This page was last updated on 16 December, 2021.
At a Glance
Travel Restrictions
Entry For Vaccinated Travelers: Partially Allowed
Vaccination Requirements: All foreign nationals entering New Zealand will need to be fully vaccinated from November 1.
These COVID-19 vaccines are accepted at the border for entry into New Zealand by non-New Zealand citizens.
They are listed by manufacturer/developer, with their trade name and alternative name in brackets.
Anhui Zhifei Longcom (Zifivax, ZF2001, ZF-UZ-VAC-2001)
Astra Zeneca (Vaxzevria, AZD1222)
Astra Zeneca, Serum Institute of India (Covishield)
Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co (KCONVAC, Minhai COVID-19 vaccine)
Bharat Biotech (Covaxin, BBV152)
CanSino (Convidecia, PakVac, Ad5-nCoV)
Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, CIGB (Abdala, CIGB-66)
Chumakov Centre (KoviVac)
Federal Budgetary Research Institution State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR, FBRI (EpiVacCorona)
Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (Sputnik light). Only single dose required for this vaccine (“Sputnik light” only, not other Sputnik/Gamaleya vaccines).
Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (Sputnik V, Gam-COVID-Vac)
Janssen / Johnson & Johnson (Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine, Ad26.COV2.S, Ad26COVS1, JNJ-78436735). Only single dose required for this vaccine.
Khazakstan Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems, RIBSP (QazVac, QazCovid-in)
Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation, MVC (MVC COVID-19 vaccine, Medigen COVID-19 vaccine MVC-COV1901)
Moderna (Spikevax, mRNA-1273)
Pfizer/BioNTech (Comirnaty, Tozinameran, BNT162b2)
Shifa Pharmed Industrial Co (COVIran Barekat, COVIRAN)
Sinopharm, Beijing (BBIBP-CorV, Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, BIBP vaccine, Covilo)
Sinopharm, Wuhan (Sinopharm/WIBP COVID-19 vaccine)
Sinovac (CoronaVac, Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, PiCoVacc)
Takeda (TAK-919, COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna Intramuscular Injection). Note: this is a Moderna formulation.
Zydus Cadila (ZyCoV-D). Three doses required for this vaccine
Tourist Entry: Partially Allowed
Testing: Covid-19 test required for all countries.
Quarantine Required: Yes
Quarantine Details: Quarantined for 14 days required for all countries.
Local Restrictions
Lockdown in Effect: Yes
Events: Banned
Transport: Operational with restrictions
Shopping: Essential only
Restaurants and Bars: Open with restrictions
Detailed Travel Advisory
Published 10.12.2021
1. Passengers are not allowed to enter.
– This does not apply to:
– nationals of New Zealand;
– permanent residents of New Zealand;
– partner or dependent child of a national or a permanent resident of New Zealand. Their visa must be based on the relationship;
– nationals or permanent residents of Australia residing in New Zealand;
– passengers with a Resident Visa applied for on or before 30 November 2021. They must be arriving in New Zealand for the first time as the holder of that visa;
– passengers with a Resident Visa applied for on or after 1 December 2021 and issued under the 2021 Resident Visa Category;
– passengers who have a visa and have been granted an exemption before departure; details can be found at https://www.immigration.govt.nz/formshelp/request-for-travel-to-new-zealand ;
– passengers arriving from Cook Isl. or Niue if they in the past 14 days have only been in Cook Isl., New Zealand or Niue.
2. Passengers who in the past 14 days have been in Botswana, Eswatini, India, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa and Zimbabwe are not allowed to enter.
– This does not apply to:
– nationals of New Zealand;
– partner or dependent child of a national of New Zealand;
– parent of a dependent child who is a national of New Zealand.
3. Passengers are not allowed to transit.
– This does not apply to:
– nationals of New Zealand;
– nationals of Australia if they have not been in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa or Zimbabwe in the past 14 days;
– residents of New Zealand if they have not been in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa or Zimbabwe in the past 14 days;
– passengers with a New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority (NZeTA) if they have not been in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa or Zimbabwe in the past 14 days;
– passengers with a visa issued by New Zealand if they have not been in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa or Zimbabwe in the past 14 days.
