"You do not currently meet the presence requirements for citizenship by grant. Check again in December 2021."

[farfaraway]

Hi all,

The INZ calculator https://dia.services.govt.nz/presence-calculator/ says:

"You do not currently meet the presence requirements for New Zealand citizenship by grant.
Check again in December 2021."

Any clue on what does this mean? Could not find a thread specific to it.

Does "Check again in December 2021" mean, the applicant will be eligible to apply? or would have to wait beyond December?

Do someone have an Excel sheet that can do this calculation? or can point to the right post to do own calculation by writing down the travel dates?

In a post, it says INZ calculates date from the time RV was granted, elsewhere it says at the time of activating RV. Not sure which one to follow.

Any replies are appreciated.

Kind regards.

[MajorLiggs]

If the calculator returns a negative result (as in you have not met the requirements yet), it always says try next month. It doesn't mean anything specific to you. For example, October 9th mine said try in November yet it gave me the green light on October 10th. Just ignore it.

You can work out yourself when you can apply. It's important to count backwards from the day you apply (not forwards from the day you became a resident). So counting backwards, you need to have been present within NZ as a resident for 240 days or more in each of the past 5 years, and been within NZ for a total for 1,350 days or more. This typically means people can apply before they've been resident for 5 years. There's a lot of explanations about it in the "Latest Citizenship Timeline" thread.