Who is this data for?

This guide is for people who have not recently had a worldwide understudy visa supported. It frames what is expected to evaluate your application as effectively as could be expected.

This guide gives subtleties on the most proficient method to present an understudy visa application with the important data and proof that a movement official necessitates to assess your application. Heeding the guidance in this guide can assist with speeding up the handling of your application, yet it doesn't ensure endorsement.

In certain cases, a Migration Official might demand extra data during their evaluation that isn't canvassed in this aide. While they are not expected to do as such, it is urgent to guarantee that you present all the important data to help your global understudy visa application.

Instructions to Apply

You can apply for your understudy visa online by visiting: Apply for your visa on the web | Migration New Zealand. A nitty gritty aide is likewise accessible to assist you with setting up your application.

When to Apply

We suggest applying something like four months before your expected travel date, albeit this may not be achievable for everybody. There is no severe cutoff time for presenting your application, however you ought to permit at least two months for visa handling.

For the most recent understudy visa handling times, if it's not too much trouble, visit: Visa handling times for global understudies.

Interpretations

On the off chance that your police testaments are not in English, you should give a guaranteed interpretation. Moreover, kindly submit English interpretations of all supporting records alongside duplicates of the first untranslated reports. This will assist us with handling your application all the more proficiently.

For more data, visit: [Translating supporting records into English](https://immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/setting up a-visa-application/english-language/making an interpretation of supporting-reports into-english).

Travel Plan

Kindly try not to finish your movement courses of action until your visa has been allowed. We can't focus on your application in light of booked itinerary items.

Migration Exhortation and Assistance

On the off chance that you get movement counsel as a feature of your understudy visa application or on the other hand assuming somebody helps you by making sense of, deciphering, or recording data on the structure, you should proclaim this in your application. The individual helping you should finish the understudy visa statement structure [INZ 1226](https://immigration.govt.nz/records/structures and-guides/inz1226.pdf).

Just authorized experts or those absolved from permitting are approved to offer migration guidance. Schooling specialists outside New Zealand exhorting on understudy visas just are absolved, however they actually should be pronounced in the visa application.

For additional subtleties on who can offer migration guidance, visit: [Who can offer guidance? | IAA](https://iaa.govt.nz/for-travelers/who-can-offer guidance).

Understudies Matured Under 10 Years Old

Global understudies under 10 years of age might be conceded an understudy visa on the off chance that they are living in New Zealand with a legitimate watchman or in a supported school inn.

Understudies Matured Under 18 Years Old

Global understudies under 18 should give an assertion from their schooling supplier affirming that their convenience follows the Instruction (Peaceful Consideration of Tertiary and Worldwide Students) Code of Training 2021. This assertion might be remembered for the proposal of spot or given independently.

1. Offer of Place

   Incorporate an authority deal of spot from a perceived New Zealand schooling supplier.

2. Passport Copy

   Give a duplicate of the personality pages from your ongoing visa, which you intend to use for movement to New Zealand. Guarantee the whole bio-information page is filtered, including the machine-discernible zone (MRZ) at the base.

3. Tuition Charges Evidence

   You really want to give evidence of how you will pay your educational expenses. Satisfactory types of proof include:

   - Confirmation that you have paid the full educational expenses for one year or one program, whichever is more limited.

   - Verification of adequate assets to pay your educational expenses on the off chance that you are applying from outside New Zealand and involving the Endorsement On a basic level (AIP) course.

   - Affirmation of charge exclusion from your schooling supplier if pertinent.

   - Assuming you are a qualified flying understudy, evidence that you meet the measures to pay educational expenses by portion.

Note: Proof of educational expense installment ought to be a receipt or affirmation from your schooling supplier. Screen captures of bank moves or receipts from instruction specialists are not satisfactory.

4. Approval On a basic level (AIP)

   - Assuming you are applying from outside New Zealand, you have the choice to pay your educational expenses after your visa has been supported on a basic level. You should submit verification of educational expense installment subsequent to getting AIP to have your visa conceded.

