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Use the date you will enter. Without a date, the answer states the reference date it uses.
Conditions apply

Travel authorisation, 3 months

Before you travel: you need a travel authorisation (NZeTA).

The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.

Entry rule for 12 September 2026 Source checked 20 August 2026
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Entry and stay only. What this covers

Entry conditions2 to check
  • The waiver applies to residents of Hong Kong travelling on a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or British National (Overseas) passport.
  • The purposes of the visit must not include medical consultation or treatment.

Your stay

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Source & evidence Read the original words
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Official wording

citizens of the following countries, but only if the person concerned is seeking a visitor visa current for not more than three months and the purposes of the visit is not for medical consultation or treatment: … Hong Kong3 … 3Residents of Hong Kong travelling on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or British National (Overseas) passports.

Aevamo’s reading

E2.5 is the operative immigration instruction (certified under the Immigration Act 2009) that imposes the regime's default rule: a non-citizen may travel to New Zealand only as the holder of a visa, or as a visa waiver traveller holding an ETA. The Act s 14 it implements sits on legislation.govt.nz which refused all fetch attempts.

Hong Kong appears in the three-month visa waiver list with note 3, which extends the waiver to Hong Kong residents holding either an HKSAR or a British National (Overseas) passport; HKSAR passport holders are by definition Hong Kong residents, and both classes need an ETA.

Source details

Source checked
20 August 2026
Data snapshot
10 September 2026
Publisher
E2.1 People to whom a visa waiver applies … Effective 03/11/2025
Reference ID
inz-opsmanual-e2-1
How the documents behind this regime are dated

E2.1 effective 03/11/2025; E2.5 effective 01/07/2019; E12.1/E12.15 effective 03/02/2025; INZ pages Crown copyright 2026

What this answer covers Limits & assumptions

Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.

Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.