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Student Visa

If you are looking to come to New Zealand on a student visa to study full time for longer than three months, you will need to apply for a student visa.You can only get a student visat to study in a coarse at an education institute which is registered and approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. All Student visaa are processed by the New Zealand Immigration Service.

Visitor Visa

New Zealand is a great destination for a holiday or maybe to visit friends. If you are a citizen of a country that has a visa waiver agreement with New Zealand, you do not need to apply for a Visitor's Visa if you plan to visit New Zealand for three months or less. If you live in any other country you will need to apply for a Visitor Visa before you arrive.

Transit Visa

You won’t need a Transit Visa if you are from a visa-free country. For passport holders from any other visa-required country, you will need a Transit Visa if you need to stop in New Zealand either on the way to, or coming from, any Pacific Island destination listed below:

Cook Islands	Nuie	Tokelau
Fiji	Samoa	Tonga
Kiribati	Nauru	Tuvalu
Marshall Islands	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu
New Caledonia	Tahiti

Unless: you hold a current New Zealand visa that allows you to travel to New Zealand;
Or: Australia is your next or final destination and you hold a current visa allowing you to travel to Australia.

New Zealand Working Holiday Visas

The New Zealand Working Holiday visa offers the opportunity for young people from countries with exchange agreements in place to travel around New Zealand, taking up temporary work while they are there.

For most participating countries the Working Holiday Visa for New Zealand is issued for 12 months. However for UK citizens the New Zealand Working Holiday Visa is issued for 23 months, of which the UK citizen must not work for a period of more than 12 months.