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Immigration Act 2009

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You can apply for a limited visa if you fit into one of these groups:

You are outside New Zealand and want to come here for a specific reason. This includes people who don’t need a visa to enter New Zealand.

You have just arrived in New Zealand and don’t need a visa to enter, but you want to stay for a specific reason.

You are already in New Zealand and either:

Have a current limited visa and need more time to finish what you came here to do, or
Have any other type of temporary visa, unless section 150 applies to you.

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Topics:

Immigration and citizenship > Visas

Immigration and citizenship > Border control

80: Interim visa, or

“Temporary visa to cover you while your new visa application is being processed”

82: Grant of limited visa rather than temporary visa applied for or held, or

“Limited visa may replace temporary visa to manage risk of overstaying”

The following persons may apply for a limited visa:
a person, including a person to whom a visa waiver applies, who is outside New Zealand and who wishes to come to New Zealand for an express purpose:
a person arriving in New Zealand to whom a visa waiver applies who wishes to stay in New Zealand for an express purpose:
a person onshore who is—
1. the holder of a current limited visa, if further time is required to achieve the express purpose for which that visa was granted; or
2. the holder of a temporary visa (other than a person to whom section 150 applies).

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