If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand.
Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the processing of these applications and must present the following documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate, Embassy or Immigration New Zealand office:
A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
The applicant’s original passport.
A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from the Tour Company. This letter would also include the job title and the salary for the specific applicant, the length of time the applicant will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the Immigration New Zealand, Receiving Offices can be found on the Immigration New Zealand website.
Is your passport ready to travel?
Before you travel to New Zealand, please check that your passport is ready for the trip. Your passport must be:
Valid for at least three months beyond your intended departure date.
Not damaged, defaced or excessively worn.
Showing a visa or permit, if you require one.
Do you need a visa or permit?
You do not need a visa or permit to visit New Zealand if you are an Australian citizen travelling on an Australian passport, or if you are an Australian resident with a current Australian resident return visa.
How long can you stay?
Citizens and permanent residents of Australia (who do not have certain criminal convictions) may visit, live, study and work in New Zealand indefinitely.
Work Visa's required by Tour Guides
If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand. Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the processing of these applications and must present the following documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate or Embassy.
1) A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
2) The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
3) One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
4) The applicant’s original passport.
5) A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from the Tour Company. This letter would also include the length of time the applicant will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
6) The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
7) To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the New Zealand Immigration Service, Receiving Offices can be found on the New Zealand Immigration Service website.
Is your passport ready to travel?
Before you travel to New Zealand, please check that your passport is ready for the trip. Your passport must be:
Valid for at least three months beyond your intended departure date.
Not damaged, defaced or excessively worn.
Showing a visa or permit, if you require one.
Do you need a visa or permit?
USA has a visa waiver agreement with New Zealand. If you hold a USA* passport, you don't need a visa to enter New Zealand for up to three months. However, you are still required to provide:
Travel tickets or evidence of onward travel arrangements
Evidence that your can support yourself in New Zealand (approximately NZ$1000 per month per person).
If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand.
Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the processing of these applications and must present the following documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate, Embassy or Immigration New Zealand office:
A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
The applicant’s original passport.
A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from the Tour Company. This letter would also include the job title and the salary for the specific applicant, the length of time the applicant will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the Immigration New Zealand, Receiving Offices can be found on the Immigration New Zealand website.
* Including nationals of the USA.
Is your passport ready to travel?
Before you travel to New Zealand, please check that your passport is ready for the trip. Your passport must be:
Valid for at least three months beyond your intended departure date.
Not damaged, defaced or excessively worn.
Showing a visa or permit, if you require one.
Do you need a visa or permit?
Canada has a visa waiver agreement with New Zealand. If you hold a Canadian passport, you don't need a visa to enter New Zealand for up to three months.
However, you are still required to provide:
• Travel tickets or evidence of onward travel arrangements
• Evidence that your can support yourself in New Zealand (approximately NZ$1000 per month per person).
As of January 2008, any Canadian citizen with no criminal record only requires a Canadian passport to transit through the United States to New Zealand. Canadian citizens with any criminal record should contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Customs and Border Protection (DHS/CBP) at a Port of Entry well in advance of travel through the United States to check his or her eligibility to travel through the United States.
If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour
guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work
visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand.
Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the
processing of these applications and must present the following
documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate, Embassy or
Immigration New Zealand office:
A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
The applicant’s original passport.
A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from
the Tour Company. This letter would also include the job title and the
salary for the specific applicant, the length of time the applicant
will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over
the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the Immigration New Zealand, Receiving Offices can be found on the Immigration New Zealand website.
Is your passport ready to travel?
Before you travel to New Zealand, please check that your passport is ready for the trip. Your passport must be:
Valid for at least three months beyond your intended departure date.
Not damaged, defaced or excessively worn.
Showing a visa or permit, if you require one.
Do you need a visa or permit?
If you are a British citizen and or British passport holder who can produce evidence of the right to reside permanently in the UK, you don’t need a visa to visit New Zealand for up to six months.
