INZ 1207 - Parent Category Guide - Purpose of this guide Overview of the Parent Category

the three years immediately before you apply for residence, and Step eight: Welcome to New Zealand • for the first ten years of your residence in New Zealand, undertake to ensure your We have a range of tools and resources to help you maintenance in New Zealand and that you have prepare for living and working in New Zealand. [...] If you are • both the adult child’s parents died before the granted a resident visa, should your partner apply adult child turned 18, and for a residence class visa or temporary entry class • the legal guardian had custody of the adult visa in the future as your partner, they will be child and the right to control the adult child’s required to complete a General Medical Certificate upbringing befo. [...] In the context of the Parent Category, if you are a grandparent, your children include: Completing Family details • the New Zealand citizen or resident adult child and all your biological and adopted children, and When you make a residence application you will • any of your partner’s children (whether or not the need to provide evidence of the relationship partner is included in the application) i. [...] establish the relationship of the adult child to the grandparent(s), or • evidence of adoption which establishes the relationship of the adult child to the grandparent(s). [...] You do You are the principal applicant if you are the not have to fill in the NZBN if you do not know primary person making the application for what it is or if the organisation you are providing residence.