Length of Stay:<\/strong> 12 months, or possible 15 months.<\/p>\nU.S. citizens have one of the shorter working holiday visas. Although, if you are willing to work in New Zealand\u2019s agricultural sector for three months, your visa will be extended to fifteen months.<\/p>\n
Return Ticket Necessary<\/strong>: Yes, or sufficient funds to purchase a return ticket.
\nOnce again, I was never asked to provide this information. However, it is always a good idea to be prepared, especially for when you arrive in New Zealand and go through immigration.<\/p>\nApplication Fee:<\/strong> $165 USD.
\nThe application was actually FREE for me because I was applying online and from outside of New Zealand.<\/p>\nOther Information: <\/strong>Be prepared to set up a bank account, a New Zealand phone number, and an IRD number for taxes. These three things will be essential when applying for jobs\u00a0 in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are a U.S. citizen, obtaining a temporary work visa for New Zealand is quick and simple. Even though I had studied abroad in England in 2013, living full-time in a different country was a dream I was determined to achieve. So, when the director of the Higher Education Administration program at Kent State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":8348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1399],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[7147,21528,9904,21529,1996,16710,4609,19174,20400,21530,9527,2376,7304,21527,2092,3302,2000,16708,16707,9517],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_9354-min.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}