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Can you study in New Zealand and How ?

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To get a visa or permit to study in New Zealand you must meet our requirements for international students. The course you intend to undertake must also meet our requirements.

Offer of a place

To get a student visa, you need to have an offer of a place from a New Zealand education provider. The offer must include:

the name of the course and the minimum time required for completing it, and
proof that the course and course provider meet New Zealand’s requirements for international students, and
the amount of the fee for the complete course, or if the course is longer than one year, the annual fee, and
whether you have to pay course fees and whether the fees are domestic or foreign fees, and
whether you are studying full-time or part-time.

Your course must be approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).

Tertiary education providers

Tertiary education providers can offer courses to international students if they meet certain conditions:

Private training establishments (PTEs) can only offer international students approved courses that are longer than three months and registered with the NZQA. The PTE must be accredited by the NZQA to offer the course.
Institutions including universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and wananga can only offer approved courses that are longer than three months and registered with the NZQA. The institution must be accredited to offer the course. The enrolment of an international student must not prevent a New Zealand student or an NZAID student from gaining a place at the same institution.

Health and character

You have to meet our health and character requirements and prove to us that your intent is genuine.

Some people who have committed serious crimes will not be allowed into New Zealand at all. See section 7(1) of the Immigration Act.

Evidence of funds to support yourself

To gain a student visa or permit we want to see that you are able to meet your living costs during your stay.

Evidence may include:

enough money held in New Zealand by you, or on your behalf,
an undertaking by another person to cover your accommodation and living costs (we’ll want to see this before you leave for New Zealand),
an undertaking by a New Zealand sponsor to cover your accommodation and living costs, or
financial assistance available to you under aid programmes operated in New Zealand by a government agency.

Courses less than nine months

If the course you intend to study lasts less than nine months you’ll need to show us you have access to:

NZ$1000 for each month of your stay,
NZ$400 for each month, if your accommodation is already paid for (you will need to show us that you’ve paid), or
a letter from your education provider saying that your accommodation and other living costs are included in the package you’ve already paid for.

Courses more than nine months

If the course you intend to study lasts more than nine months you’ll need to show us you have access to:

NZ$10,000 per year to cover your costs during your stay in New Zealand, or
if you are a citizen of Samoa or Tonga, a written guarantee from a relative who is a New Zealand citizen or resident that they will cover your living costs.

Evidence of funds may be in the form of cash, travellers' cheques, bank drafts, or a recognised credit card with enough credit.

Proof that you plan to leave

So that we are sure that you will leave New Zealand when you have finished your course of study, we will need evidence of how you will leave New Zealand. For example, we may want to see travel tickets out of New Zealand to a country you are allowed to enter, or evidence of enough money held in New Zealand, additional to the funds you’ll need for your living expenses.

For full details, see U3.25 of our Operational Manual.

Passport

You must have a passport that is valid for at least three months past the end of your intended stay.

Permit requirements

Once you have a student permit, you must meet certain conditions during your stay:

You must attend the place of study noted in your permit. However, you can apply to us to change your course or institution.
If you have to be accompanied by a guardian, you must live with that person.
You must be able to show that you are passing your course.
You may only undertake work allowed by your student permit.
You must obey New Zealand’s laws.
You must only stay in New Zealand for the time allowed by your permit.

If you break any of these conditions we may revoke your permit.

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1/23/2008 11:36:23 AM

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All about visas and permits

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Having a visa and permit for study in New Zealand means you can study in New Zealand for a set time at a specified institution as a fulltime student.

Length of stay

You can only stay in New Zealand on a student permit for a limited time. In most cases we issue a one-year, renewable permit. If your course is longer than one year you need to reapply for each year of study.

If your course is based on the New Zealand academic year, and you’ve paid your fees for the year, we may grant you a student permit that expires on 31 March of the following year.

