🏛 Embassy visaTransit (changing flights in New Zealand)
Transit visa required to change flights in New Zealand
Botswana is not a visa waiver or transit visa waiver country for New Zealand, so you usually need a New Zealand Transit Visa even to change planes at Auckland. Exceptions in the transit-visa waiver rules include holding another current New Zealand visa, travelling to or from Australia with a current Australian visa, or holding Australian permanent residence.
Conditions
- •Auckland International Airport only: stay in the transit area (or on board / in police custody) for less than 24 hours; you cannot collect bags or leave the transit area.
- •Any other New Zealand airport has no transit area: you need a Visitor Visa or an NZeTA that lets you enter New Zealand.
- •Waivers (Immigration Regulations 2010 Sch 1) include: a current New Zealand visa of another class; travelling from Australia; onward destination Australia with a current Australian visa; Australian permanent residents.
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Official wording
“Immigration New Zealand: 'You are a transit passenger if you are passing through Auckland International Airport on your way to another country, and: for the whole time you stay in the transit area at Auckland Airport, on board the plane you came to New Zealand on, or in the custody of New Zealand Police, and stay for less than 24 hours. You will usually need a Transit Visa or an NZeTA that lets you transit'. Transit visa waiver list: Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Venezuela.”
