[2022.05.31]Visado de Working Holiday de Chile a Nueva Zelanda

Todo lo que necesita saber sobre la visa de vacaciones de trabajo de Nueva Zelanda para Chile

All you need to know about New Zealand Working Holiday visa for Chile

Escribiremos este artículo en inglés, ya que nuestro equipo no tiene nadie que entienda realmente el español. Pero puede usar el traductor de Google para traducir todo el artículo, y le prometo que este será un artículo muy útil para ayudarlo a obtener la visa de vacaciones de trabajo de Nueva Zelanda

We will write this article in English, as our team has no one really understand Spanish. But you can use google translate to translate the whole article, and I promise that this will be a very useful article for you to help you get New Zealand working holiday visa

Contents

• What is New Zealand working holiday visa
• Requirements to apply for the visa
• The application process
• The slot is hard to get, how can I get it with higher chances
• After securing the slot, what should I do next?
• Other Q&A

What is New Zealand working holiday visa for Chile?

New Zealand working holiday visa allows applicants from Chile to apply, after being granted the visa, the visa holder can stay and work in New Zealand for at least 12 months, and if meet specific requirements during your stay in New Zealand, you can extend it for another 3 months, so in total, you can work in New Zealand, enjoy the nature here for 15 months.

Linkage about the visa: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/about-visa/chile-working-holiday-visa

Requirements and documents: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/criteria/chile-working-holiday-visa?nationality=nationality-CHL&country=residence-CHL

The requirements for the visa

The requirement in fact is pretty simple:

• You must hold Chile Passport
• You must be between 18-36 years old
• And you have not been granted this visa before.

If you meet the requirement above, then you can apply.

But remember to check the expiration period for your passport. To pass the online form validation and to submit the application, your passport must be valid at least until 15 more months, we recommend you hold a passport with more than two years expire time.

Here are 2 reasons:

• During the online application process, you will need to select your planned date to arrive in NZ. That is just a random question, you can just enter the day after the open day, which is 2022.05.31. So enter it as 2022.06.01. Because the valid period for you to pass the form validation is based on this value. Your passport must be valid until the planned date you enter + 15 months. So if you put 2022.06.01 here, your passport must be valid until 2023.09.01
• After you are granted the visa, you will need to enter NZ within a year, and when you enter NZ, your passport will need to have at least 15 months of validation. You can renew your passport later after you get the visa, and update the new passport information with the immigration officials, but that added one more step, so better to have a long valid period for your passport, so you will not need to waste your time later.

If you meet all the requirements, then you come to the most important and hardest step here, secure the slot, to be the 1/1000

So as you can see in the picture above, there are only 940 slots each year, if you want to get the visa, you will need to be 1/1000. And to be the 1/940, on the open day, you will need to be very very very quick to fill out the online form, submit the application online, and pay the visa fee successfully online, then you can secure the slot. Normally the slots will be filled in minutes, I think most of you already know that.

So the application process next is:

• Get the slot on 2022.05.31, which is the online application process
• do the healthcheck, which is the x-ray
• submit other required documents listed in the email the immigration officer sent.
• wait for the visa grant letter, or if the immigration officer needs more information from you, they will contact you.
• normally you will get your visa in two weeks

Online application system: https://onlineservices.immigration.govt.nz/

The online application process in detail, here is the article we wrote for Brazil, but you know, all the application processes are nearly the same, you just need to change the country, so the tips will also work for Argentina: https://www.whvstore.com/2019/07/14/2019-brazil-working-holiday-visa/

There is also an introduction to the free automatic tool we provide above, or you can check this link: https://www.whvstore.com/2022/04/02/how-to-increase-your-chance-to-secure-the-slot-for-working-holiday-visa-to-nearly-100/

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Notice that this year the visa fee for Chile is 280NZD, and you will need to pay it via visa/MasterCard, no matter whether it is a credit card or debit card, just make sure you can pay that much when you apply.

Actually last time Chile opens, it only takes 5 days before the immigration officer granted the visa, there is no documents required.

We have helped several applicants get the slot in 2019: https://www.whvstore.com/2019/10/10/chile-working-holiday-2019/