Applying for your visa online
You can apply for most visas online. You can upload supporting documents, photographs and also pay for your application online.
The application process
- Visa process overview
- Applying for your visa online
- Online visa application process
- How to create a RealMe account
- Providing your passport for online applications
- Sharing your online application
- Including family in your online application
- Submitting group applications
- Working holiday visas
- File formats for uploading documents and photographs
- Travelling from the Pacific
- Immigration advice for your visa application
- Applying on behalf of someone else
- Application forms, guides and checklists
- Fees, decision times and where to apply
- Checking your visa application status
- How to get a temporary visa decision reviewed
- About eVisas
- Skilled Migrant Category Resident Visa application guide
- Pacific Access Category Resident Visa ballot results
- Samoan Quota Resident Visa ballot results
An overview of the online visa application process including how to choose a visa, the photos and file formats you need to upload, and how to pay online.
How to create a RealMe account
You need a RealMe account to apply for a visitor visa online. RealMe is designed to protect your privacy and is a service used by many New Zealand businesses and government departments.
Providing your passport for online applications
How to provide a digital copy of your passport or send us your passport so we can verify your identity.
Sharing your online application
You can share online visa applications with other people you work with to assist your clients’ applications.
Visitor visa applications can include partners and dependent children. Residence applications can include dependent children for partners of New Zealanders.
Submitting group applications
A group of applications can be made online and paid for all at once. The fees and taxes for each individual application will be shown on your invoice.
Working holiday visas
You can use Online Services to apply for a working holiday visa.
File formats for uploading documents and photographs
All documents uploaded must be PDFs and all images must be JPEG or JPG.
Travelling from the Pacific
Information about travelling to New Zealand from, or through, a Pacific country.
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