Visit Visa grants permission to an applicant to enter New Zealand and stay for a specific period in which one can explore the country with their family and friends.
One is entitled to stay as a tourist up to 09 months in 18-month period. It allows an applicant to leave and re-enter the country as many times as necessary. However, you must apply at each entry point upon arrival and this visa allows you to study up to 3 months within a 12-month period. Visitor’s visa’, is a document that is placed in your passport and used to enter or re-enter New Zealand. The visa can be viewed as having valid permission to enter New Zealand for tourism, business or transit purpose. All the applicants are required to apply for a visa, at least 03 months from their travel dates.
If you are a Businessmen, an entrepreneur or keep on travelling for Business conference, events etc. to New Zealand frequently for business purposes, may be issued multiple entry visitor visas valid for a maximum period of 3 years. However, the visa decision and its validity are at the discretion of the Embassy. Also, you are strongly advised to purchase a health / travel insurance to cover yourself as medical treatment can be very expensive in New Zealand. Your travel insurance offers protection against unexpected emergencies on international travel such as coverage of medical expenses, flight delay and cancellations, passport and baggage loss or personal accident. For financial safety and security on your international trip we highly recommend you purchase travel insurance and avail our special offer.
Transit visas are only for people who will be in New Zealand for less than 24 hours and will not leave the transit area of the airport. If you will be in New Zealand for more than 24 hours or want to leave the transit area, you will need a visitor’s visa. Applying for a New Zealand Visa through us will be an easy and hassle free process. It is highly advisable to process your visa through us as we will take care of your complete visa process right from getting your documents ready to stamping of your New Zealand Visa.
Quick Overview:
- Validity of visa: Upto 09 months stay out of 18 months.
- Visa Fees: Differs country to country.
- Processing time: 16 days till 48 days (Case to case).
- Application fees: NZ $211
The Visitor visas again can be categorised into different streams as follows.
- Visitor Visa
- Business Visit
- Family Visit
Benefits of visa
- You can Visit your friends and family,
- you can explore New Zealand,
- Enjoy amateur sports and adventure activity.
- You can Study for upto 03 months.
- You can Include your partner and children aged 19 and under, in your visa application.
Criteria one must meet, to be eligible to grant a visa:
- Valid reason to visit the country, if you are applying for short term visit visa, you should convince immigration officer that your intention is to visit tourist sites and to explore the country with family or friends.
- Immigration officer might ask to show police clearance certificate.
- You must have sufficient funds in your account for your expenditure while you’re in New Zealand
- You must have return tickets to leave New Zealand.
- You must be physically fit at the time of applying visa.
(The amount of money you will need to carry may vary case to case specific and completely depends on things such as period of your stay, and the modes of accommodation like; hotel, with friends or relatives).
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