Visa requirements for NZ PPL
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Visa requirements for NZ PPL
Hi, I'm travelling to NZ this November to do my PPL and have a handful of schools that have been recommended to me. I'd like to visit the schools before committing myself to one, but the requirements for a student visa state that you must have an invite to train at a school before you can get the visa.
I'm thinking it might be best for me to get a free 6 month travel visa then apply for a student visa once i've found the right school.
Does anyone have any advice about this or know about the logistics of applying for a student visa once in NZ? I plan to be there for about 8-9 months.
I'm thinking it might be best for me to get a free 6 month travel visa then apply for a student visa once i've found the right school.
Does anyone have any advice about this or know about the logistics of applying for a student visa once in NZ? I plan to be there for about 8-9 months.
If you are only coming to do your PPL I don't think you need a student visa. You can just come as visitor, in fact if you are a UK national I don't think you would need any visa. I know we don't need a visa to go to the UK and as far as I know it's the same for a UK national coming here.
I think the student visa thing is for those people who need to have a visa and are coming here for an extended time to do their PPL, CPL, MEIR etc. The student visa is a better option for them than a visitors visa, e.g. I think the student visa allows the student to have some employment while they are studying.
Check out the requirements on the NZ Immigration website.
I think the student visa thing is for those people who need to have a visa and are coming here for an extended time to do their PPL, CPL, MEIR etc. The student visa is a better option for them than a visitors visa, e.g. I think the student visa allows the student to have some employment while they are studying.
Check out the requirements on the NZ Immigration website.
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Oh ok, that's good news. If my return ticket is more than 6 months from my arrival date will I still be ok getting through customs?
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Id say no, think you will probably need to apply for a student visa and that means going to a school that would accept and sort this out I think, can you not do it in 6 months? Lot less hassle!
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Stuck in customs
Hi Matthew
I travelled to New Zealand in 2001 without an outward passage and as I arrived at some ungodly hour of the morning, I had to wait the wrong side of customs until the Qantas ticket office opened the next morning. I then purchased a fully refundable ticket to Australia and was allowed to enter on a six month visitor permit. Pity my poor friend who had come to meet me and slept on a bench the right side of customs until I finally arrived
The next day I visited the Qantas office in Auckland and cancelled my fully refundable ticket
I then spent a few weeks travelling round New Zealand looking for the right place to fly, which had to be a NZQA approved school to get my student visa, which I got without leaving the country. Of course, things may have changed since then...
I have taught many students from the UK in New Zealand who all travelled over on a six month visitor's permit, as their study was for less than three months.
All the best in your travels and happy landings,
A.B.
I travelled to New Zealand in 2001 without an outward passage and as I arrived at some ungodly hour of the morning, I had to wait the wrong side of customs until the Qantas ticket office opened the next morning. I then purchased a fully refundable ticket to Australia and was allowed to enter on a six month visitor permit. Pity my poor friend who had come to meet me and slept on a bench the right side of customs until I finally arrived
The next day I visited the Qantas office in Auckland and cancelled my fully refundable ticket
I then spent a few weeks travelling round New Zealand looking for the right place to fly, which had to be a NZQA approved school to get my student visa, which I got without leaving the country. Of course, things may have changed since then...
I have taught many students from the UK in New Zealand who all travelled over on a six month visitor's permit, as their study was for less than three months.
All the best in your travels and happy landings,
A.B.
