Study planning: why we start by asking where you want to end up
School information is easy to find; knowing which option suits you is not. Working back from career direction and existing experience — and when we advise against going ahead.
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InsightsEvery change in New Zealand immigration policy and every difficulty we meet in practice gets written up here so you can look it up. Each piece carries a name, because immigration advice carries responsibility.
Not the amount — the chain of evidence behind the money. Five gaps we see most often in real cases, and what can be done about each.
Read on“The hard part of an investor visa was never the amount. It's whether you can account for where the money came from.”
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School information is easy to find; knowing which option suits you is not. Working back from career direction and existing experience — and when we advise against going ahead.
A mother of two on why she chose New Zealand over the United States and Australia, how she decided who to trust, and what happened at school after they arrived. The letter in full.
Whether an agency deals with the school directly or passes everything down a chain decides how quickly documents, date changes and emergencies get handled. Also: what it can't do.
11 Sep Auckland, 18 Sep Waikato and Cambridge, 25 Sep North and South Island. Preparing for the February 2027 intake. Online and free.
The difference is more than NZ$5m versus NZ$10m. Looking at lock-in period, days required in the country and investment flexibility, and which category suits three common situations.
There is no fixed look-back period, because what's being traced is how the asset was formed. Starting from a property sale that had to be traced back fifteen years.
Beyond the figure in the article: how these cases actually go through, why an investor visa is also a financial matter, and the three places applicants get stuck.
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What a campus is actually like, how schools look after international students, how families get on after they arrive — hard things to convey in writing. All filmed or recorded by us. The player loads only when you click.
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The videos reflect each speaker's own experience and each school's circumstances at the time. Courses, places and fees are as published by each school at the time you apply. The videos also sit on theStudy, Settling In, ImmigrationandInvestor Visapages.
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