Tips Completing New Zealand Arrival Card

New Zealand arrival card will be handed out to you during your flight to New Zealand. Filling up the New Zealand arrival card is very easy. Here are the top FAQ and answers of the card.

Tips Completing New Zealand Arrival Card

• Bring a pen with you.
• Section 1 – Occupation or job, simply put unemployed, if you do not have one.
• Section 1 – Full contact or residential address, write the name or the hostel address. If not, don’t worry, you may leave it blank.
• Section 2a –Answer them if you are not from New Zealand.
• Section 2b – Tick the “vacation/holiday” option, if you are doing a working holiday or backpacking in New Zealand.
• Sections 5 and 6 – If you don’t declare something that you should have declared, you will face a hefty fine. If in doubt, declare it!
• Avoid packing prohibited and restricted goods.
• Clean your sports and outdoors equipment before you packed them.
• Keep this card with your passport, as you will need to hand the card in at Customs.

How To Fill New Zealand Arrival Card

New Zealand arrival card, is a form that need to be filled up and hand it over to the custom officer when you arrive in New Zealand.

How To Fill New Zealand Arrival Card

Filling up the card is very easy, just refer to the instruction below.

Front page

Back page

Basically, there is no need to be worried when filling in the form. Some of you may not sure what to write in:

• Section 1- Full contact or residential address in New Zealand, write in the name of the backpacker. If you are not sure, leave it blank.
  Section 2a – Leave it blank if you are not from New Zealand.
  Section 2b – How long you intend to stay in New Zealand – Fill in the maximum validity of your e-visa.
• Section 5 and 6 – If you are not sure, declare the things you carry

Why Working Holiday New Zealand and Not Other Countries?

Why Working Holiday New Zealand and Not Other Countries? Simple, it is the easiest visa to apply! Unlike other countries, the application form may need to submit to the nearest embassy, followed by session of interviews.

The only way to apply New Zealand working holiday visa is via ONLINE. The further instruction or additional documents checklist is clearly stated in the next upcoming email or through your online Immigration account. Most people who made it to the payment stage, are most likely will get the working holiday visa.

Why Working Holiday New Zealand and Not Other Countries?

Being the youngest country in the world, New Zealand offers:

• Remarkable sceneries – A jaw drop or a big wow is not enough to express New Zealand beauty. It is hard for me to write in words actually, come and see it yourself!
• Priceless view by your own – It is perfectly normal, if you are the only person in sight on a beautiful beach, the only boat in a lovely cove, or the only horse on a mountain range. So, set up a chair and a cup of coffee to go with it! Sit as long as you want, or spend a night over! It is absolutely fine.
• Extremely unique species – New Zealand does not share any live form and marine species found in either Africa or south America but they do share a number of species with Australia and surrounding islands.
• Friendliness – Stand still with a map on hand, someone will come over to offer a helping hand within minutes! Try it, it never fails!
• Photographs that really looks like professionals – Thanks to the New Zealand sunny weather, clear blue sky and the long white clouds, every photos will turn out to be amazing! The scenery is so unreal, and people will doubt you, are the photos taken from the wallpapers library?! Friends or family are going to hate you for photos you posted!

New Zealand Working Holiday Application Fee

How much is the New Zealand Working Holiday fee? If you are a citizen of countries other than New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and citizens of Cook Islands and Niue, you need to pay NZD 170 for the New Zealand Working Holiday (Up to date, November 2016) for the application fee.

The fee is revised biannually. Therefore, please refer to the New Zealand Immigration fee guide before you apply.

Please refer HERE for the fee guide:

Visa or Master Card Payment Acceptable

All payment has to be made by Visa or Master, credit or debit card. If you are using a debit card, please ensure, that there is sufficient fund in it. It is fine to use your family and friend’s credit card too, if you don’t have any.

Orbit Protect Working Holiday Insurance Plan

In the previous post, top 5 reason to choose Orbit Protect, we mentioned about the Orbit Protect doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket. So, what the plan covers?

Orbit Protect Working Holiday Insurance Plan

The plan covers travel from your home country to New Zealand, your time in New Zealand, and travel back home. All of the insurance plans with OrbitProtect include cover for transits of up to 9 days en route (including stopovers) and 31 days of travel in Australia and South West Pacific.

Beside that, the working holiday insurance plan also covers:

• Medical
• Disrupted travel cover
• Property
• Loss of deposits
• Personal liabity
• Excess

Insurance Plan Details

In detail, please refer below:

	Working Holiday Insurance Plan
Medical expenses	NZD 250,000
Evacuation/return to country of origin if you become disabled	Responsible cost
Other persons’ travel and accommodation costs to travel to be with you	Up to NZ$100,000 A daily accommodation limit of NZ$250 to a maximum of NZ$5,000 applies
Funeral and cremation, or returning remains to your country of origin	Up to NZ$100,000
Accidental death	Up to NZ$25,000 (NZ$10,000 if under 16 years)
Luggage and personal effects are covered for their replacement cost (“new for old”) irrespective of age	Not automatically covered. Options available, contact Orbit Protect
Clothing and footwear that are more than 12 months old are settled on a depreciated basis (“new cost with a deduction for wear”)	Property cover can be arranged by specifying items at a cost of 2% of the total value
The maximum value per item you can specify is NZ$10,000. The limit of the total value of all items specified is NZ$30,000	Or choose the property cover option up to NZ$5,000maximum cover on any items, pair or sets of items isNZ$1,000. Additional premium applies
Additional travel and accommodation costs if travel plans disrupted by strikes, weather, etc.	Up to NZ$10,000
Cancellation of travel arrangements	Up to NZ$50,000
Legal liability for accidental death or injury or property damage	Up to NZ$100,000
The excess that applies to each claim	NZ$50 on all accidental injury claims and NZ$100 on all other claims

The cost of the working holiday insurance plan, is not expensive actually, please refer below: