Know this information in you want immigration to New Zealand with Partnership family visa .
If your partner is already in New Zealand, or you and your partner are applying for a visa to come to New Zealand together, you may be eligible for a visa based on your partnership.
Immigration New Zealand defines partnership , who live together in a genuine and stable relationship in any of the following:
A legal marriage
A civil union
A factors relationship.
So when you apply for a visa based on your partnership with a New Zealand visa holder or New Zealand citizen, we call that person your supporting partner.
Requirements for you and your supporting partner must :
- be aged 18 or over, or if they're aged 16 or 17 years, have the consent of their parents or guardians
- have met each other before applying for a visa based on your partnership
- not be close relatives.
Partnership requirements
You must be able to show us that you're living together in a genuine and stable relationship before we can grant you a visa based on your partnership.
Living together means sharing the same home as your partner, which doesn’t include:
- Spending time in each other’s homes while you each maintain your own home
- Sharing accommodation while on holiday
- Flatmate arrangements.
Assessing partnership
When we assess if you meet our partnership requirements, we'll look at things like:
How long you’ve been together
How long you've been living together as a couple
Your living arrangements
Whether you support each other financially
How you share financial responsibilities
How committed you are to a life together
Whether you own property together and/or share your property
Any children you have together, including your arrangements for their care
Whether you share common household tasks
Whether other people recognize your relationship.
Evidence of partnership to get visa
You and your partner must provide enough evidence to show that you're living together in a genuine and stable relationship.
Your evidence will be more credible if it's from official sources. For example, a joint tenancy agreement showing the date that you and your partner started renting a property together is better than your friend writing a letter to tell the specials places how long you've been living together.
You don’t have to provide all of the documents listed as examples, but the more evidence you provide, the easier to the government of immigration to make a decision about your application.
Examples of documents that you need to show
Evidence to show us you're in a genuine and stable relationship can include:
Marriage or civil union certificates
Birth certificates for any children you share
Cards, letters, emails and social media conversations
photos together
Evidence that others recognize your relationship
Evidence you make decisions and plans together
Evidence you parent together
Evidence you spend leisure time together
A joint rental agreement or home loan
Mail addressed to you together at the same place and time
Joint bank accounts
Evidence you own assets together
Joint credit cards or hire purchase agreements
Joint utilities accounts, like power or phone bills.
Know that any evidence you provide about your demand for get visa.