# New Zealand entry and residence for Australian citizens: Trans-Tasman arrangements > Eligible Australian citizens can receive a New Zealand resident visa on arrival, allowing them to live and work in New Zealand indefinitely. This is not an unconditional permission: character and health requirements apply at the border. Stretch does not convert the arrangement into a numeric visa allowance. Indefinite stay under the arrival arrangement, subject to character and health requirements at the border. Provenance: the Trans-Tasman zone rule and its cited instrument; no country-row trust or lastChecked metadata exists. Source: https://doastretch.com/visa/australian-passport/new-zealand/ Australian passport · New Zealand · free movement Rights not days Trans-Tasman Zone-rule provenance · no country-row confidence or checked date Eligible Australian citizens can receive a New Zealand resident visa on arrival, allowing them to live and work in New Zealand indefinitely. Next step **How we know** This page comes from the separate Trans-Tasman zone rule, not from a country rule. The instrument in the sources is the provenance for the right. The ordinary country-row confidence signals do not exist for this route, and Stretch says so rather than borrowing them. Sources are listed further down the page. ## What this right means This is not an unconditional permission: character and health requirements apply at the border. Stretch does not convert the arrangement into a numeric visa allowance. ## How Stretch treats this stay Stretch can still log days of presence for travel history and tax-day tallies, but it does not show a visa allowance, days left or a must-exit date for this free-movement route. ## Sources - **Free-movement instrument:** [Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement — AU Special Category visa (subclass 444) / NZ resident visa on arrival](https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/special-category-visa-subclass-444), zone source retrieved 2026-08-16 ## Questions Australians ask about New Zealand **Do Australians need a visitor visa for New Zealand?** Eligible Australian citizens can receive a New Zealand resident visa on arrival, allowing them to live and work in New Zealand indefinitely. The governing basis is the Trans-Tasman zone rule, not a country visa-waiver row. **How long can Australians stay in New Zealand?** Indefinite stay under the arrival arrangement, subject to character and health requirements at the border. **What conditions apply at the border or after arrival?** Character and health requirements apply. Border authorities decide whether the arrival permission is granted. **How is this route sourced?** The page is projected from the Trans-Tasman zone rule and the instrument it cites. There is no country row for this route, so no country-row lastChecked date, access trust label or stay-length trust label is available. 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Rules and eligibility conditions change; destination authorities decide at the border and after arrival. Check the cited instrument and the destination authority. Rulebook build 2026-08-30.