In some circumstances you can stay a little longer in New Zealand, but you need to apply for permission to change your permit. For example, you need to apply for a new student permit if you:

want to undertake further study so you can meet the requirements for membership to a professional association, or
are about to complete your course of study and you’d like to remain in New Zealand for your graduation.

If you're not undertaking further study, you'll need to apply for a visitor or work permit.

Accompanying parents or guardians

If you are enrolled in years 1 to 8 of a school, or you are a student aged 13 or under and enrolled in a private training establishment, your parent or legal guardian must apply for a special visitor’s visa known as a guardian visa. A guardian visa allows your parent or legal guardian to live with and care for you in New Zealand.

However, your parent or legal guardian won’t have to accompany you if you are:

a domestic student, or
enrolled in a school hostel approved by the Code Administrator at the Ministry of Education, or
in years 7 or 8 of a school, or aged 11 to 13 years and enrolled in any other provider which has approval from the Code Administrator at the Ministry of Education.

If you are aged 14 to 17 years (inclusive), or you are enrolling in school years 9 to 13, your parent or legal guardian can apply for a special visitor’s visa – a guardian visa – to live with and care for you in New Zealand, but it is not compulsory.

If you are granted a student permit on the condition that you live with a parent or legal guardian in New Zealand, your permit and your parent or legal guardian’s permit may be revoked if you do not meet this condition. You will then both be required to leave New Zealand.

Part-time study

Ordinarily, you need to be studying full time to be eligible for a student permit. However, we may allow you to study part time on a student permit if you are:

coming to New Zealand to study for at least three years and the course requires you to gain practical work experience as part of your study
or
coming to New Zealand to study for a maximum of nine months, your course meets New Zealand's foreign student policy requirements, you can show us that you have paid the course fees, and you meet our visitor requirements.
or
in the final semester of a course of study in New Zealand, resulting in a New Zealand qualification that would qualify for points under the Skilled Migrant Category.

Working while studying

You can work part time while studying full time, under certain circumstances:

to meet course requirements for practical work experience, or
during the Christmas and New Year holiday period if you are in a full-time course of study lasting 12 months or longer, and/or
for up to 20 hours in any given week during the academic year if you are in full-time study:
- at a private training establishment or tertiary institution and taking at least two academic years to complete, or
- culminating in a New Zealand qualification that would qualify for points under the Skilled Migrant Category, or
- at a secondary school full year course of study in years 12 or 13, provided you have written permission from your school and written consent from your parent, or
- in a full-time study course lasting at least six months, at a private training establishment or tertiary institution. Your visa or immigration officer has to be satisfied that the main purpose of your course of study is to develop English language skills, and, you have an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) overall band score of 5.0 or above (General or Academic Module), or
- at a tertiary level of at least one academic year duration as part of an approved tertiary student exchange scheme.

Please note: New Zealand law prohibits any person on a temporary permit, including a student permit, from providing commercial sexual services or operating or investing in a business which provides such services.

In order to work, you will need to have the conditions of your permit changed. Find out how to apply for a change in permit conditions.

If you want to work in New Zealand after you have completed your studies, you need to apply under the Study to Work Policy.

Our fees

When you apply for a student visa, you will need to pay a fee. Go to our fees finder to find out what you will need to pay.

People on visit or work permits who want to study

If you’re here on a visitor or work permit and you want to study full time for longer than three months, you need to apply for a student permit.

If you are here on a visitor or work permit and you want to study part time for longer than three months, you can apply for a Variation of Conditions to your current permit.

You cannot undertake that study before we grant you a student permit.

Partners and children of students

If your partner or children want to come to New Zealand with you, they will need to apply for a visitor visa, or if they will also be studying, their own student visa.

Medical insurance

You must have appropriate and current medical and travel insurance while you're studying in New Zealand (a requirement of the Ministry of Education's Code of Practice).

Student permit holders are generally not eligible for publicly funded health and disability services. People covered by New Zealand’s reciprocal health agreements with Australia and United Kingdom are entitled to publicly funded health care for immediately necessary medical treatment only.

