Immigration to New Zealand

There are four main entry categories available for people wishing to migrate to New Zealand: Skilled Migrant, Work to Residence, Family, and Business.

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/ The website will enable a user to Lodge an Expression of Interest in becoming a resident under our Skilled Migrant Category.
Use the Working Holiday Schemes Online system. Apply for a Visitor's Permit using our Visitor's Online Service. Search NetworkZ Online to find job vacancies or skilled people looking for work in New Zealand. Create an online 'suitcase' where you can store and manage your frequently-accessed pages.

Immigration New Zealand charges processing fees for applications under all entry categories. Under a number of bilateral agreement, there are some countries that have fee exemptions. These include the US, Japan, Italy, Austria and Finland.

Skilled Migrant Category fees
When you apply for residence under the Skilled Migrant Category, there are three key payments that you'll need to make:

Expression of Interest
There are two different non-refundable application fees for submitting an Expression of Interest. If you apply online it will cost you NZ$315 or if you apply using the hard copy (paper) application, you will pay NZ$465.

Application for Residence
If you are invited to apply for residence under the Skilled Migrant Category, you will need to pay a fee to lodge your application.

Migrant Levy
Please be aware that if you are approved for residence you will have to pay a migrant levy of NZ$300 (in addition to the standard Visa/Permit application fees) before you will receive your Residence Visa or Permit. Each person included in the application, up to a maximum of four people, has to pay the Migrant Levy. This means that the most you will have to pay is NZ$1,200.

Gaining New Zealand Residence

First steps
Before you start the process of applying for residence, you need to ensure that, at an absolute minimum, you: Are healthy, Are of good character
With your application you’ll need to include police certificates as evidence of good character for yourself and all other members of your family aged 17 years and over. Have a high standard of English:
Requirements may vary slightly by category, but generally you (and everyone else aged 16 or over who is accompanying you) should be able to read, write, understand and speak English to a high standard.

It is a good idea to contact the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) before you arrive, to ensure that your qualifications are on a par with ours. In some instances you may need to consider extra study or training in order to get the job you want.

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Qualifications Authority quality-assures secondary and tertiary qualifications and education providers, evaluates overseas qualifications and administers the New Zealand Register of Quality Assured Qualifications and the National Qualifications Framework, including the NCEA.

In 2005 The New Zealand government started calling on "Kiwis" in a campaign to try to tempt them back home from Britain. Low unemployment and a skilled worker shortage means ministers want expat workers living abroad to return. An estimated 500,000 New Zealanders, out of a population of 4 million, live abroad - about 54,000 in the UK. Posters on the London Underground and advertising campaigns on websites popular among expats will be some of the tactics used in the return drive. It was launched by New Zealand's Immigration Minister Cunliffe on Monday.

Prior to applying for residence you may wish to come to New Zealand temporarily to find out more about life here. This may be as a tourist, as a student undertaking a course of study or as a worker on a temporary working visa.

Employer desire

A new website http://newzealandnow.info/ has job opportunities in the country and information on moving home. Mr Cunliffe said: "New Zealanders have always travelled and we know that three-quarters of our overseas population are either intending to come home at some time or will consider the option of coming home.

New Zealand House is a building located in The Haymarket, London, off Pall Mall. It is the home of the High Commission of New Zealand to the United Kingdom. As well as containing the offices of the High Commissioner, the building also hosts the New Zealand consulate in London and the military attaché.

In 2000 Hundreds of Chinese Indonesians began a public battle with immigration officials to stay in New Zealand. They said they will be persecuted if they return home. Most arrived in New Zealand in 1998, fleeing the May riots in which native Indonesian Muslim militants attacked the mostly Christian ethnic Chinese.

New Zealand is dominated by two cultural groups: New Zealanders of Caucasian descent, and Maori - whose Polynesian ancestors arrived on the islands around 1,000 years ago.
European settlement in the 19th century led to the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) between representatives of the British Crown and Maori chiefs.
Population: 4 million (Statistics New Zealand, 2004)
Capital: Wellington
Area: 270,534 sq km (104,454 sq miles)
Major languages: English, Maori
Life expectancy: 77 years (men), 81 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 New Zealand dollar ($NZ) = 100 cents
Main exports: Wool, food and dairy products, wood and paper products
GNI per capita: US $20,310 (World Bank, 2005)
Internet domain: .nz
International dialling code: +64

New Zealand is a modern parliamentary democracy based on the Westminster cabinet system. New Zealand’s Parliament is currently made up of 120 Members representing eight parties.

English is the main written and spoken language in New Zealand – with a number of different accents! Maori is also an officially recognised language and is spoken fluently by over 4% of the population.

Air New Zealand (IATA: NZ, ICAO: ANZ, and Callsign: New Zealand) ASX: AIZ NZX: AIR is a major scheduled passenger airline based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the New Zealand flag carrier, focusing on Australasia and the South Pacific, with services to Europe, North America and Asia, and a Star Alliance member. Its main base is Auckland International Airport.

Names for nation in foreign nations

Neuseeland = Germany

Nueva Zelanda = Spain

Nov Zelando = Esperanto

Nouvelle Zélande = France

Nieuw Zeeland = Holland

Nowa Zelandia = Poland

Nya Zeeland = Sweden

Yeni Zelanda = Turkey

birthplace of Indian Presidents

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