4. Passengers are not allowed to transit through New Zealand to Australia, Cook Isl. or Niue if they are arriving from Australia, Cook Isl. or Niue.
5. Passengers are not allowed to transit through New Zealand to China (People’s Rep.).
– This does not apply to nationals of China (People’s Rep.) arriving from Cook Isl., Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga or Vanuatu.
6. Transit is only allowed at Auckland (AKL) for maximum 24 hours.
7. Passengers transiting through New Zealand to Australia must have a confirmed onward ticket on a red zone flight.
8. Passengers and airline crew entering or transiting through New Zealand must have a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before departure. Those entering must register the vaccination in the Managed Isolation Allocation System at https://allocation.miq.govt.nz/portal/.
– This does not apply to:
– nationals of New Zealand;
– passengers younger than 17 years;
– passengers with a medical certificate of contraindication;
– passengers with a consular or diplomatic visa;
– passengers who are members of the New Zealand Defence Force with operating orders;
– nationals of Afghanistan arriving in New Zealand on or before 12 December 2022;
– refugees with a visa issued by New Zealand.
9. Passengers must have a negative COVID-19 test taken at most 72 hours before departure from the first international embarkation point. Tests accepted are: antigen, LAMP, NAAT, PCR, RT-PCR and TMA tests. More details can be found at https://tinyurl.com/39tsn56h
– This does not apply to:
– passengers arriving from Antarctica, Australia, Cook Isl., Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Isl., Micronesia (Federated States), Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Isl., Tonga, Tuvalu or Vanuatu;
– passengers arriving from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa or Zimbabwe;
– passengers younger than 2 years;
– passengers with a medical certificate specifying that the passenger cannot take a test due to medical reasons and does not have COVID-19 symptoms. The certificate must be issued at most 72 hours before departure from the first embarkation point;
– passengers with a diplomatic or consular visa;
– passengers who are members of the New Zealand Defence Force;
– passengers arriving from Albania, Belize, Dominica, Kenya, Lao People’s Dem. Rep., Montenegro, Myanmar, Slovenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tajikistan or Turkmenistan. They must have a medical certificate issued at most 72 hours before departure from the first embarkation point and it must confirm that they have no COVID-19 symptoms.
10. Passengers arriving from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa or Zimbabwe must have a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure from the first international embarkation point. The test result must be issued by an approved laboratory listed at https://tinyurl.com/uav8cadf
– This does not apply to passengers younger than 2 years.
11. Passengers arriving from Australia must have a negative COVID-19 PCR or RT-PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure from the first international embarkation point.
– This does not apply to passengers younger than 2 years.
12. Passengers must have a voucher confirming their allocation to a place in managed isolation. The voucher can be obtained at https://allocation.miq.govt.nz/portal/
– This does not apply to:
– passengers arriving from Cook Isl. if they in the past 14 days have only been in Cook Isl. or New Zealand;
– passengers arriving from Niue if they in the past 14 days have only been in New Zealand or Niue;
– passengers arriving from Samoa if they in the past 14 days have only been in New Zealand or Samoa;
– passengers arriving from Tonga if they in the past 14 days have only been in New Zealand or Tonga;
– passengers arriving from Vanuatu if they in the past 14 days have only been in New Zealand or Vanuatu.
13. Passengers arriving from Australia, Cook Isl. or Niue must complete a health declaration before check-in. The declaration can be obtained at https://naumaira.covid19.govt.nz/ or https://border.covid19.govt.nz
14. Passengers could be subject to medical screening and quarantine for 14 days.
15. Airline crew not residing in Australia or New Zealand must have:
– a negative COVID-19 test result. Tests accepted are: antigen, LAMP, NAAT, PCR, RT-PCR and TMA tests. The test must have been taken at most 7 days before arrival; or
– a medical certificate issued at most 7 days before arrival. The certificate must confirm that they have no COVID-19 symptoms and they cannot take a COVID-19 test due to particular needs; or
– a medical certificate specifying that they do not have COVID-19 symptoms and are not contagious, if they were tested positive at most 7 days before arrival.