Students sitting exams in New Zealand for a distance learning course

If you’ve been studying by distance learning with a New Zealand education provider, they may require you to come to New Zealand to undertake practical study, sit exams, or to meet other requirements.

If you need to stay longer than three months you’ll need a student visa. If your stay is for less than three months you can apply for a visitor visa. For either application we’ll need to see proof that:

you are a distance education student, and
you have an offer of a place at an educational institution, and
you have paid the course fees.

Who cannot get a student visa/permit

Most people can be considered for a visa or permit to study in New Zealand. However, to protect the interests of New Zealanders we do not issue visas to people who don't meet certain requirements, or who are involved in certain activities.

If an immigration of visa officer believes you have not made a genuine application for a visa or permit, or that you do not intend to meet the conditions of the visa or permit, we will not issue it to you.

You can be refused a visa or permit if:

you are not eligible for a visa or permit under section 7(1) of the Immigration Act 1987,
you are in New Zealand unlawfully when you apply,
you do not meet our health or character requirements, or
we believe you are likely to stay in New Zealand unlawfully or you would break the conditions of your visa or permit.

Limited purpose visas

If we are unsure whether you will meet the requirements of your visa, you may need to apply for a limited purpose visa.

NZAID students

We have a different policy for NZAID-supported students (or the partners or dependent children of NZAID-supported students). You will need written approval from NZAID if you want a visa or permit for New Zealand in the two-year period after the end of the NZAID student’s scholarship.

This policy does not apply to any work visas or permits that we give you to complete your course requirements or to any short-term visitor visas or permits.

If you are not sure whether these conditions apply to you, see our examples of eligibility, or, to see the wording of the policy, go to the Operations Manual.

Why we would revoke a student permit

If you fail to meet our conditions of studying in New Zealand we may revoke your student permit. We will do this if:

you do not attend your course
you work outside our restrictions
you stop attending the course for which you were granted the permit and enrol in one we have not approved. You may be able to change courses or providers once you are here but you must first contact us so that we can either change your permit conditions or consider your application for a new student permit
your NZAID funding stops, or
you are required to live with your parent or legal guardian and you do not live with your parent or legal guardian. Your parent or legal guardian’s permit may also be revoked in this case.

Once your permit is revoked you will no longer be lawfully in New Zealand and will have to leave.

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Student Visas and Permits

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Full details of visa and permit requirements, advice on rights to employment in New Zealand while studying, and reporting requirements are available through Immigration New Zealand.

When your application for admission is approved, the University of Canterbury will provide you information on the location of the appropriate office of Immigration New Zealand.

Visas

To apply for a student visa you will need to provide the following to Immigration New Zealand:

a completed and signed Application to Study in New Zealand
your offer of a place letter from the University of Canterbury
your tuition fee receipt
a passport-sized photograph
your completed “Financial Undertaking for a Student” form
the application fee (see the immigration website for the current application fee)
a passport valid beyond the period of study for which tuition has been paid.

In addition you need to provide:

a completed Immigration New Zealand medical and X-ray certificate if your course of study is likely to be longer than 12 months and
a police certificate from your country of citizenship (if you are over 17 years of age) if your course of study is likely to be longer than 24 months.

Acceptance by the University does not guarantee that the Immigration Service will issue you a student visa.

If possible, you should try to apply for your student visas by the end of September in the year before enrolment.

Permits

A visa allows you to travel to New Zealand, but once you arrive you will need a student permit to remain in the country. If you have a student visa, you will normally be issued with a permit at the border when you arrive in New Zealand.

A student permit is only issued for a full time course of studies.

If you do not have a current permit, this can be processed for you on campus. For information on what you will need to bring to have a student permit processed on campus please see Student Permits (PDF, 66K)

International students who are enrolled in full time programmes of 12 months or more can work up to 20 hours per week and will be able to apply to work full-time over the summer holidays. However, you must have a "Variation of Conditions" on your Student Visa to allow you to do this.

