Visitor visa

[japolina]

Hi,

Good day! My mom has cancer and is undergoing chemo treatment now. The treatment will be finish this june. I am planning to invite my parents here for a 3-month vacation. I want her to stay with me while she is recovering from all the treatment. I want my mom to be out from stress and just be free from everything. What would be the requirements and the things that i need to do? I want to cover all the cost and show money. We are renting a house with an extra room for them. By the way, I am just holding a working visa. Your help is much appreciated

[JandM]

What nationality is your mother?

[japolina]

she is a Filipino Jand M.

[JandM]

I'm sorry to have to say what you will not want to here, but it's only fair to warn you.

There COULD be problems with getting your mother a visa in these circumstances. She is not from a visa-waiver country, so she will have to make an actual application, and there is a requirement in the criteria (found by clicking the Criteria button near the bottom of the page here https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-...a/visitor-visa) for "Good health". When you look at the form https://www.immigration.govt.nz/docu...es/inz1017.pdf, there is this question.

Do you or any person included in this application have any medical condition that requires, or may require,
one of the following during your stay in New Zealand?
• Renal dialysis
Yes
No
• Hospital care
Yes
No
• Residential care
Yes
No

Anyone ticking a 'yes' is required to give further details.

IF anything went wrong with your mother while she was staying with you, which is not impossible in the immediate aftermath of cancer treatment, obviously you would have to get her medical attention, and she would in that case almost certainly be taken to hospital. So she ought to tick 'yes', and that would almost certainly mean that INZ would require a medical, which in turn would probably mean refusal. http://onlineservices.immigration.go...nual/44856.htm quotes exactly this situation - that there is a chance that someone might need care - and says it doesn't make any difference if the person is offering to pay for their own if necessary.

This is strictly enforced. See this old thread https://www.enz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=51352, where someone at a much greater distance from their treatment than your mother was refused at first, when INZ saw the medical, and then (which is a big concession that I haven't seen them make before) allowed to make a short trip, and told that any others in the future will also have to be short, and be applied for specially WITH an oncologist's report every time, even though that person would normally be a visa-waiver visitor. If s/he hadn't argued the case, s/he would have been completely refused.

[japolina]

Youve been very helpful thank you bigtime!