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77: Currency and nature of temporary entry class visa
or “Temporary entry visas: how long they last and what you can do with them”
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“Automatic extension of temporary visas during epidemics”

If you have a temporary visa to stay in New Zealand, this section explains what happens to your visa during an epidemic. If your visa is valid when an epidemic management notice starts, and it would normally end before 14 days after the notice ends, your visa will be treated as if it’s still valid. This means you can stay in New Zealand until either your visa is cancelled or 3 months after the epidemic notice ends, whichever comes first.

This extension happens automatically. You don’t need to get a new stamp in your passport, have your visa changed, get a new document, or apply for a new visa. The government will just treat your existing visa as if it’s still valid.

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Next up: 78A: Extension of temporary entry class visa by special direction

or “Removed: Rules for extending temporary visas by special direction no longer apply”
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Part 3 Visas
Classes of visa: Temporary entry class visas: provisions applying to all types

78Deemed extension of temporary entry class visa expiring during epidemic

  1. This section applies to a temporary entry class visa held by a person in New Zealand if—

  2. it was current immediately before the commencement of an epidemic management notice; and
    1. but for this section, it would expire before the day that is 14 days after the day on which the notice expires.

      1. The visa must, for all purposes, be treated as if it continues to be a current visa allowing stay in New Zealand until the earlier of the following events:

      2. its cancellation:
        1. the expiration of 3 months after the day on which the epidemic management notice expires.

          1. Repealed

          2. Repealed

          3. Subsection (2) does not require—

          4. the endorsement or modification of the visa; or
            1. the issue of a document extending the visa; or
              1. the grant of a new visa.

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                Notes
                • Section 78(2A): repealed, on , by section 78(2B).
                • Section 78(2B): repealed, on , by section 78(2B).