Support your worker's RSE Limited Visa application
What you do as an employer supporting your worker's Recognised Seasonal Employer Limited Visa application.
When a worker accepts your employment offer, you need to ensure they, or the agent acting on your behalf, is fully supported for the RSE Limited Visa application.
As an employer you do this by:
- ensuring the work offered is planting, maintaining, harvesting or packing crops
- providing your worker with a written employment agreement
- complying with the requirements set out in your Agreement to Recruit (ATR)
- letting your worker know in writing what their voluntary deductions are
- sending their New Zealand flight details
- letting them know their insurance information.
Some of this information may go instead to the agent acting on your behalf. They may need it to help workers with their visa applications.
Helping workers with their visa application
Workers may need help with their visa application, such as arranging their medical certificates, medical insurance, and police certificates.
It may be you who helps the worker if you are in the worker's country doing your direct recruitment, or the overseas recruitment agent acting on your behalf.
- The visa lets them work in New Zealand for up to 7 months over an 11-month period. If the workers are from Kiribati and Tuvalu it is up to 9 months over an 11-month period. Your ATR is used to work out the duration of the worker's visa.
- Workers are issued visas with conditions. This includes work conditions which say who their employer is, how long they can work for them, and what region of New Zealand they can work.
- RSE workers still in New Zealand after their RSE Limited Visas expire risk being deported.
If you do not leave New Zealand before your visa expires
Minimum requirements for an RSE worker employment agreement
Employer requirements for the RSE Scheme
Voluntary deductions for RSE workers
Recognised Seasonal Employer Limited Visa – information for RSE workers
Rights and responsibilities for employers and employees – Employment New Zealand website