   - AIP cutoff times are commonly 5 days (10 days for India). On the off chance that you really want additional time, demand an expansion from the Migration Official straightaway. Missing the AIP cutoff time might bring about your application being declined.

   - You are not expected to utilize AIP. Paying your educational expenses forthright can bring about quicker handling, yet you should give proof of the wellspring of the assets utilized for installment.

5. Evidence of Adequate Assets for Living Expenses

   You should show that you have sufficient cash to take care of your living expenses while in New Zealand. This cash should be from an undeniable source and truly accessible for your utilization. The expected sums are:

   - NZD $20,000 each year for tertiary, English language, or other non-school review, or NZD $1,667 each month assuming your review is short of what one year.

   - NZD $17,000 each year for essential, middle, or optional school (years 1-13), or NZD $1,417 each month assuming your review is short of what one year.

   Prepaid convenience costs, for example, homestay, can be deducted.

   Adequate proof incorporates:

   - Cash held by you or for your benefit.

   - Confirmation of a grant.

   - Reserves held as a component of the Assets Move Plan (FTS), accessible just to understudies from China, India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.

   - A monetary endeavor by a non-New Zealander utilizing the [Financial Undertaking for an Understudy structure (INZ 1014)](https://immigration.govt.nz/reports/structures and-guides/inz1014.pdf).

   - Sponsorship by Another Zealander, New Zealand home visa holder, or New Zealand association utilizing the [Sponsorship Structure for Brief Passage (INZ 1025)](https://immigration.govt.nz/reports/structures and-guides/inz1025.pdf).

   For additional subtleties on adequate proof, see the areas on 'Supporting Data' and 'Instances of Proof' later in this archive.

6. Evidence of Assets to Leave New Zealand

   You should likewise give proof that you have adequate assets to leave New Zealand, for example, a completely paid return ticket or confirmation of extra assets to buy a ticket.

7. Health and Character Evidence

   Contingent upon your expected length of stay and your past movement history, you might be expected to:

   - Go through a clinical assessment or chest x-beam by a board doctor. To decide whether this concerns you, visit [Who needs a x-beam or clinical exam](https://immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/setting up a-visa-application/clinical data/when-you-want an-x-beam or-clinical assessment).

   - Give a police testament (and a guaranteed interpretation in the event that it isn't in English) to exhibit great person. To check in the event that this is required, visit [Who needs to give police certificates](https://immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/setting up a-visa-application/character-and-personality/when-you-really want a-police-endorsement).

Supporting Data and Evidence

We firmly suggest including the accompanying supporting data with your visa application. This will assist us with handling your application all the more effectively and decide if you:

- Are a certifiable candidate.

- Are not liable to outstay your visa.

- Are not prone to penetrate your visa conditions.

- Will leave New Zealand in the event that you can't get another visa.

Introductory Letter or Articulation of Purpose

Albeit not compulsory, presenting an introductory letter or mission statement can facilitate your application. This archive ought to be composed by you and include:

   - The reasons you picked this instruction supplier and course.

   - Subtleties of your past schooling and preparing, as well as any ongoing investigations, including courses began outside New Zealand.

   - Data on how you intend to support your investigations, including:

     - A rundown of the monetary proof furnished with your application and the wellspring of these assets.

     - An arrangement for funding future long periods of study if pertinent, including supporting proof (e.g., parent's compensation and business subtleties).

- In the event that you are upheld by a monetary underwriter or support, give proof of your relationship to them.

Travel History and Visa Records

   - Incorporate duplicates of all pages from your ongoing identification that contain visa marks, leave stamps, section stamps, or undoing stamps. Assuming that these are in a past visa, give duplicates from that identification.

   - In the event that your movement history is recorded electronically, give an outline of your worldwide travel.

   - Assuming that you have gotten any declined visa applications for different nations, incorporate duplicates of the letters you got and the explanations behind the decays.