Visitor visa - how to prove bona fida visitor

[Manni]

hello everyone,

I will be appyling for a 9 month visitor visa in some time, since I am not allowed to go on a Visa Waiver anymore, because my partnership Visa was declined.
However, I really hope to get this Visa because I want to visit my partner with our baby (which will be born in Europe).
But how can I prove or what evidence should I show that I will leave New Zealand before my Visa expires? I anyway would not stay illegally in New Zealand.
Thank you!

[JandM]

From what others have said, it is links in the home country that INZ look out for, with the idea that if the person has something waiting for them (e.g. property, a job, family responsibilities, a place on a course of study), they are more likely to go back.