Sponsorship Form For Temporary Entry - New Zeland Immigration printable pdf download

OFFICE USE ONLY

Client no.:

Date received:

Application no.:

INZ 1025

November 2016

Sponsorship Form for

Temporary Entry

Supporting information for a visitor visa, work visa or student visa application

Who can be a sponsor?

If you are sponsoring a work or resident visa under

the Religious Worker Temporary Entry or Residence

instructions, you must complete the form Sponsorship

To be a sponsor you must be:

form for Religious Workers (INZ 1190).

• a New Zealand citizen or the holder of a New Zealand

residence class visa (if you are the holder of a resident

Sponsor’s responsibilities

visa that is subject to conditions under section 49(1) of

the Immigration Act 2009, you are not eligible to be a

When you agree to be a sponsor, you undertake and

sponsor), or

agree to:

• an organisation, including New Zealand registered

companies, incorporated societies, and charitable

• make sure the sponsored person has financial support

trusts, or

for the duration of their stay (maintenance costs like

• a government agency, including government

food, clothing and health care – things necessary for

departments and crown entities.

their health and welfare while in New Zealand), and

• make sure the sponsored person has suitable

Supporting your partner

accommodation for the duration of their stay

(whether providing it directly or paying for it), and

If you want to support your partner (whether married,

in a civil union or a de facto partnership) to come to

• guarantee to provide the cost of return airfare for

the sponsored person, if they do not have the means

New Zealand, you must complete the Form for Partners

Supporting Partnership-Based Temporary Entry

to pay themselves (or refuse to pay for it), and

Applications (INZ 1146). Depending on your partner’s

• guarantee to provide the costs associated with the

circumstances, you may also be required to financially

sponsored person’s deportation if they are deported

sponsor them. The immigration officer will let you know

(costs like locating, detaining and maintaining the

if this is the case.

person, as well as travel costs), and

• (optional undertaking) guarantee to provide the cost

Requirements for specific sponsors

of maternity health services in New Zealand if the

sponsored person is pregnant and intending to give

Organisations and government agencies can sponsor

birth in New Zealand.

someone applying for:

• a visitor visa, or

When you agree to be a sponsor, you are responsible

for the sponsored person from the day they arrive

• a student visa, or

in New Zealand until the day they get a new visa with

• a work to residence visa under Talent (Arts, Culture

a different sponsor or no sponsor, or the day they

and Sports), or

leave, whether they are on a valid visa or in New Zealand

• a work visa under Foreign Crew of Fishing Vessels.

unlawfully. You cannot withdraw your sponsorship. If you

sponsor a multiple entry visa, you are responsible every

If you are a New Zealand citizen or resident sponsoring a

time they are in New Zealand with that sponsored visa.

student, you must be a relative or a friend of the student.

If you are sponsoring a work to residence visa, you must

complete the form Talent (Arts, Culture and Sports)

Sponsorship Form (INZ 1091).

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Sponsorship Form For Temporary Entry - New Zeland Immigration

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