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76: Decisions on applications for temporary entry class visa
or “How decisions are made on temporary visa applications, including exceptions”
You could also call this:

“Temporary entry visas: how long they last and what you can do with them”

A temporary entry class visa can be given to you until a certain date, until a specific event happens, or for a set amount of time.

If you have a temporary entry class visa, you can travel to New Zealand and ask for entry permission. You can ask for this before or after you travel to New Zealand. If you get entry permission, you can stay in New Zealand while your visa is valid, as long as you follow the visa’s rules.

You can only travel to New Zealand if your travel matches the rules of your visa about travel.

With a temporary entry class visa, you can work in New Zealand or in its exclusive economic zone only if your visa allows it and you follow the rules. You can study in New Zealand only if your visa allows it and you follow the rules.

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Part 3 Visas
Classes of visa: Temporary entry class visas: provisions applying to all types

77Currency and nature of temporary entry class visa

  1. A temporary entry class visa may be granted—

  2. until a specified date; or
    1. until a specified event on the occurrence of which the visa expires; or
      1. for a specified period of time.

        1. The holder of a temporary entry class visa—

        2. is entitled to—
          1. travel to New Zealand; and
            1. apply for entry permission (whether before or after travelling to New Zealand); and
            2. if granted entry permission, is entitled, in accordance with the conditions of the visa (if any), to stay in New Zealand during the currency of the visa.

              1. Subsection (2)(a) applies only if the visa holder's travel to New Zealand is consistent with the conditions of the visa relating to travel.

              2. The holder of a temporary entry class visa may—

              3. work in New Zealand, or in the exclusive economic zone of New Zealand, only if the conditions of the visa allow, and only consistently with those conditions:
                1. study in New Zealand, only if the conditions of the visa allow, and only consistently with those conditions.