R6.5 Allocation of places within the New Zealand Residence Programme (12/10/2016)

1. There are three streams within the New Zealand Residence Programme (NZRP):
   1. The Skilled/Business stream;
   2. The Family stream
   3. The International/Humanitarian stream.
2. The Government may, from time to time, reallocate places for approvals within the three streams and/or add places to the three streams.
3. The allocation of places for each stream across the two-year NZRP period is as follows:
   1. The Skilled/Business stream is allocated approximately 50,500 to 57,500 places.
   2. The Family stream is allocated approximately 27,000 to 29,000 places.
   3. The International/Humanitarian stream is allocated approximately 7,500 to 8,500 places.
4. For the places available under the Family stream, 4,000 places in total are available for approvals under the Capped Family categories.
5. These places for Capped Family category approvals include places for approvals under the Parent, Sibling and Adult Child categories for applications lodged on or before 16 May 2012 and approvals under the Parent Category for applications lodged after 16 May 2012.

Effective 12/10/2016