add another person to my visa

[scottandnikki]

Hi
Im hoping someone might be able to help i might need to add my 16year old niece to my visa I've currently got a essential skills visa with my wife and my two children can i add my niece to this or would she need a different visa i was thinking she could possibly get a student visa but i wanted to ask first
Many thanks scott

[JandM]

Is your niece normally part of your household?

[scottandnikki]

Hi jandm
She has now become part of our family i wont go into to much detail but myself and my wife are her guardians

[Karen Phillips]

If you legally adopt her, you could get her a domestic student visa as a dependent child. For now, if she is a UK citizen and you have the legal paperwork to prove you have the right to remove her from the UK, she could travel to NZ on an international student visa and attend school. If you talk to the Head Teacher of the school where your own children attend or the most appropriate one in the neighbourhood, they would be able to tell you their fees. They aren't usually as bad as they would be in the UK.

[scottandnikki]

Thankyou both very much for your replies it has helped a lot
Scott