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New Zealand · Visa free remote · apply online, in country · processing up to 14 days
New Zealand has no separate digital nomad visa. Every visitor visa applied for on or after 27 January 2025 allows remote work for an overseas employer or client, including self-employed people, with no cap on hours. Remote work alone is not a lawful purpose for the visit: the holder must still be a genuine visitor, and must not work for a New Zealand employer, supply goods or services to anyone in New Zealand, or do work that has to be done at a New Zealand workplace. A multiple-entry visitor visa allows up to 6 months in each 12-month period. A single-entry visa allows one stay of up to 9 months in an 18-month period, and leaving ends it. Visa-waiver travellers request an NZeTA instead and receive a visitor visa on arrival, for up to 3 months, or 6 months for British citizens. Australian citizens need neither. There is no income threshold. Self-funded visitors show at least NZD 1,000 a month for maintenance and accommodation, or NZD 400 a month if accommodation is already paid, or an acceptable sponsor. The published visitor visa charge is from NZD 441: application fee NZD 300, immigration levy NZD 41 and the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy (IVL) of NZD 100. One fee and levy covers the application; each included person pays the IVL unless exempt. That is about USD 247 for the application and USD 56 for each extra person's IVL, at the Reserve Bank rate on 9 October 2026 (1 NZD = 0.56085 USD). Pacific-country citizens pay the Band B fee of NZD 120 plus the NZD 41 levy and are exempt from the IVL. Bilateral fee waivers drop the fee and levy, not the IVL: offshore visitor visas for citizens of Austria, Greece, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Turkey and the United States; Philippine visits of 59 days or less; any offshore visa for Japan; and any visa for Finland and Iceland. An NZeTA is NZD 17 in the official app or NZD 23 on the website, plus the IVL, and is normally decided within 72 hours. A partner, and unmarried dependent children aged 19 or under, can be included. Full medical insurance is recommended, not required. From 1 October 2026 this visa is applied for online, including from inside New Zealand while another visa is still valid. A further visitor visa can replace it, but only inside the 9-month cap; it is not an open renewal. People who arrive on or after 1 April 2026 and meet Inland Revenue's non-resident visitor tests stay non-resident for tax for up to 275 days in any 18-month period, and services income paid by a non-resident can be exempt for the same period. They must pay tax in a country where they are tax resident. Immigration New Zealand's remote-work page still describes the older 92-day rule and the treaty extension to 183 days.
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Last verified Oct 9, 2026 Last changed Oct 10, 2026 Source
processing time set to the published 80% within 2 weeks, stored as 14 days with no minimum. That figure is not a guaranteed maximum. The previous 14 to 42 day range is not on the current factsheet (https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/visa-factsheet/visitor-visa).
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