New Zealand
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25 May 2022
Certificate adoption
International Travel Vaccination Certificates comply with EU Digital COVID Certificate standards. The certificate will have a QR code that will be scanned when people are travelling. It will include details of the COVID-19 vaccinations they have had administered in New Zealand. This certificate is valid for 12 months.
Instrument type
Vaccination based
Certificate name
International Travel Vaccination Certificates
Certificate details
The certificate contains this information:
- Personal details
- Vaccine details
- Vaccination details
- Certificate expiry date
- QR Code which includes details of the COVID-19 vaccinations you have had administered in New Zealand.
Certificate format
Available in electronic format and can also be printed as a physical copy.
Entry protocol
For general measures
Those allowed to come to New Zealand without first requesting to travel are:
- New Zealand citizens and permanent resident visa holders
- Dependent child of a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
- A diplomat who holds a post in New Zealand
- Australian citizens or permanent residents ordinarily resident in New Zealand
- Eligible travellers from the Cook Islands and Niue
All non–citizens aged 17-years and over arriving into New Zealand, including New Zealand permanent residents and temporary visa holders, must be fully vaccinated.
Document requirement
- Most travellers to New Zealand must have a negative PCR or RT-PCR test within 48 hours of their scheduled departure of their first international flight. They still need a test even if you have been vaccinated for COVID-19.
- Medical certificates
If travellers are required to provide a medical certificate because they cannot take a test due to medical reasons, they will also need to get this 48 hours before their flights.
Upon arrival in New Zealand travellers will be required to produce proof of a negative test result to a Customs officer during your passport processing.
A hard copy or electronic copy of the test result from an accredited laboratory will be acceptable documentation of a negative test
Quarantine
Travellers to New Zealand from all countries, except eligible travellers from a quarantine–free travel zone, must complete a 10-day stay (instead of 7-days stay) followed by self–isolation at home for 3 days.
Anyone travelling to New Zealand (except travel from within a quarantine-free travel bubble) will be required to have a COVID-19 test within 24 hours of arrival in a managed isolation and quarantine facility. Arrivals must remain in their managed isolation or quarantine facility room until the results of the test is known.
For more information, please visit https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19/border-closures-and-exceptions/entry-to-new-zealand/border-entry-requirements
Travel bubble
Autralia
Vaccine authorised to be used in the country
Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Nuvaxovid
Border status
Partially open. Travellers may be able to travel to New Zealand while the border is closed if they are considered to have a critical purpose to travel. Please see the Immigration New Zealand website for criteria.