New Zealand

Visa Information

Permanent Entry Visas   

Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills and parent subclasses) for New Zealand, Cook Islands, Niue and Pitcairn Island are lodged, processed and decided in Auckland.

General skilled migration applications are lodged and processed at the Adelaide Skilled Processing Centre.

Business Skills applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Business Skills Processing Centre.

Contributory parent and parent migration applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Offshore Parents Centre.

Temporary Entry Visas

As for Permanent Entry Visas.

416 Special Program applications are lodged and processed at the Hobart Special Program Processing Centre

420 Entertainment sponsorship and visa applications are lodged and processed at the Sydney Entertainment Processing Centre

From 2 April 2005, Sponsored Family Visitor visa (subclass 679) applications must be lodged by the sponsor at a State or Territory office within Australia.
See: Contact details in Australia

If you are sponsored by an Australian employer, you must lodge your visa application at the same office in Australia where your employer lodged papers to support your application. Please ask your employer which office they lodged these papers at. For the office address, see:

Special Procedures

New Zealand citizens travelling on New Zealand passports do not need a visa to enter Australian unless there are health or character concerns.