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Active Investor Plus Visa Category Restructure

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

CountryNew Zealand
Operative dateApril 1, 2025
CategoryInvestor / business & economic migration / permanent residence
Policy toolInvestor category criteria overhaul / financial threshold modification / language condition removal
Affected groupActive investor plus visa applicants

Policy effect

Overhauled the Active Investor Plus resident visa settings by introducing Growth and Balanced investment categories, reducing investment thresholds, broadening acceptable asset classes, removing the English language requirement, and lowering physical presence requirements.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: Overhauled the Active Investor Plus resident visa settings by introducing Growth and Balanced investment categories, reducing investment thresholds, broadening acceptable asset classes, removing the English language requirement, and lowering physical presence requirements.

Official source excerpt

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On 1 April 2025, changes were made to simplify the investment process, including the introduction of 2 investment categories. … Changes to the Active Investor Plus Visa included the introduction of 2 investment categories: Growth category: focuses on higher-risk investments, including managed funds and direct investments in New Zealand businesses. It requires a minimum investment of NZD $5 million for a minimum period of 3 years. Balanced category: focuses on mixed investments, with the ability to choose ones that are lower risk. There is a minimum investment of NZD $10 million over 5 years. Other changes included: reducing the minimum investment amount from NZD $15 million (or weighted equivalent) to NZD $5 million for Growth and NZD $10 million for Balanced category investors broadening the scope of acceptable investments to include bond and property-type investments for Balanced category investors removing the English language requirement, and fewer immigration requirements, for migrants who choose more active investments, such as reducing the time required to be spent in New Zealand.
Immigration New ZealandOpen official source
Retrieved from https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/news-centre/investor-category

Review method

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite extraction with independent Gemini 3.8 Flash verification

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