If you have overstayed your visa in australia can you still get a visa for new zealand?? have kiwi girlfriend for past year and wish to move to new zealand with her in 6 months but have already overstayed in australia, does this matter?? any advice would be most welcome

I am curious, how does the skiing conditions in NZ compare with say the middle-range resorts of European Alps? Is it feasible to have as proper ski holiday in New Zealand, and would it be cheaper than Europe (not including the flights of course)?

I am moving to New Zealand in 7 weeks on a year work visa. My friend is intending to come over there for a week with me to help me get settled in. The only question I have is that he has had drug charges and spent jail time here in U.S. in the past. There are no violent charges or anything other than those drug charges on his record. It is basically just possession and having drugs across state lines. He is currently on probation but he is cleared to leave the country and has a U.S. passport. Would there be any problem in New Zealand with him entering the country to stay for that week on a U.S. passport? Are checks run on the record of everyone entering the country at customs? I am needing to book my plane flight now for the turnaround on my visa but he wants to make everything would be ok before he flies over there. Does anyone know?

Hi I am an Australian heading to NZ 20th of August 2009 and returning back to Australia on 1st September. My passport expires on 10th April 2010 next year. Will i need to update my passport before I head over?

I'm Traveling to New Zealand in November and leaving the country on December 16. My passport expires Mar 17 2010. Will I have a problem?

I'm a photographer looking for the best time of year to photograph the South Island of New Zealand. Where are the most photogenic parts of the South Island?

Thanks for you response. I've been a commercial/industrial photographer for more than 30 years, but have always enjoyed landscape, cityscape and peoplescape photography as well. I refer to that genre of my work as personal work. While my commercial work has always paid the bills and financed my personal work, the landscape/personal work has provided more and more income in the past decade. One of my most recent projects was for a JW Marriott, the luxury version of the Marriott properties. Incorporating an international theme into the hotel, I was commissioned to photograph five different cities that had a sister-city relationship with Grand Rapids, Michigan, the location of the hotel. I spent four months photographing the sister-cities in Japan, Italy, Poland, Ghana and Mexico. Then my wife and I spent another four months printing and framing 1,500 signed prints that decorate all the guest rooms, suites and a permanent exhibition space in the hotel. Quite a project. My work also hangs in a number of corporate, hospital, university and residential environments. I'm fortunate to have found such a large following of my personal work, as the commercial photography, while supplying income, didn't provide much emotional satisfaction. The personal landscape work has.

If you'd like to see the Sister City Collection, you can go to my website at www.danwatts.com and follow the link to the Sister City Project and you'll see about 60 of my favorites from the collection. There are about 180 in the collection culled from about 16,000 photos recorded in total from the project. The bio link talks about the project and my other work.

While shooting the work in Ghana, I met a missionary who was from New Zealand. He traveled with us for a while and we became pretty good friends. Surprising considering our very different backgrounds. He has been bugging us for a year now to travel to New Zealand and spent time with his family there on the South Island. So I'm just doing a bit of research on where I would go to do landscape photography there.

Thanks again for your response. I hope to meet up with you sometime. Sue and I have become pretty competent travelers, having worked now in 34 countries on 4 continents. But I have not made it to New Zealand yet, something I have to accomplish before too long.

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I'm looking at moving with my family from UK to Wellington for a job. What's it like living there? What's the weather really like?!