{"id":143623,"date":"2025-11-19T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143623\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:32:07","slug":"new-zealand-citizenship-fees-to-increase-to-meet-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143623\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand citizenship fees to increase to meet rising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cUpdating fees is essential to maintain high-quality services and meet rising costs,\u201d said Adrian Jarvis, general manager services and access at DIA. <\/p>\n

\u201cNew Zealand citizenship fees continue to be among the lowest fees internationally following this change.\u201d <\/p>\n

In May, the price of an adult passport jumped from $215 to $247<\/a>, while a child passport went from $125 to $144. <\/p>\n

Last year, the Government hiked the international visitor levy (IVL), which is charged <\/a>to most visitors to New Zealand, from $35 to $100. <\/p>\n

\u201cA $100 IVL would generally make up less than 3% of the total spending for an international visitor while in New Zealand, meaning it is unlikely to have a significant impact on visitor numbers,\u201d then-Tourism Minister Matt Doocey said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIncreasing the IVL means we can continue to grow international tourism to support economic growth while ensuring international visitors contribute to high-value conservation areas and projects, such as supporting biodiversity in national parks and other highly visited areas and improving visitor experiences on public conservation land.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jamie Ensor is a senior political reporter in the NZ Herald press gallery team at Parliament. He was previously a TV reporter and digital producer in the Newshub press gallery office. He was a finalist this year for Political Journalist of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUpdating fees is essential to maintain high-quality services and meet rising costs,\u201d said Adrian Jarvis, general manager services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3548,1443,27709,96939,6726,22477,27083,4187,802,12470,42,5345,9862,11692,117,43,801,61,40,38,41,39,80],"class_list":["post-143623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-3548","tag-about","tag-adults","tag-applying","tag-become","tag-citizen","tag-citizenship","tag-cost","tag-costs","tag-fees","tag-headlines","tag-increase","tag-meet","tag-nearly","tag-new","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}