About us

The New Zealand Traveller Declaration is an important part of the New Zealand Government’s plan for re-opening borders, providing an online platform for the collection and assessment of travellers’ public health risk.

On 12 August 2021, the Government announced its plan – Reconnecting New Zealanders to the World – to safely reopen our borders and develop new ways for people to travel to and from Aotearoa New Zealand

This included a new framework for travel. To support this, the New Zealand Traveller Declaration system was developed to collect information from individual passengers prior to departing for New Zealand.

Reconnecting New Zealanders to the World | covid19.govt.nz

The New Zealand Traveller Declaration is an online platform that collects COVID-19 information from travellers to New Zealand, to determine their public health risk to New Zealand and requirements they need to meet to enter the country.

Information that travellers provide through the system is verified and assessed against health rules to determine the traveller’s pathway. The health rules are based on the COVID-19 legal requirements.

New Zealand Customs Service is the lead agency for the New Zealand Traveller Declaration and works closely with Immigration New Zealand and the Ministry of Health to deliver the online system.

Our Māori name – Te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa – translates as “the authority that screens and protects New Zealand”.