts only an adviser who has seen your file can weigh up.
In New Zealand it is a criminal offence to give immigration advice without a licence or an exemption. ProVisas holds IAA licence 201301110.