When Going To Australia

New Zealanders robotically receive a non-protected Special Category Visa (SCV) once they arrive in Australia offered they meet sure security, character and well being necessities. We encourage you to check your eligibility for entry to Australia by visiting the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection Ž web site or by contacting your nearest Australian immigration office to debate your plan to travel to Australia.

 

Getting an arrival stamp in your passport is the one bodily evidence that you just hold this visa. If you employ SmartGate (an automatic border processing system that lets you self-process by means of passport control) you're granted an SCV but you don't get an arrival stamp in your passport. If you want to acquire a stamp you'll be able to accomplish that by asking a Customs and Border Protection Officer.

 

You can then keep and work in Australia indefinitely so long as you stay of good character, do not current a serious well being threat (resembling untreated tuberculosis) and retain your New Zealand citizenship.

 

Non-protected SCV holders don't have the same rights and advantages as Australian residents or Australian everlasting residents. Australian authorities may also cancel an SCV if a person fails sure character and health necessities, comparable to committing a crime or untreated TB. In case your SCV visa is cancelled, you may be placed into one among a number of immigration detention centres before being deported from Australia.

 

When you arrive in Australia and border authorities refuse to grant you a SCV on character grounds, then you may also spend time in detention adopted by removal. New Zealanders making brief-time period visits to Australia ought to purchase comprehensive travel insurance coverage to cowl non-emergency health care prices, together with repatriation and ambulance costs.

 

New Zealanders are eligible to obtain free emergency hospital treatment under the Reciprocal Health Agreement, but New Zealanders with out an Australian Medicare card should pay the full value of any non-hospital remedy reminiscent of doctors’ visits or pharmaceuticals.

 

Without everlasting residency you aren't entitled to receive the complete vary of Australian social safety benefits together with the unemployment profit (‘Newstart Allowance/Youth Allowance’), the parenting fee, the special benefit and the sickness allowance. New Zealanders who arrived in Australia after 26 February 2001 should obtain Australian everlasting residency to be eligible to receive these advantages.

 

The only exception are these SCV holders who have lived in Australia for a minimum of ten steady years since 26 February 2001, who may be eligible to receive a one-off cost of Newstart Allowance, Youth Allowance or Sickness Allowance for up to six months (see the Department of Human Services website for more info).

 

For information on the Special Category Visa or making use of for everlasting residence in Australia, please see the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection web site. New Zealand residents who intend to live in Australia long term should apply for a Medicare card on arrival, which permits access to medical and hospital services. For extra info, see the Department of Human Services web site.

 

If you receive New Zealand Superannuation, Invalid’s Benefit or Veteran’s Pension and intend to reside in Australia chances are you'll qualify for payment in Australia. You must advise Work and Income of your plans and apply to the Australian authority (Centrelink) within a set time of arrival. For more information, see the Work and Income NZ website. Further information about New Zealand benefit assistance is obtainable from the Work and Income NZ webpage.

 

New Zealanders who get into difficulties overseas, together with in Australia, are eligible for consular help but there are limitations. See Our Services for extra data. New Zealand Government workplaces in Australia haven't any funds to help New Zealanders in monetary difficulty.

 

New Zealand companies similar to Work and Income NZ are unable to pay emergency advantages to help individuals outdoors New Zealand.