Additional requirements for
partners who are New Zealand
citizens or residents
If your partner is a New Zealand citizen or
resident and you wish to apply for a work visa,
your partner must be eligible to support a future
Partnership Category residence application.
To be eligible to support an application for
a residence class visa under the Partnership
Category, the New Zealand partner must:
•
meet the character requirement for partners
supporting applications made under the
Partnership Category, and
•
have not previously supported more than
one other successful principal applicant
under the Partnership Category, and
•
have not supported any other successful
principal applicant under Partnership Category
in the five years immediately preceding the
current application, and
•
not have included any other successful
secondary applicant partner in a residence class
visa application in the five years immediately
preceding the current application, and
•
not, in the seven years before the application,
have been the perpetrator of an incident of
domestic violence which has resulted in the
grant of a resident visa to a person under the
category for victims of domestic violence.
If the New Zealand partner was previously a
successful principal applicant under Partnership
Category then they will be considered to be
eligible only if:
•
at least five years have elapsed since they
were granted residence under the Partnership
Category at the time the current application
is made, and
•
they have not supported any other
successful principal applicant under the
Partnership Category.
If the New Zealand partner was granted
residence as a secondary applicant partner
in a residence class visa application then they
will be considered to be eligible only if:
•
at least five years have elapsed since they
were granted residence as a secondary
applicant partner, and
•
they have not supported any other
successful principal applicant under
the Partnership Category.