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New Zealand

Visitor visa with remote-work condition (no DNV)

PR: Nono programmeUTC+13

No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.

The requirements

Programme status
No dedicated nomad visa
Minimum monthly income
No income minimum
Required savings
None
Annual total
No minimum
Initial duration
Up to 9 months in 18
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

No income minimum; NZD 1,000/month maintenance funds.

How this figure is set: No income test at all. The wording on the source is: no income minimum; maintenance funds NZD 1,000/month (NZD 400 if accommodation prepaid).

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Immigration New Zealand visitor visa page; INZ news release 'Working remotely from New Zealand' (27 Jan 2025).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. Visitor status; no residence credit. Residence needs a work visa (Green List or Work to Residence).

Immigration New Zealand's own pages: all visitor visas applied for on or after 27 January 2025 permit unlimited remote work for an overseas employer or client, but INZ's residence pathways run through work visas - Green List straight-to-residence, or Work to Residence followed by a Permanent Resident Visa after two years. Visitor time is not among them, so remote work on a visitor visa carries no residence credit. The 92-day rule the row mentions is a tax exemption, not a residence rule.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Wellington sits at 41.29° S, 174.78° E.

New Zealand picked out on a world map

Open in Google Maps ↗A map of Wellington. This is the only link here that leaves the site.

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Time zone

  • UTC+13 Auckland (Pacific/Auckland)
  • UTC+13:45 Chatham (Pacific/Chatham)

New Zealand spans 2 offsets. The table shows the capital's.

The country

Region
Oceania · Australia & New Zealand
Capital
Wellington
Currency
NZD

Nearest

New Zealand has no land border. These are the nearest countries covered here, by the distance between capitals.

What it costs to live there

$2,331 per person, per month. That is what one resident of New Zealand spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Wellington
$2,455 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,524
Auckland
$2,624 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,577

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2024: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • English official
  • Māori official

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

There is no live application for New Zealand in this dataset. What the row records about residence: Visitor status; no residence credit. Residence needs a work visa (Green List or Work to Residence).

Immigration NZ visitor visa ↗

Since Jan 2025 remote work for a foreign employer allowed as a visitor. Tax-free under 92 days.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .