Managing your visa and passport

Learn how to renew or transfer visas, report missing passports, get a citizen endorsement, and what happens if your visa or passport expire.

Already have a visa

Transferring your visa to a new passport

If you have renewed your passport, you need to transfer your valid visa into your new passport before you use it to travel. This applies for both physical visa labels and eVisas.

Application for transfer or confirmation of a visa

Online application form for the transfer or confirmation of a visa.

If your passport is lost or stolen

What to do if your passport is lost, your visa expires before your passport is replaced, or you find your passport after reporting it lost.

If you cannot get a passport

What to do if your passport is not recognised by Immigration New Zealand, or if you are unable to get a passport.

If you do not leave New Zealand before your visa expires

You are not allowed to stay after your visa expires. Find out what to do if you need to stay past your visa expiry.

Deportation and how you can appeal

A person who remains in New Zealand after their visa expires becomes unlawfully in New Zealand and is therefore liable for deportation. Liability for deportation can also arise in other situations. In many cases, a person can appeal against their liability, within certain timeframes.

Application for a transfer of a visa for Skilled Migrant Category (SMC) Interim Visa holders

Apply to transfer your SMC Interim Visa to your new passport.

New Zealand citizens travelling on a foreign passport

If you want to travel to New Zealand as a citizen, you must have a New Zealand passport or a foreign passport with an endorsement of your New Zealand citizenship.

Search for a visa by name

Get all the details for a visa, NZeTA, or how to update your passport sticker.

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