New Zealand Student Visa Processing Time: Guide For Year 2024

The country New Zealand welcomes a huge crowd to the country for several reasons one of them being education. There are a lot of students travelling to New Zealand to study abroad. The students before coming to the country require a student visa to enter and stay. This visa has a lot of requirements of its own, it takes into consideration the eligibility, cost and processing time. Do you what is the right time to apply for a student visa? If not, then this blog will give you all the information about the New Zealand student visa processing time and details about when to apply.  

What is New Zealand Student Visa Processing Time ?

Once the application for a visa is submitted it goes for processing where the official accesses the documents and the application to get ahead with the verification and grant the visa. There are several steps in the application processing including the interview and biometric registration. The time is divided into two frames, one for the internal verification and the other for the physical interviewing and registration of the biometrics. The total time that a visa application takes from the date of applying to the day of the visa grant is called the processing time for a visa. Therefore the time in which a New Zealand student visa is applied and till it is granted is the processing time for a New Zealand student visa. 

New Zealand Student Visa Processing Requirements 

Before you put in the visa application, it is important to check if all the requirements are met correctly to not extend the processing time and the visa rejection chances. The following are the New Zealand student visa requirements:

• The first important requirement is to get admitted to a recognised institution in the country and get an offer letter from the same institution
• You must have a passport with six-month validity and the availability of blank pages
• You must get your passport-sized pictures clicked based on the guidelines provided by the country 
• You must have evidence of the availability of the financial resources that can sustain you in the country and shall be enough to support your educational fees and other needs
• You must submit your previous educational qualification documents including certificates
• You will have to submit a health insurance that will cover your whole stay in the country
• You must provide proof of the accommodation that you have booked in the country for the stay after you land
• You must submit the travel insurance attained by a recognised private company
• You must submit the result of your English proficiency test 
• You must provide a character certificate from the authorities of your country clearly showing that you have no ongoing criminal case and any serious criminal record against you
• You must go through the medical test and provide the report of the same 
• If you are bringing your family members, then you must provide the additional documents that will be required and asked

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New Zealand Student Visa Processing Time 

The processing time for the New Zealand student visa can vary from application to application. The Immigration Department tries to process the application in a provided time frame but several factors affect the time. The following is the processing time for a New Zealand student visa:

• Around 50% of the visa applications are processed within 13 days of applying
• 75 % of applications are processed within 24 days 
• 90% of the applications are processed within 46 days

It takes around 12 to 46 days to 50 days for the New Zealand student visa to get processed. 

Factors Affecting New Zealand Student Visa Processing Time

The following are the factors that affect the visa processing time for the student visa of the country:  

• The time of the year matters a lot when it comes to visa application processing. There are peak times of the academic year when a lot of the students apply. When there are a lot of applications, the processing time gets longer
• The applications that are submitted are completed and have no places to fill get processed early as there is no need for the additional requirements to be filed and the application to return for corrections
• When the application is complex, it increases the application processing time. Complex application means that the verification may be harder or longer for it or there would be faults in the application 

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New Zealand Student Visa Application Process

The following are the steps to apply for a New Zealand Student visa application:

• Apply to an institution, get admitted and get an offer letter from the university 
• Gather all the documents that are mentioned above or the site to apply
• You will have to make a Realme account to apply
• Open the website of the country, get an application form, fill it in with the correct details and attach documents 
• Pay the visa application fees 
• Go for the interview at the consulate or embassy if asked and for the biometric registration
• Keep track of your application to know the status

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FAQs

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