With this visa you can join your New Zealand citizen or resident partner and enjoy New Zealand’s scenery, culture, and friendly people. You are not permitted to work on this visa. To be eligible for this visa, you must be in a genuine and stable partnership with a New Zealand citizen or resident. You must also be living together, or have lived together, with your partner.
Your partner is a New Zealand citizen or resident.
You are in a genuine and stable relationship with your partner.
You are living with your partner or have previously lived together.
Your partner supports your visa application and you both intend to live together in New Zealand.
Your partner has not acted as a successful partner in more than one residence application (this includes being the applicant in a partnership residence application).
Your partner has not acted as a successful partner in a residence application in the last 5 years.
Your partner has not committed an act of family violence resulting in the grant of residence to the victim.
Your partner is not liable for deportation.