Requirements for a permanent resident visa
To be eligible for a permanent resident visa (PRV), the principal applicant in your original residence application must:
- hold a resident visa, or have held one in the last three months
- hold, or have held, that resident visa for at least two years continuously
- have met any conditions that your resident visa was subject to under section 49(1) of the Immigration Act
- meet relevant character requirements, and
- have met one of five commitment to New Zealand criteria set out below.
5. Established base in New Zealand
You have been in New Zealand as a resident for a total of at least 41 days in the 12-month period immediately before lodging your permanent resident visa application, and all members of your immediate family who were included in your residence application have resided in New Zealand for a total of at least 184 days in the two-year period immediately before lodging your permanent resident visa application. Also, either:
If you are applying on the basis of owning a family home, you must have purchased it within 12 months of your first day in New Zealand as a resident and still own that property either solely or jointly with members of your immediate family who were included in your residence application.
- you own and maintain a family home in New Zealand, or
- you have been genuinely employed full-time in New Zealand, in paid employment, for a total of at least nine months in the two-year period immediately before lodging your permanent resident visa application. Employment involving payment by commission and/or retainer is not acceptable.
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