Arrangements for special category visa applications

‘The purpose of the instrument is to support a new online process that will allow New Zealand visa applicants to complete a digital version of Form 15 (the incoming passenger card) and to request an appointment to visit a Departmental office and lodge their visa application in person’

The Migration (LIN 19/058: Arrangements for special category visa applications) Instrument 2019 commences on 23 March 2019 and its explanatory statement includes the following passage:

The purpose of the instrument is to support a new online process that will allow New Zealand visa applicants to complete a digital version of Form 15 (the incoming passenger card) and to request an appointment to visit a Departmental office and lodge their visa application in person. The repealed instrument specified only the paper Form 15, for the purposes of subitem 1219(1) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations.


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Sergio Zanotti Stagliorio is a Registered Migration Agent (MARN 1461003). He is the owner of Target Migration in Sydney. He can be reached at sergio@targetmigration.com.au

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