Since this is the first post on A Year in New Zealand I thought I’d post about the preparation and tell you a little about what this is all about.
My girlfriend and I have applied for a Working Holiday Visa for New Zealand. This visa enables us to work and live in NZ for up to a year.
Why are we doing this? Well because last year we visited for 6 weeks house sitting for some friends, we loved it so much we decided we want to spend more time there, so we are!
The Preparation
Well before you start you have to apply for a visa. You can do this online in most cases. And will be charged a small fee when you get it (except for those in the USA where it’s free, for the UK it’s around £45).
To do this you need your passport, second form of ID i.e drivers licence, details of your job, address, phone number, email address, criminal record, and possibly health record, it’s all pretty self explanatory when you go through the application process.
It took 4 days for the visas to be approved which was mightily fast if you ask me!
Once the visa has been approved you have up to one year to travel to NZ once you arrive you are issued with a work permit which lasts one year from the date you arrive. This means you can apply whenever you want (as long as it’s within a year of when you want to travel) and you still get to stay a year regardless of when you arrive inside the year bracket.
That’s all for now folks, more coming soon!
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