Bringing family if you have an ESWV

If you have an Essential Skills Work Visa, you can support a visitor visa for your partner.

Check if you are able to support a:

• work visa for your partner
• student visa or visitor visa for your dependent children.

Partner of a Worker Visitor Visa

Partner of a Worker Work Visa

Dependent Child Student Visa

Child of a Worker Visitor Visa

Supporting your partner's visitor visa

You can support a Partner of a Worker Visitor Visa for your partner.

Partner of a Worker Visitor Visa

Supporting your partner's work visa

We may approve a Partner of a Worker Work Visa if you earn at least NZD$25.29 an hour. This is based on 80% of the median wage.

If you supported a visa before 2 December 2024

We may have approved a Partner of a Worker Work Visa with work conditions if:

• you earned less than NZD$59.32 an hour, or
• your job was not on the Green List, or you did not meet the job's requirements.

A work visa with conditions means your partner, as the visa holder, needs to meet a set of employment rules or terms.

They must:

• work for an accredited employer
• be paid at least the wage threshold in place for their job, unless they are in a job covered by an uncapped sector agreement.

If you earn at least NZD$25.29 an hour, your partner can apply for a variation of conditions to remove the work conditions. Removing the work conditions means your partner can work for any employer.

Changing the conditions of a work visa or applying for a Job Change

Supporting dependent children

If you earn at least NZD$43,322.76 a year you can support a:

• Dependent Child Student Visa
• Child of a Worker Visitor Visa.

If you get a pay rise

If you get a pay rise and you now earn at least:

• NZD$43,322.76 a year, your dependent children can apply for a visitor or student visa
• NZD$25.29 an hour, your partner can apply for a Partner of a Worker Work Visa.