INZ Branches - What visa types are processed by each branch?
The following is current as of March 2025:
Office
Categories
Visitor Visa (VV) General, VV Business, VV medical treatment, VV patient
escort. (AMS & ADEPT)
VV parent and grandparent
Limited Visas
Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE)
Transit
Student Visa (child of a New Zealander & Scholarship holder)
Partner/child of a worker
Partner/child of New Zealander (pacific) temp
Apia
Partner/child of New Zealander (pacific) Resident Visa (RV) / Permanent
Resident Visa (PRV)
Samoa Quota RV
Pacific Access Category (PAC) RV
Transfer of visa label
NZ Endorsement
Note: The transit visas the pacific branch processes are primarily pacific based
applicants.
Student and trainee
Partners and Dependents of AEWV + Partners and Dependents of any of our
substantive app types
Crew of Foreign Fishing Vessels and the AIPs
Religious Workers
Work to Residence
Specific Purpose, includes Seasonal and Entertainers
Various categories
Christchurch
Work Exchange Schemes (
1
Variation of Conditions (VOC)/Job Change
Variation to travel conditions (VOTCs)
Parent Residence
Residence from Work
Christchurch Response
Student visa
Removal of s49 Conditions (Religious Worker and Parent Residence)
Approved Arts and Music Festivals
Approved Promoters
Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) - Employer Accreditation
AEWV - Job Check
Christchurch
AEWV - Work visa
2
Visitor visa
Note: Manukau is lead office for AEWV - work visa any general AEWV - work
visa related questions should be referred there.
Office
Categories
Partnership (residence and temp, onshore and offshore, incl. Culturally
Arranged Marriage)
Victims of Domestic violence (temp and residence)
Dependent child of NZ residents/citizens (temp and residence)
Special Ukraine visa (temp)
Hamilton
Special Ukraine visa (residence)
Note: Applications for partners and dependents of workers (AEWV, ESWV) are
also processed at Christchurch1. Applications lodged at the same time as the
AEWV will generally be processed in Christchurch Applications lodged after
the AEWV is decided will generally come to Hamilton.
Foreign Mission and Military
Visitor visas
Henderson
Approved Destination Status (ADS) visitor visas
Free & Independent (FIT) visitor visas
Transit (ADEPT)
S6 (2021) Residence
Section 61
AEWV - work visa
Manukau 1
Permanent Resident Visas/VOTC/SSRV as of late September 2023
Confirmation of residence visas
Visitor visa (one team currently processing as a backup site)
Note: Manukau are the only branch that process the applications for balance
of AEWV.
Skilled Migrant Category (old and new)
Manukau 2
Skilled Residence (Green Lists –Straight to Residence and Work to Residence)
Skilled Residence Work to Residence – Care Workforce and Transport Sector
Job checks
Onshore lodgement
Label/eVisa transfers
Endorsements
Working Holiday Visas
Offshore lodgement
NaDO/NDO
VV (General, Business & Parent and Grand-Parent)
ADEPT SO Validation Activities
SMC EOI Refunds
Parent EOI, NZeTA (charge backs, refunds and updates) and Refunds
APEC
VVG, VVB, VV medical treatment. (All VV types)
PAC registration
Nuku'alofa
PAC & SQ
RSE
Transit
Office
Categories
Partner/child of NZER (pacific) temp and RV PRV SSRV
Partner/child of work/student visa holder (pacific) temp
MFAT and local government Scholarship Student visas.
Note: The transit visas the pacific branch processes are primarily pacific based
applicants.
Palmerston
All Student Visas (and associated partners & dependents)
North
Post-study (and associated partners & dependents)
Investor 1 and 2
Entrepreneur Work visa
Entrepreneur Residence
Employees of Relocating Businesses
Removal of s49 conditions
GIVs: this category has now closed, and the branch is only processing on hand
applications. We still assess GIV permanent resident visa applications
Parent Retirement
Active Investor Plus
Refugee and Protection
Work visa Asylum visas and dependents
Student Visa
Limited Visa
Porirua
VOCs
Human Trafficking Temporary Work, Visitor and Residence
Partnership Residence
Migrant Exploitation Protection work visa
ADEPT RIG assessments
Recognised Seasonal Employer ATR
Supplementary Seasonal Employment Work visa
Supplementary Seasonal Employment AIP
Recognised Seasonal Employer Status
Limited Visa
Student visas (High-Risk offshore India and onshore India)
VVG/VVB (AMS/ADEPT) other category includes, medical treatment, short
term live entertainment acts, sports people, crew members joining vessels or
aircraft, visitors arriving by yacht or private aircraft.
Limited Visas
VV Parent and Grandparent
Suva
Work/Visitor (Partnership)
RSE
Student dependants
Transit
Student (Scholarship Holder)
Work -Partner of a Worker (AEWV)
Office
Categories
Work - Partner of a NZAID student
Visitor - partner/dependent child of a work or student visa holder
Visitor - Child of a NZ citizen
Residence PAC
Residence Samoa Quota
Residence (Partnership/Dependent Child)
Note: The transit visas the pacific branch processes are primarily pacific based
applicants.
