Costs
- Visa Appraisal Fees
- Immigration Fees and Levies
- Other Charges and Costs
- Professional Consultancy Fees
Migrating to a new country could be the biggest change in your life and lifestyle. And it will certainly cost you a tidy share of your savings to start a new life.
Applying for residence in New Zealand will involve different kinds of costs - some small and some quite big. It is vital to know about them in the initial stages so that you can plan well in advance and have no future shocks and surprises.
To start with, let us list all the different cost heads you might encounter:
- IELTS/TOEFL tests
- Medical and Chest X-ray tests
- Police Clearance Certificates
- Occupational Registration Fee
- Costs of translating documents into English
- Visa Appraisal Fee
- Professional Consultancy Fee
- NZQA Qualifications Assessment
- ESOL Tuition pre-purchase
- Expression of Interest Fee
- Application for Residence Fee
- Migrant Levy
As you can understand, some of the above might not be applicable in your case.
Just a quick run on certain costs and payments related stuff:
- All payments by the clients are to be made to our bank in New Zealand - as would be advised by us in the contract
- All fees and charges paid for the New Zealand Visas need to be in New Zealand Dollars
- All payments for the Visa Appraisal are to be made in New Zealand Dollars
- If you are located within New Zealand and request for a Visa Appraisal, you will be liable to pay 15% GST on the Visa Appraisal fee
- If you are located within New Zealand and submit any visa application for New Zealand, you will be liable to be pay 15% GST on all fee and charges
- As per the rules of the Immigration Advisers Authority (IAA) in New Zealand - all monies paid by the clients for the disbursal of Visa Application Fees to the Immigration New Zealand are required by law to be deposited in a separate "Client Funds" Bank Account and to be used only for that purpose
- Since all our online payments are processed through PayPal you may use your Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express credit card or PayPal account to pay us for the Visa Appraisal fee
- We strongly suggest using the International Telegraphic Wire Transfer for making payments for the Immigration fee & levies, and our Professional Consultancy fee
We will soon explain the various migration costs in detail. We prefer to call them as the cost of investment in a better quality of life for your family.