Apply for this visa if you currently work for, or have a job offer from, an accredited employer, and you have worked in a care workforce role for 24 months. Apply for this visa if you currently work or you have a job offer from an accredited employer, and qualify for 6 points for your skills and work in New Zealand. You submit an expression of interest EOI. If it is accepted, we invite you to apply. Apply for this visa if you currently work, or you have a job offer, from an accredited employer, and your role is on Tier 1 of the Green List in-demand.
Apply for this visa if you currently work for, or have a job offer from, an accredited employer, and have worked in New Zealand for 24 months in a transport role. Apply for this visa if you currently work for, or have a job offer from, an accredited employer, and have worked in a Tier 2 Green List in-demand role for 24 months.
If your partner is a New Zealand citizen or resident, you can apply to become a New Zealand resident. Your partner must support your application. If you have worked in New Zealand for more than 2 years while holding a Long Term Skill Shortage Work Visa, you may be eligible for this residence visa. Parents, who have an adult child who is a New Zealand citizen or resident, can apply to live in New Zealand permanently. If you have worked in New Zealand for an accredited employer for more than 2 years, you may be eligible for this residence visa.
If you held a Talent Accredited Employer Work Visa and been employed in New Zealand by an accredited employer for more than 2 years, you may be eligible for this residence visa. If you are a New Zealand citizen or resident and you live here, you can apply for your dependent children to move to New Zealand to live with you. If your children are granted residence, they can live in New Zealand permanently. This visa is for people who have been self-employed in their own business in New Zealand for at least 6 months, or have operated a business for two years on another visa that allows self-employment.
Each year we invite Samoan citizens to register for a ballot that, if drawn, may result in an invitation to apply for New Zealand residence.
