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74: Currency and nature of resident visa
or “Resident visa allows entry, work, and study in New Zealand with certain conditions”
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“Former citizens can stay in NZ with resident visa-like status”

If you are in New Zealand and you give up your New Zealand citizenship or have it taken away from you, this law affects you. From the day you stop being a New Zealand citizen, you are treated as if you have a resident visa. This visa lets you stay in New Zealand. It might have some rules that you need to follow. These rules are set out in the residence instructions that were in place when you stopped being a citizen. The residence instructions are official guidelines about living in New Zealand.

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Part 3 Visas
Classes of visa: Residence class visas

75Former New Zealand citizens deemed to hold resident visa

  1. This section applies to a person in New Zealand who—

  2. renounces his or her New Zealand citizenship; or
    1. is deprived of his or her New Zealand citizenship.

      1. The person is deemed, from the date of renouncing, or being deprived of, his or her citizenship, to hold a resident visa—

      2. permitting the person to stay in New Zealand; and
        1. subject to any conditions specified in residence instructions certified for the purposes of this section at the time the person renounced or was deprived of his or her citizenship.