How to apply – Global Investor category- Part 1

If you meet the requirements and are ready to apply for residence under the Global Investor category, you will need to complete and submit an Application for Residence – Professional and Global Investor Categories (INZ 1150) PDF. Refer to the Professional and Global Investor Categories Guide (INZ 1151) PDF to help you fill in the application form.

A personal manager is available to provide information and contacts in the areas of immigration, settlement and investment.

You must provide evidence with your application – there is evidence that you must provide for everyone included in the application, and evidence that only the principal applicant needs to provide.

Evidence everyone must provide

For every person included in the application you must provide:

  • two passport-size photographs
  • photocopies of the identity pages of their passport
  • a full birth certificate.

Health

You must show that everyone included in the application meets health requirements by submitting a completed medical and chest x-ray certificate.

Character

You must show that everyone included in the application who is aged 17 or more meets character requirements by providing police certificates from their country(ies) of citizenship, and all countries they have lived in for 12 months or more in the last 10 years. This includes countries where the stay has been broken by short departures.

Evidence of your partnership

If your partner is applying on your application form too, you need to show that you have been living together in a genuine and stable relationship for at least 12 months.

Evidence you live together might include original or certified copies of documents showing shared accommodation (such as joint ownership of residential property, joint tenancy agreement, or correspondence (including postmarked envelopes) addressed to both you and your partner at the same address).

Evidence of your business experience

Acceptable evidence of your business experience can include (but is not limited to) original or certified copies of enough of these documents to clearly demonstrate your business experience:

  • business registration
  • company financial statements
  • company tax returns and tax records
  • shareholder certificates or proof of ownership of business
  • pay slips
  • job specifications
  • job assessments
  • personal tax returns
  • letters of appointment
  • certificates of service
  • strategic planning documents
  • references from employers on company letterhead, stating your position(s) and dates of employment, and giving the contact phone number and address of the employer.

You may be able to provide other types of evidence appropriate to your circumstances. If you worked part time, you must show the actual weekly hours worked.

If you are claiming business experience in more than one business you need to provide appropriate evidence for each of those businesses.