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It is important to check if you need a Medical or Chest X-ray as part of your visa application. If you are currently in New Zealand any registered doctor will be able to help you. 

 

If you are living outside of New Zealand it is important that you visit a doctor that has been certified by the New Zealand Immigration Service.

 

1. If you intend to be in NZ for less than 6 months you are NOT required to submit a Medical and X-ray certificate or Temporary Entry X-ray Certificate.

 

2. If you intend to be in NZ for more than 6 months and up to 1 year and:

  • You do NOT hold a passport from a country area of territory listed below; or

  • In the 5 years prior to your application, you have spent (lived in and/or visited) a combined total of three months or more in any countries, areas or territories NOT listed in the table below,

3. If you intend to be in NZ for more than 12 months you must submit a Medical and Chest X-ray certificate.

 

NOTE: Pregnant woman and children under 11 years are not required to have an X-ray examination.

 

Countries, areas and territories with low incidence of tuberculosis (TB):

 

Andorra

Germany

Netherlands

Antigua and Barbuda

Greece

New Zealand

Australia

Grenada

Norway

Austria

Iceland

Oman

Barbados

Ireland

Puerto Rico

Belgium

Israel (Including the Occupied

Saints Kitts and Nevis

Bermuda

Palestinian territory and including

Saint Lucia

British Virgin Islands

East Jerusalem)

San Marino

Canada

Italy

Slovenia

Cayman Islands

Jamaica

Sweded

Chile

Jordan

Switzerland

Costa Rica

Lebanon

Trinidad and Tobago

Cuba

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Turks and Caicos Islands

Cyprus

Liechtenstein

United Arab Emerates

Czech Republic

Luxembourg

United Kingdom

Denmark

Malta

United States of America

Dominica

Monaco

United States Virgin Islands

Finland

Montserrat

Vatican City

France

Netherlands Antillies

 

 

 

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