Applying for a job check: employer checklist

This checklist is to help accredited employers who need to complete a job check before hiring migrant workers on the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV).

Applying for a job check: process steps

Before you start a job check application

Before you start your application:

  • you need to be accredited to hire migrants on an AEWV
  • check if you need to advertise the job or engage with Work and Income
  • create a RealMe® login to access Immigration Online
  • use the Immigration Online application form
  • if you have standard accreditation, make sure you have space available to hire another migrant within your allocation of 5 migrants.

Applying for a job check: process steps

AEWV employer accreditation and job check process

How to create a RealMe account

Immigration Online

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What you will need to complete the online form

Use this checklist to ensure you have all the information and evidence you need to submit with your application.

Green List roles

What is ANZSCO and how to find your skill level

You must have copies of documents ready to upload when requested in the 'Supporting documents' section of the job check.

If you do not provide the required supporting documents, there may be a delay in processing your application.

You will also need to pay the application fee.

Note

You can include multiple vacancies in 1 job check application if the job details are the same and they are covered by the same employment agreement and job advertisement.

If the location, job title or terms of work are different, you will need to submit a separate job check application for each job.

Employment details

Note

Make sure you choose an accurate ANZSCO code for the job. If you apply for a job check for an ANZSCO level 1, 2 or 3 job, but we assess it as being ANZSCO level 4 or 5, we may decline your application, and you will need to apply again using the correct ANZSCO code.

Pay rates

The job must pay the New Zealand market rate.

How we calculate pay rates for the AEWV

Wage rate requirements for visas

Deductions — Employment New Zealand

If you advertised the job

Note

If the job is on the Green List or pays at least NZD $59.32 an hour you do not need to advertise the job.

You must advertise a job for a minimum of 14 calendar days for roles at ANZSCO skill levels 1 to 3, and for 21 calendar days for roles at ANZSCO skill levels 4 and 5.

Advertise the job before your Job Check

If you engaged with Work and Income

Before you apply for a Job Check, you must engage with Work and Income if the job is ANZSCO skill level 4 or 5. You must engage with Work and Income in addition to advertising the job. You can engage with Work and Income while you are advertising the job.

In most cases, INZ will accept your declaration that you have engaged with Work and Income in good faith. However, in some instances INZ may ask to see evidence of that engagement during the job check process. This evidence could include:

  • a copy of the completed Work and Income form, including the date it was submitted, details of your business, title of the job available, the number of positions available, and ANZSCO code
  • if the vacancy is listed by Work and Income, a screenshot of the listing
  • communications with Work and Income, such as emails provided when the listing closed or if they advised they have no candidates available.

We may also contact Work and Income at any time to check you have engaged in good faith.

Engaging with Work and Income before you apply for a job check

Proposed employment agreement

You will be asked to provide an unsigned draft contract or employment agreement for the job you are offering.

Note

Employment agreements must have all the clauses required by employment law. There are some immigration-specific requirements you must include.

If you apply for a Job Check and the employment agreement does not meet these requirements the application may be declined.

Creating an employment agreement — Employment New Zealand

You can still negotiate pay and hours with the worker, as long as the actual hours are within the range provided in your Job Check. The information you provide helps us check the guaranteed pay rate if we need to.

How we calculate pay rates for the AEWV

Recruitment, training or equipment costs

When you apply for a Job Check you will be asked to declare that you will not pass on any recruitment, training or equipment costs related to the job to the employee. This applies if the employee is inside or outside of New Zealand.

Pay the application fee

You can pay the job check application fee by:

  • credit card
  • debit card
  • China UnionPay
  • POLi

Paying for AEWV employer accreditation and job checks