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Applying for a student visa

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The application process below is for people who want to apply for a student visa or permit. This may include people who want to travel to New Zealand to study, people who want to stay temporarily in New Zealand to study, and people already here on another permit who want to study in New Zealand full time.

The application steps

Complete the form

Print and complete the form Student Visa/Permit Application (INZ 1012) PDF. Also available is the Student Visa/Permit Guide (INZ 1013) PDF, which will assist you in applying. If you cannot print the form and guide, they are available from your nearest Immigration New Zealand branch.

Make sure you submit everything we require, including the fee

Along with your completed (and signed) application form you will also need to provide all the information listed at the back of the application form and the correct fee. If you do not submit the required information with your application we cannot accept it for processing.

Make sure you meet our health requirements

What you have to provide us with depends on how long you will be staying in New Zealand.

Studying in New Zealand for between six months and one year?

You may also need to provide a completed Temporary Entry X-ray Certificate (NZIS 1096) PDF to show you have been screened for tuberculosis (TB).

Studying in New Zealand for more than one year?

You will need to complete a medical examination and a medical and X-ray certificate.

Pregnant women and children under the age of 11 years are not required to submit X-ray certificates unless a special report is required.

For full details on our health requirements, see the Health Requirements Leaflet (NZIS 1121) PDF.

Make sure your meet our character requirements

If you are studying in New Zealand for more than two years you will also have to provide a police certificate, less than six months old, from your country of citizenship and from any country in which you have lived for five or more years since reaching 17 years of age.

Lodge your application

If you are applying from outside of New Zealand, your application must be made and approved before you are able to travel to New Zealand. Find out where to send your application.

If you are in New Zealand, please send your student application direct to:

Student Processing Unit

Immigration New Zealand

P O Box 1049

Palmerston North 4440

Student applications may also be placed in the branch student drop box (Auckland Branches only) and will be forwarded to the Student Processing Unit in Palmerston North.

If your education provider is certified with Students Online you can make your application at your nearest certified educational institute.

To help you make sure you have everything you need to apply for your visa or permit, use our checklist.

Already here?

If you need to renew your permit to complete your course of study, you will still need to go through the application process. However, if your education institution is on our Students Online list of certified educators, they will be able to process your student permit on campus. Find out which institutes are with Students Online.

Or you may want to change the conditions of your permit if you:

are on another permit type and wish to study part time
are on a student permit and want to change courses or course providers, or
want to work while studying.

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To obtain a student visa

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To obtain a student visa the student must provide the following to the nearest New Zealand immigration office:

An offer of place from the school the student is intending to study at.
A receipt of the tuition fees received made out by the school that has issued the offer of place.
A completed visa/permit form obtainable from the nearest New Zealand immigration office.
A passport that will be current at least for three months past the expected expiry of the student visa.
Application fee (check with your nearest NZ Immigration office)
A bank statement showing NZ$1000 per month or NZ$10000 per year to guarantee financial cover for living expenses or a financial undertaking form completed and signed by your sponsor and the sponsor’s bank showing NZ$7000
A return ticket to your home country or proof of enough funds to purchase a flight ticket.

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RE：Can you study in New Zealand and How ?

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hi this is yazir in nairobi i am from somalia so i wanna more study in NZ

10/25/2008 5:50:20 AM

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Fuerther to my search to your esteemed site i am willing to present my C.V to your institute willing to get entry visa only for three months just to improve my pronouncation in english. will you cooperate with me becuae i do not have the above mentioned fees.

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Please Contact Waikato Institute of Education. Contact email: info@wie.ac.nz

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Frequently Asked Questions: Student Visa Applications

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Frequently Asked Questions: Student Visa Applications

How long does it take to process my student visa?

