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Border agencies collecting information

The below table shows which information fields from the NZTD declaration are collected and used by which New Zealand Border Agencies.

The agencies are:

  • New Zealand Customs Service (NZCS) Te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa.
  • Immigration New Zealand (INZ) Te Ratonga Manene, a part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment Hīkina Whakatutuki
  • The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) Manatū Ahu Matua
  • Statistics New Zealand (Stats NZ) Tatauranga Aotearoa
  • Ministry of Health Manatū Hauora and Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora (together Health)

The Privacy Statement describing the purposes for which these Border Agencies collect and use this information can be found on the Privacy page.

Collecting user information

NZTD declaration questions

Border agencies collecting information

Questions

NZCS

INZ

MPI

Stats NZ

Health
Preferred name ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Email address ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Contact phone number ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  

Your passport details
Given name(s) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Surname/family name ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Date of birth ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Country of birth ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Nationality ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Passport number ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  

Your travel details

          
Date of arrival into New Zealand ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Arriving in New Zealand by air or by ship ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Flight number ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Vessel type:
  • Commercial cargo
  • Commercial fishing
  • Small craft
  • Commercial specialist (non-cargo)
  • Cruise ship
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Vessel name ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Departing from (port) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Date and time of departure ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Arriving into (port) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Your contact details
Email address ✔ ✔ ✔    
Contact phone number ✔ ✔ ✔    
Full contact or residential address in New Zealand ✔ ✔ ✔    

Purpose of travel
Do you live in New Zealand? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
While overseas, which country or territory did you spend the most time in? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
What was the main reason for your trip? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Which country will you mostly live in for the next 12 months? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Your occupation or job ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Do you intend on staying in NZ permanently? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
How long do you intend to stay in New Zealand? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
What is your main reason for coming to New Zealand? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
In which country or territory did you last live for 12 months or more? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Immigration status
I am a New Zealand citizen using a foreign passport.   ✔      
I have a current New Zealand residence class visa.    ✔      
I have an Australian passport or permanent resident visa that allows me to return to Australia from overseas.   ✔      
I have a New Zealand temporary entry class visa.   ✔      
I am travelling visa waiver and applying for a visitor visa on arrival in New Zealand.   ✔      

Select all that apply:

  • I have been deported, removed or excluded from one or more countries
  • I have been refused entry to one or more countries
   ✔      

Have you ever been sentenced to 12 months or more in prison? Select the option based on the length of your original sentence, not time served:

  • Between 12 months and 5 years in prison
  • 5 years or longer in prison
   ✔      

Are you coming to New Zealand for medical treatment or consultation, or to give birth?

You must have the means to leave New Zealand, such as onward tickets. You may be requested to show evidence of this to your airline or border officials on arrival in New Zealand. 

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Do you have a medical treatment visitor visa?

Select all options that apply:

  • I am coming to New Zealand for medical treatment or consultation.
  • I am coming to New Zealand to give birth.
   ✔      

Travel history
List the countries or territories you have been to outside of New Zealand in the last 30 days (including in transit). ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Biosecurity items
Are you bringing into New Zealand:

Any food: cooked, uncooked, fresh, preserved, packaged or dried? 

Select all options that apply. If the food product is not listed, select Other.

  • Chocolate, sweets, lollies, confectionery
  • Potato chips, crackers, biscuits, cookies
  • Muesli/nut bars, processed nuts, breakfast cereal/oats, dried pasta
  • Coffee, tea bags, soft drinks, powdered drinks 
  • Ground spices, ground seasonings
  • Other 
     ✔    
Animal or animal products: including meat, dairy products, fish, honey, bee products, egg, feathers, shells, raw wool, skins, bones or insects?     ✔    
Plant or plant products: fruit, flowers, seeds, bulbs, wood, bark, leaves, nuts, vegetables, parts of plants, fungi, cane, bamboo or straw, including for religious offerings or medicinal use?     ✔    

Biological products: Animal medicines, biological cultures, organisms, soil or water?

Select all options that apply. If the products are not listed, select Other.

  • Drinking water
  • Holy water for religious purposes
  • Medication for use with animals
  • Other
     ✔    

 

Equipment: Equipment/clothing used with animals, plants or water, including for gardening, beekeeping, fishing, water sport or diving activities?

How was your equipment or clothing used? Select all option that apply.

  • With or around animals, including beekeeping
  • With or around plants, including gardening
  • In a river or lake
  • In the sea or ocean
     ✔    
Outdoor gear: items that have been used for outdoor activities, including any footwear, tents, camping, hunting, hiking, golf or sports equipment? Is the item:
  • Footwear
  • Tents, camping equipment
  • Hiking or tramping gear
  • Hunting equipment
  • Golf equipment
  • Sports equipment
  • Skiing or snowboarding equipment
  • Other
Has it been used in a farming, rural, forest or wilderness environment?		     ✔    

In the past 30 days (while outside of New Zealand) have you visited any wilderness areas, had contact with animals (except domestic cats and dogs) or visited properties that farm or process animals or plants?

What areas have you visited? Select all options that apply:

  • Zoo
  • Public city gardens and parks
  • Other
     ✔    
Do you know the contents of your baggage? ✔   ✔    

Restricted items
Are you bringing into New Zealand:
Medicine: Over 3 months' supply, or medicine not prescribed to you? ✔        
Restricted or prohibited goods: For example, weapons, indecent publications, endangered plants or wildlife, illegal or controlled drugs? ✔        
Alcohol: More than 3 bottles of spirits (not exceeding 1.125 litres each) and 4.5 litres of wine or beer? ✔        
Tobacco: More than 50 cigarettes or 50 grams of tobacco products (including a mixture of cigarettes and other tobacco products)? ✔        
Goods obtained overseas duty-free items: Goods obtained overseas and/or purchased duty-free in New Zealand: with a total value of more than NZ$700 (including gifts)? ✔        
Goods carried for business or commercial use? ✔        
Goods carried on behalf of another person? ✔        
Cash: NZ$10,000 or more (or foreign equivalent), including travellers cheques, bank drafts, money orders, etc? ✔        

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Do you know the contents of your baggage? ✔   ✔    
I declare that the information I am submitting is true, correct and complete. ✔ ✔ ✔    

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