If you want to study a full-time course in New Zealand that’s longer than 3 months in total duration, you’ll need a Student Visa, unless you have a working holiday visa.
To get a visa to study in New Zealand, your background, qualifications, future goals, the course you intend to study, your financial capability must meet the requirements. If you are enrolling in a course for the first time, you need to have an offer of place from a New Zealand education provider.
Offer of a College / University:
You must identify that the following information is correctly mentioned on your Offer Letter:
- Name and contact details of the education provider
- The name of the course and the minimum time required for completing it.
- 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
- It should also mention if you have to pay course fees
- Whether the fees are domestic or foreign fees, and
- Whether you the study is full-time or part-time, and
- Confirmation all requirements under the Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students are met (including accommodation for under 18 year olds and course prerequisites).
- Your course must be approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
Confirmation of enrolment
If you are returning to the same New Zealand education provider to continue a course of study (e.g., the second year of a three-year Bachelor degree) you may provide a confirmation of enrolment from the education provider instead of an offer of a place, which includes:
- The name of the course, and
- The annual fee for the course, and
- Whether you are studying full-time or part-time.
Health and character
You have to meet our health and character requirements and prove to us that your intent is genuine.
Evidence of funds to support yourself
To gain a student visa it will be seen 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,
- A financial undertaking to cover your accommodation and living costs,
- Sponsorship by an acceptable 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 will need to show us you have access to NZ$1,250 for each month of your stay less any prepaid living expenses (you will need to show us that you’ve paid).
Courses more than nine months
- If the course you intend to study lasts more than nine monthsyou’ll need to show us you have access to:
- NZ$15,000 per year to cover your costs during your stay in New Zealand less any prepaid living expenses (you will need to show us that you’ve paid), 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, Visa officer 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.
Passport
You must have a passport that is valid for at least three months past the end of your intended stay.
Visa conditions
- Once you have a student visa, you must meet certain conditions during your stay.
- You must attend the place of study noted on your visa. However, you may apply to us to change your course and/or education provider.
- 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 and meeting your attendance requirements.
- You may only undertake work allowed by your student visa.
- You must obey New Zealand’s laws.
- You must only stay in New Zealand for the time allowed by your visa.
We strongly recommend that you arrange your personal meeting with our qualified counsellors to interpret and analyse your requirements. GEPSI Consultancy specializes on all types of Visa and has helped thousands of people from across the country.
For more accurate information and detailed discussion on your application, please consider contacting and meeting our experienced counsellors
GEPSI wishes you a very bright career and success ahead.