If you hold an Irish passport you don't need a visa to enter New Zealand for up to three months, because Ireland has a visa waiver agreement with New Zealand. However, you are still required to provide:
Travel tickets or evidence of onward travel arrangements
Evidence that your can support yourself in New Zealand (approximately NZ$1000 per month per person).
How do you apply for a Visitor’s Visa?
If you wish to stay longer than three or six months, you will need to apply for a Visitor's Visa. You can download application forms from the Visitor Visa page of the New Zealand Immigration Service website, or contact your nearest New Zealand Embassy.
If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand. Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the processing of these applications and must present the following documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate or Embassy.
1) A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
2) The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
3) One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
4) The applicant’s original passport.
5) A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from the Tour Company. This letter would also include the length of time the applicant will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
6) The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
7) To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the New Zealand Immigration Service, Receiving Offices can be found on the New Zealand Immigration Service website.
Is your passport ready to travel?
Before you travel to New Zealand, please check that your passport is ready for the trip. Your passport must be:
Valid for at least three months beyond your intended departure date.
Not damaged, defaced or excessively worn.
Showing a visa or permit, if you require one.
Do you need a visa or permit?
If you are a British citizen and or British passport holder who can produce evidence of the right to reside permanently in the UK, you don’t need a visa to visit New Zealand for up to six months.
If you hold an Irish passport you don't need a visa to enter New Zealand for up to three months, because Ireland has a visa waiver agreement with New Zealand. However, you are still required to provide:
Travel tickets or evidence of onward travel arrangements
Evidence that your can support yourself in New Zealand (approximately NZ$1000 per month per person).
How do you apply for a Visitor’s Visa?
If you wish to stay longer than three or six months, you will need to apply for a Visitor's Visa. You can download application forms from the Visitor Visa page of the New Zealand Immigration Service website, or contact your nearest New Zealand Embassy.
If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand. Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the processing of these applications and must present the following documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate or Embassy.
1) A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
2) The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
3) One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
4) The applicant’s original passport.
5) A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from the Tour Company. This letter would also include the length of time the applicant will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
6) The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
7) To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the New Zealand Immigration Service, Receiving Offices can be found on the New Zealand Immigration Service website.
Is your passport ready to travel?
Before you travel to New Zealand, please check that your passport is ready for the trip. Your passport must be:
Valid for at least three months beyond your intended departure date.
Not damaged, defaced or excessively worn.
Showing a visa or permit, if you require one.
Do you need a visa or permit?
All Indian passport holders require a Visa to visit New Zealand.
Immigration New Zealand, New Delhi is part of the Department of Labour, New Zealand and deals with the issuance of all visas (migration, visitors, work and student) for travel to New Zealand for applicants from India, Nepal and Bangladesh and Bhutan. Whilst the main office is based at the New Zealand High Commission in New Delhi, there are also offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkatta, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Cochin where applications are received.
These offices are operated by a company called T. T. Services who are contracted to NZIS to do this work. All applications should be forwarded to one of the T. T. Services offices - not to the High Commission. T. T. Services will then send them to the office at the High Commission for processing.
If you are travelling with a group of visitors and acting as a tour guide or a tour leader in a co-ordination role, you require a work visa.
All Tour Guides must obtain work visas, prior to their arrival in New Zealand.
Tour Guides should allow, at least, 10 working days for the processing of these applications and must present the following documentation to the nearest New Zealand Consulate, Embassy or Immigration New Zealand office:
A fully completed, signed and dated work visa application form.
The work visa fee, if applicable, is payable by Money Order or Company Cheque.
One recent passport type photograph of the applicant.
The applicant’s original passport.
A letter of introduction and guarantee of financial support from the Tour Company. This letter would also include the job title and the salary for the specific applicant, the length of time the applicant will be in New Zealand and how many visits the guide will conduct over the next 2 years. Multiple entry work visas can be applied for.
The Tour Company's most recent promotional booklet which demonstrates that the company is a bona fides business.
To enable the safe and timely return of the applicant's passport, a self addressed, prepaid, courier airway bill.
Work Visa application forms and information relating to the Immigration New Zealand, Receiving Offices can be found on the Immigration New Zealand website.
