Meeting the health requirements of the skilled migrant visa is one of the basic criteria for a skilled migrant visa application. It is thus important to understand what the health requirements are. If you do not, you could fail to comply and this might negatively influence your visa application.
You do not want to fail at this stage! The health requirements is one of the last parts of your application, meaning you would already have spent considerable time and money on your application.
Below we give you basic criteria for meeting the health requirements. We also explain why you and your family’s health plays such a large role in your planned skilled migrant application.
It is important for Immigration New Zealand to understand that both you and your family are in good health for 3 main reasons:
If you suffer from any of conditions below you will not meet the health requirements for a skilled migrant visa and you won't be eligible to enter the expression of interest pool:
Yes you must have one done. The health requirements for a skilled migrant visa requires each applicant to submit general medical certificate and chest x-ray certificate. This also extends to each family member that is coming to New Zealand with you. The exclusions to this (where you are not required to submit the chest X-ray certificate) are:
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