How to immigrate to New Zealand?

On July 30 this year, the New Zealand Immigration Bureau issued a new policy on relative immigration-New Zealand spouses can apply for reunion even if they don't get a marriage certificate, but the premise is that male and female friends live together and provide relevant certificates, and the application for spouse reunion can be approved after half a year. At the same time, another new policy of parents' reunion has also been introduced. The application for parents' reunion will be approved in about 1 2 years, and the application for spouses' reunion in New Zealand will be approved in half a year. Two basic conditions need to be met: first, the guarantor must have New Zealand status; Second, the de facto marriage can apply for reunion for more than 12 months. It is worth mentioning that even if both parties do not get a marriage certificate, they can apply for New Zealand spouse reunion, provided that they are male and female friends and live together, and relevant certificates are needed.

Witnesses can investigate the relationship between the two by telephone or other means, but there is no requirement to go to the consulate for an interview. Spouse reunion is granted a two-year temporary residence visa, which requires the applicant to live in New Zealand for more than 180 days each year for two years. Applicants should meet the requirements of residence time and place of residence, and those who still maintain spouse relationship after 2 years can apply for permanent residence.

As the most important category of relatives immigrants in New Zealand at present, parents' reunion is mainly divided into one category (priority category) and two categories (general category).

The first category (priority category) requires applicants to meet any of the following conditions: the "long-term guaranteed minimum income" of the main applicant is NZ $27,203 per year (that is, NZ $39,890 per year in the case of joint application by spouses). Or if the principal applicant brings 500,000 New Zealand dollars to New Zealand, it must be legal income and legal transfer, and it must be transferred to New Zealand within 65,438+0 years from the time of immigration approval. Or the children of the principal applicant as the guarantor must be adult children with an annual income of at least NZ $65,000, or at least NZ $90,000 with the spouse of the guarantor.

"Long-term guaranteed minimum income" means that the income can be paid to the applicant continuously and permanently after the applicant obtains immigration status. If the Immigration Department considers the guarantor to be a "minor child", then the child is not qualified to sponsor his parents. Sponsored children must obtain permanent residency in New Zealand for three years before they are eligible to sponsor their parents.

The second category (general category) requires the guarantor (children) to have an annual income of at least NZ $33,675, and the applicant (parents) has no other adult children and the applicant is a resident of the same country.