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Thread: What is 12-month and 14-day variation of travel conditions?

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    Default What is 12-month and 14-day variation of travel conditions?

    Hi there,

    We have recently received Residency and planning a move to New Zealand. I was reading INZ-1176 and got confused with travel variations.

    Can someone please help me with the following questions?

    - What is 12-month variation of travel conditions?
    - What is 14-day variation of travel conditions?

    Thank you in advance

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    These things are nothing you need to be bothered about YET, if ever.

    You have Residence. When you first enter NZ and present your passports at Immigration at the airport of arrival, they will be stamped and scanned, at which point your Residence counts as 'activated', and the two years' travel conditions which go with Residence will start to run.

    For two years, you will have permission to leave NZ and go back in as many times as you want to. At the end of two years, those conditions run out. If you left the country then, or were outside it, you would not have the right to re-enter, UNLESS you did, or had done, something to change your status. (Being inside NZ at that point is no problem - Residence gives you the right to live and work in NZ for ever, so staying there till you meet other conditions is allowed.)

    But changing the status is, for most people, http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migra...quirements.htm getting permanent residence (PR). Someone who has been on an activated Residence visa for at least two years, and has met the other conditions listed on that page (commitment to NZ), can apply to an INZ office and get a PR visa, at which point they will have the right to come and go freely from NZ for life.

    However, if, after their first two years' travel conditions run out, whatever they have done in that time means they HAVEN'T yet met the conditions for PR, but they want or need to travel outside NZ, then they have to look at the (lesser) requirements for the possibilities for further travel conditions that you mentioned.

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    Thank you JandM

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