Detailed Tourist Information
Most foreign travellers can no longer enter New Zealand. New Zealand citizens, permanent residents, residents with valid travel conditions and their immediate family (partner or spouse, legal guardian and dependent children under the age of 24) can still come to New Zealand. Immediate family members cannot travel by themselves. They must travel with the New Zealand citizen or resident family member on the same flight to New Zealand. Australian citizens and permanent residents who normally live in New Zealand can still come to New Zealand.
Transiting through New Zealand is possible only for Australian citizens, residents and their immediate family, on their way to Australia, as long as they remain in the airport.
New Zealand citizens and residents. You have a legal right to come to New Zealand if you are:
-a New Zealand citizen
-a New Zealand resident with valid travel conditions.
If you are travelling from a ‘very high risk’ country
Travel from very high risk countries is temporarily restricted to New Zealand citizens, partners and dependent children of New Zealand citizens, and parents of dependent children who are New Zealand citizens.
The following countries currently meet the threshold of being very high risk:
Brazil
Fiji
India
Indonesia
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Travel restrictions for very high risk countries (https://bit.ly/2YzH0Ai)
You have a critical purpose to travel
You may be able to travel to New Zealand while the border is closed if we consider you have a critical purpose to travel.
Critical purpose reasons to travel | immigration.govt.nz (https://bit.ly/3hk9eFQ)
Most people who are not New Zealand citizens or residents legally must get approval from Immigration NZ before travelling to New Zealand. Some people do not need to request to travel.
Information from Immigration NZ:
Immigration during COVID-19 (https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19)
New Zealand border entry requirements (https://bit.ly/2YIZluZ)
The travel restrictions apply to all arrivals into New Zealand by air or sea.
All foreign nationals entering New Zealand will need to be fully vaccinated from November 1.
Vaccines Approved for Use in New Zealand:
Pfizer/BioNTech, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), Oxford/AstraZeneca
To track the vaccines update:
https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/country/new-zealand/
New Zealand has quarantine-free travel arrangements with some countries. Travelling quarantine-free means you do not have to enter managed isolation. Normal immigration rules apply for quarantine-free travel.
To be eligible for quarantine-free travel, travellers must:
– meet immigration requirements, and
– have spent 14 days in either Australia or New Zealand, and
– not had a positive COVID-19 test result, or, for those who tested positive, have written advice from a health practitioner declaring that they are no longer infectious, and
– not be awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test, and complete a travel declaration, and
– answer questions about your health at departure.
Travel quarantine-free to New Zealand from some countries (https://covid19.govt.nz/travel/quarantine-free-travel/)
Pre-departure testing to enter NZ
Most people must have a negative COVID-19 pre-departure test result before travelling to New Zealand. Some people do not need to get pre-departure tests.
Requirements for pre-departure testing for travellers to New Zealand (https://covid19.govt.nz/travel/pre-departure-tests-to-enter-new-zealand/)
Entering managed isolation or quarantine
It is important that people returning to New Zealand do their part to stop COVID-19 spreading in New Zealand.
If you are returning to New Zealand, you legally must complete at least 14 days of managed isolation or quarantine, unless you are arriving under quarantine-free travel. You will also be tested for COVID-19 during your stay in a facility.
Managed isolation and quarantine (https://bit.ly/3nkBM5K)
Most people who are not New Zealand citizens or residents legally must get approval from Immigration NZ before travelling to New Zealand. Some people do not need to request to travel.
Information from Immigration NZ:
Immigration during COVID-19 (https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19)
New Zealand border entry requirements (https://bit.ly/2YIZluZ)
Lockdown Details
Auckland and parts of Waikato are at Alert Level 3.
What to do at Alert Level 3 (https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/alert-level-3/)
The rest of New Zealand is at Alert Level 2.
What to do at Alert Level 2 (https://covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/alert-level-2/)
Sources
https://nz.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/
Data Source: covidcontrols.co
