Green List Straight to Residence Visa Assistance — New Zealand

A residence application touches several areas at once — pathway selection, qualification and registration evidence, employer-side documentation, family inclusion, and character disclosures — and each area needs to be consistent with the others when INZ reviews the file. Professional support means someone is looking across all of those elements together: confirming the pathway decision is sound, sequencing qualification assessments and occupational registration so they align with lodgement timing, reviewing the employment agreement against the Green List role specification, and preparing partner and dependent evidence as part of one coherent application. The result is a file where every component supports every other component, rather than a collection of documents assembled in isolation.

Residence applications tend to touch several related immigration questions at once — visa sequencing, employer accreditation, qualification assessment timing, and family inclusion. Working with a firm that handles these within a single immigration practice means the coordination happens internally, rather than you managing separate advisers and hoping their approaches line up. The residence application stays the primary matter, and related immigration questions are handled on the same file.

Employer accreditation needs to be in place when INZ decides the application. If it lapses or is suspended during processing, the application can be affected. We monitor status during processing and, where we are also engaged on the employer side, we can assist with the steps needed to reinstate or maintain accreditation. Outcomes depend on the specific facts and on current INZ practice.

A request for further information is common and does not mean the application is in trouble — it means INZ wants a specific point clarified. We handle the response with supporting submissions. If an application is declined, we review the decision, discuss whether reconsideration, a ministerial request, or a fresh application on a different basis makes sense, and advise on realistic next steps. No outcome is guaranteed in advance.

Yes. We help AEWV holders consider whether the Straight to Residence pathway is a direct option given their current role and employer, or whether staying on the AEWV for a period makes more sense. The Accredited Employer Work Visa page covers that visa in more detail.

Partners who meet the twelve-month genuine-and-stable-relationship test and dependent children within the applicable age and dependency rules can generally be included in the same application. Evidence requirements vary depending on the relationship and on the child’s circumstances; we work through what is needed as part of the service.

This is one of the most common reasons people get in touch. The pathway decision guide above is a starting point; a first consultation lets us work through your specific situation and set out the realistic options in writing.

Processing times are set by Immigration New Zealand and vary by application type, complexity, and workload; we do not commit to a processing timeframe, and neither should any provider. On fees, we provide an engagement proposal after an initial discussion, once the scope of work is clear — for example, whether qualification assessment, occupational registration coordination, or family inclusion is part of the file. We avoid quoting a figure before that scope is understood, as it tends to mislead more often than help.