Processing times will vary depending on the quality of the application and the documents provided to us. Student applications which meet the “Positive Profile” (see definition below) could be approved within 10 days on a case by case basis.

Some applications may take up to 45 days to process again on a case by case basis.

If your medical certificate requires referral to our Medical Assessor due to significant findings, your application may take up to two months to process. We recommend that you follow your panel doctor’s advice on what further tests to take and opt to do them before your lodge your application.

We also recommend that you apply for your student visa as least 3 months before your intended course date.

What is a “Positive Profile”?

Our experience shows that when students meet a particular profile, it assists us in assessing their applications considerably more quickly.

Applicants who meet most or all of the mentioned factors below give us a greater assurance that they are likely to be genuine students in New Zealand.

If an applicant does not meet the “positive profile” criteria, it does not necessarily mean that the application will not be approved. However, the application and may take longer to be decided.

Factors which determine what we consider to be a “Positive Profile” student.

Good Academic history (proven ability to achieve in a subject area similar to that in which they intend to study in New Zealand)
Clear study plan able to show future career development
Course is relevant to educational background and/or work experience
Continuous study pattern and work experience, no big gap from previous study or relatable work experience
Proven ability in English to be able to successfully attend a course of study in New Zealand (IELTS)
Verifiable evidence of funds to meet the educational and living expenses
Regular source and sufficient income of financial guarantors
Clear Health and Character requirements, if required

What evidence do I need to provide of my funds?

You need to show that you have sufficient funds to pay for your first year of study. Living expenses are calculate at NZ$1,000 per month or NZ$10,000 for year.

If you intend to study for longer than 12 months, you need to show that you have the ability to pay for your ongoing studies and living expenses for the duration of your studies. You will need to provide evidence to show that you or your family members have the income and/or assets to pay for your tuition fees and stay in New Zealand.

You also need to provide the evidence of the source of your funds and show that the funds are available for you to use.

Who can sponsor my studies in New Zealand?

Anyone can sponsor your studies in by completing the Financial Undertaking for a Student Form. You need to show that your sponsor genuinely intends to provide these funds to you and why.

Normally it is acceptable why close family members are willing to sponsor and provide funds. However, you may need to explain clearly why distant relatives or non-relatives would sponsor you and provide you with funds.

What is the English requirement for a student visa?

Your educational institution in New Zealand will require a level of English before offering you a place in a course. Immigration New Zealand does not have a specific English requirement for studying in New Zealand., it depends on the school’s requirements.

However we may ask you to provide evidence of your English ability to prove that you have met the schools requirements.

Can I work while I am in New Zealand?

The following categories of students can work 20 hours per week and over the holidays:

Studying full time for a course that is 2 years duration or will gain points under Skilled Migrant Category.
Full time secondary school students in Year 12 or 13 with permission from parents and the school.
Studying English for at least 6 months with an IELTS of 5.

Can I bring my family members with me to New Zealand? What sort of visas do they need to apply for?

Your family members will need to apply for visas separately from your. They can apply at the same time as you if they wish. However the outcome of their decision will also be dependent on the outcome of your application. If your application gets declined, then their application also gets declined. There is no refund for the application fees.

Students studying towards a qualification on the Long Term Skill Shortage List or for a post graduate qualification can apply for a work visa for their spouse. Children can apply for student visas as dependent of the spouse work visa holder and are consider as domestic students.

Other students can apply for visitor visas for their dependents. Evidence of funds to support the family is required.

Normally visas for your dependent family members are valid for the same period as the validity of your student visa.

Can I work after I have completed my studies in New Zealand?

If you have completed a qualification in New Zealand that leads to points under the Skilled Migrant Category, you can then apply for a 12 month open work visa/permit under the Graduate Job Search Visa/Permit.

This will allow you to look for a job and begin working in a skilled employment related to your course. Once you have found a job related to your qualification, you can then try to apply under the Skilled Migrant Policy for residence.

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