{"id":951,"date":"2020-05-22T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whvstore.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:07:07","slug":"covid-19-new-zealand-visa-related-policy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whvstore.com\/2020\/05\/22\/covid-19-new-zealand-visa-related-policy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"[COVID-19] New Zealand visa related policy update"},"content":{"rendered":"

As New Zealand has moved to STAGE 2 recently, a lot of furture working holiday visa applicants and holders will be quite concerned about the visa policy now.<\/p>\n

I am sure you guys have a lot of questions to ask, let’s try to help you figure them out one by one.<\/p>\n

When will New Zealand open the working holiday visa applications for my country?<\/h3>\n

As we mentioned before, they already suspend 19 countries working holiday visa application for 6 months, and there is no promise that they will open it 6 months later, which is around Oct. However, as New Zealand already controlled the virus, and when summer comes, they will need quite a lot workers, so we should be opmisitic that the visa application will be opened within the year 2020. So if you plan to apply it this year, still have a chance.<\/p>\n

What if I already in New Zealand with working holiday visa, but will not be able to fly back to my Country?<\/h3>\n

You are lucky, they just release this notice days ago:<\/p>\n

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Visa extensions<\/h2>\n

Holders of a work, student, visitor, limited or interim visa with an expiry date of 2 April to 9 July 2020 inclusive who were in New Zealand on 2 April 2020 will have their visas automatically extended to 25 September 2020. Confirmation of extensions will be emailed to all visa holders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which means your visa will be automatically extended if your visa originally expire between 2020.04.02-2020.07.09, you will recieve an email about that. Your latest visa expire date will be 2020.09.25.<\/p>\n

What if I already got the working holiday visa, but will not be able to enter NZ before it expired?<\/h3>\n

I am sorry, for now, there is no policy released about this area, We already sent emails to immigration office for further information.<\/p>\n

However, according to the information we have now, we can know this:<\/p>\n