Guide to obtaining a driver's license for studying in New Zealand How to seek medical treatment for international students who are sick?

To study in New Zealand, you need to know a lot about life. How to get a driver's license? How to see a doctor for free? Take a look at the guide to obtaining a driver's license for studying in New Zealand with me.

First, let's see how to get a driver's license.

1. Judging from the time required to get a driver's license.

It takes 1 to 3 months to get a driver's license in China. Living in New Zealand, with a domestic driver's license, you can drive on the road independently when you come to New Zealand, and you can change to an official New Zealand driver's license at any time. In New Zealand, it takes 65,438+02 months (over 25 years old) or 24 months (under 25 years old) to get a new Zealand official driver's license (if you take a driving training course in a certified driving school, the time for getting a driver's license over 25 years old can be shortened to 9 months, and under 25 years old can be shortened to 65,438+08 months).

Judging from the cost of obtaining a driver's license.

For those who learn to drive in China, the cost of obtaining a New Zealand driver's license = the cost of learning to drive in China +NZD 65438+NZD 054.80 to turn to a driver's license; This fee allows you to get two driver's licenses: China driver's license+New Zealand driver's license. For those who live in New Zealand and learn to drive, the cost of obtaining a New Zealand driver's license = NZD 282.30 examination fee+learning to drive.

The cost of learning to drive is different for everyone. If possible, you can learn to drive from your family/friends who have held a formal driver's license for more than two years, which may be very low (if you don't hit their car), but your friends will spend time with you and risk your car being damaged, so they may not want to; Another way is to hire a coach. Coaches charge NZ $30 to NZ $45 per hour, with unlimited study time until you are confident enough to pass the exam. In addition, the cost of insurance is different. If you hold a driver's license in China, you will get a full driver's license in New Zealand earlier, and your driving experience will be one or two years longer than that of those who study driving in New Zealand, so your annual insurance premium will be greatly reduced.

Judging from the difficulty of the exam.

It's very difficult to get a driver's license in China. You need to memorize a lot of impractical mechanical knowledge and so on. New Zealand driver's license theory test is relatively simple, multiple-choice and practical.

The road test is relatively simple in China, focusing on skills, while driving is not a difficult technology. After several hours of study, almost everyone can pass the exam. It is difficult to take a road test in New Zealand, mainly to test your eyesight and safety awareness, but it takes a long time to cultivate these awareness. Without a few months' practical driving experience, it is impossible to consciously exercise your consciousness in an hour's road test, so it is difficult to pass the test. Many skilled old drivers in China often fail the road test in New Zealand several times, because driving in China does not cultivate these awareness, and it takes time to cultivate safety awareness.

Generally speaking, for those new immigrants who need to find jobs by car immediately after coming to New Zealand, and those international students who want to make full use of their time abroad to travel and see more, it is best to come back from China with a driver's license. But for some people, learning to drive in New Zealand is better. For example, if you have family in New Zealand and have a full driver's license for more than two years, you can teach you to drive and don't mind damaging your car, then you'd better learn to drive in New Zealand. Every time you go out, just hang up the L sign and let your family sit in the co-pilot seat, and you can drive with the steering wheel. This basically does not affect your going out. It's just that you can't drive alone

Next, let's take a look at medical advice about getting sick.

1. Community Service Card:

Subsidize some expenses when seeing a doctor and dispensing medicines for middle-income families, low-income people and welfare recipients. The eligibility to apply for a community service card depends on the family's income, including wages, interest, dividends and family allowances, and the number of children in the family.

2. Advanced user health card:

It also subsidizes the cost of seeing a doctor and dispensing drugs, but this card is for any patient who has seen a doctor and dispensed drugs more than 12 times in the past 12 months. The cost of treatment and physical therapy caused by the accident is not included.

3. Prescription subsidy card:

Some families prescribe prescriptions 20 times or more every year (12 months from February every year 1), excluding the formula for children under six years old. This card can reduce the cost of medicine a little more.

If anyone has a serious long-term case or disability, he can report to the work department &; ? In order to get more help, the bureau has a series of options, including direct medical and disability subsidies (adults and children have different subsidies) or one-time special emergency medical expenses or prepaid benefits.

To apply for the above medical benefits, you must be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident. If you are a refugee or have applied for refugee status, you can apply for another kind of medical care subsidy.

Voluntary organizations, institutions for the disabled and other social service organizations also provide free or assistance services to caregivers of the disabled at home, arrange personnel or places to take care of the disabled, give tired caregivers a short rest time, and provide help in housework and family transformation to make them suitable for living.

Finally, let's look at the mobile skills.

Living in New Zealand, it is inevitable to move, but for New Zealand students, not knowing the life in New Zealand makes it difficult to move.

Precautions for moving First of all, if you move, you must choose a moving company that suits you, that is, we usually say shop around. How to shop around? We can do some research from word of mouth, price, word of mouth, service quality, customer feedback, compensation and so on. You may think this is troublesome, but I can tell you that once something happens, it will bring you more unnecessary trouble. And it is best to have a detailed quotation, so that you have a clearer grasp of your own tariffs.

When choosing an international moving company, we should pay attention to choosing a moving company with brand, credibility and strength, and don't make a blind reservation just by a phone call or a piece of promotional paper. Consumers should try to avoid telephone booking, and it is best to negotiate with the nearest moving company. Besides these, you should also know something about customs, for example, you should know about customs tariff policy. For example, when moving to New Zealand, some used vacuum cleaners and bicycles must be cleaned, and it is best not to bring used agricultural production supplies. Such as watering pipes, weeding tools, saddle for riding, golf clubs, etc. Writing the list of entourage on the customs clearance form can also avoid some troubles.

The so-called on-site service provided by some companies will be counted separately. For example, the domestic part will be paid to the moving company, the foreign part will be paid to the port, and some will be paid to the customs and freight forwarding companies. To put it bluntly, the services provided by these companies are door-to-door services, and there will definitely be hidden expenses in foreign countries, so we must find a company that can pay the expenses in one lump sum.

When moving, first of all, we should make full preparations, put all the scattered things into boxes or parcels, and break them into parts. Secondly, you can ask the moving company to send more people. Finally, arrange the time and schedule reasonably, and try to match your schedule. It's best to arrange for the ship to arrive in Hong Kong one week after you land, so that you have enough time to prepare for customs clearance.