Meeting your AEWV accredited employer obligations
Understand the accreditation and legal requirements that you need to meet as an AEWV employer.
Legal compliance for AEWV accreditation
To get and keep accreditation for the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV), you and key people in your business must comply with immigration and employment law. There are penalties for non-compliance.
Accreditation for the AEWV
- The accreditation process
- Apply for an AEWV accreditation
- How to apply for a Job Check
- Legal compliance for AEWV accreditation
- Meeting your AEWV accredited employer obligations
- Tell us if a migrant stops working for you
- Guide to post-accreditation checks for AEWV employers
- Immigration law for employers
- Employer requirements to help settle AEWV employees in New Zealand
Alert
The Accredited Employer Work Visa requirements are changing in 2025. Changes include removing the median wage requirement, reducing work experience requirements and redesigning the Job Check stage.
For more information about the announcement, including a list of key changes:
Reforms to the Accredited Employer Work Visa announced
Tell us if a migrant stops working for you
Check if you need to tell us if a migrant employee with an Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) has stopped working for you.
Guide to post-accreditation checks for AEWV employers
What is involved in a post-accreditation check so that an Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) employer can have the evidence available.
Immigration law for employers
Employers who breach immigration law can be fined, imprisoned, lose their accreditation status and be placed on a stand-down list.