Self-Assessment Guide For Residence In New Zealand Page 18
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20Minimum English
• you or your partner have an acceptable offer
of employment* in New Zealand
language requirement
• you meet a minimum level of English
For you to meet the minimum level of English
language ability
ability, an immigration officer must be satisfied
• you meet a minimum level of income if you
that you are able to read English, understand
have dependent children, and
and respond to questions in English, and
• you meet health and character requirements.
maintain an English language conversation
about yourself, your family or your background.
Any partner and/or dependent children included
in your application must also meet health and
Unfilled places
character requirements.
If the annual quota of places under the PAC
You must be in Samoa or lawfully in New Zealand
is not filled by applicants drawn from the ballot,
when you apply for residence under the Samoan
we will call for residence applications from
Quota instructions.
any citizens of the PAC countries who are
You must also meet the acceptable offers of
lawfully in New Zealand with a job offer.
employment, minimum income and minimum
Applicants must also meet all other residence
English language requirements set out in the
criteria, as listed above.
Pacific Access Category section.
For more information see our Registration Form
for Pacific Access Category (INZ 1092).
Unfilled places
If the annual quota of places under the Samoan
Samoan Quota Scheme
Quota Scheme is not filled by applicants drawn
from the ballot, we will call for residence
The Samoan Quota Scheme allows a quota of
applications from any citizens of Samoa who
Samoan citizens to be granted residence in
are lawfully in New Zealand with a job offer.
New Zealand each year.
Applicants must also meet all other residence
criteria, as listed above.
The Samoan Quota Scheme is run by ballot.
You can only apply for residence under these
For more information see our Samoan Quota
instructions if you lodged a registration
Scheme Registration Form (INZ 1086).
during the annual registration period and your
registration was drawn from the ballot. (The only
Victims of domestic violence
exception to this is if the annual quota of places
is not filled by applicants drawn from the ballot.
We can help you if you have been living in a
(See ‘Unfilled places’ below).
relationship with a New Zealand citizen or
You may qualify for residence under the Samoan
resident that has ended because that person
Quota Scheme if:
was violent towards you and you are unable to
go back to your home country. Please contact
• you are a citizen of Samoa
a New Zealand office of INZ for further details.
• you were born in Samoa or born overseas
to a Samoan citizen who was born in Samoa
Pitcairn Islanders
• your registration is drawn from the ballot
• you lodge your application for residence under
New Zealand recognises that there are few
the Samoan Quota Scheme within eight months
employment opportunities on Pitcairn Island.
of us writing to you advising that your
If you are a Pitcairn Islander, you can apply for
registration has been drawn from the ballot
residence in New Zealand if you have a firm offer
(or within the time frame specified by INZ)
of employment in New Zealand and are of good
• you were aged between 18 and 45 years
health and character.
inclusive at the registration closing date
*
If the applicant has dependent children the offer
of employment must also meet the minimum
income requirement (if the principal applicant
has a partner who has a job offer, this may also
be taken into account). The current minimum
income threshold is available on our website
or by enquiring at
our nearest office.
18 – Self-Assessment Guide for Residence in New Zealand – April 2016
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