After successfully obtaining a student visa to New Zealand, in order to make your study abroad life smoother, there is an important step to pack your luggage before departure. This article has compiled the luggage preparation instructions for you before entering New Zealand. Let’s take a look together.

1. Important documents

Passport: It is recommended to copy the first page of the passport and the visa page separately on A4 paper as a backup.

Study type documents: original offer, payment voucher for tuition and accommodation fees, school transcript and academic notarization, original IELTS transcript, etc.

Photos: It is best to prepare more than 10 photos, taken within half a year.

Driver’s license: If you hold a domestic driver’s license, you may wish to bring the original with you. After it has been translated by a translation agency designated by New Zealand, you can drive directly in New Zealand with the translation, which is valid for one year.

Others include: birth certificate, criminal record notarization, and important phone number book (write down the phone numbers of domestic and New Zealand schools, homestay families, etc.).

2. Funds

Cash: If you bring in cash within 10,000 New Zealand dollars (approximately 46,000 RMB), you do not need to declare it.

UnionPay Card: Currently, some merchants in New Zealand can use UnionPay card transactions. ANZ Bank, BNZ Bank, KIWIBANK and other banks across New Zealand also allow UnionPay card holders to directly insert their cards to withdraw cash (exchange rate conversion and handling fees are required). After arriving in New Zealand, it is recommended to apply for a New Zealand local bank card and credit card immediately.

VISA card: If it is an ordinary domestic VISA card, its usage scope is the same as that of UnionPay card, and it also requires exchange rate conversion and payment of handling fees.

Electronic banking: If you have an electronic bank account in China, remember to bring a secure U-shield.

Electronic payment: In New Zealand, most Chinese-run shops have enabled Alipay or WeChat payment. For New Zealand locals, Apple Pay is becoming more and more common.

3. Life related

The North Island of New Zealand is not hot in summer, with the highest temperature generally around 27-28 degrees Celsius. The temperature difference between morning and evening is large, the summer is short, and the winter is not cold. In contrast, the spring and autumn seasons are longer, so clothing for all seasons should be mainly spring and autumn.

Formal wear: such as shirts, trousers, leather shoes, belts, ties, pins, etc.

Down jackets: There is basically no need for down jackets in the North Island, especially Auckland, so you can bring a packable down jacket. If you are really afraid of the cold, you can bring gloves, cotton hats, etc.

Shoes: casual shoes, sports shoes, running shoes, hiking shoes, basketball shoes, slippers, flip-flops, etc.

Sunhat and sunglasses: New Zealand’s summer is extremely hot, so a sunhat or sunglasses will become your good companion when traveling in summer! In addition to sunglasses, there are 6 boxes of myopia glasses, contact lenses, care solutions, and eye drops (3 boxes each of anti-fatigue type and antibiotic type).

Cold medicine: Don’t bring Contac! Never bring Contech! Contac contains ephedrine, which can be used as a poison and is a banned substance in New Zealand.

(All drugs containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are prohibited from being brought into the country).

Sockets: If you have a lot of electronic products, don’t forget to bring a power strip. Generally speaking, the power strip is more important than anything else. The electrical voltage standard in New Zealand is 230/240 volts, and the universal socket is a three-wire socket.

Mobile phone card: It is recommended to apply for a roaming number at a domestic business office. In rare cases, a domestic mobile phone can be used to receive the SMS verification code sent by the domestic website.

Extended reading: You must not bring any meat into New Zealand

1) Meat and eggs (including cooked, cold, fresh, preserved, packaged and any dried meat);

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　3) Milk, milk powder, butter, cheese;

　4) Dried bird's nest, American ginseng , moon cakes, meat dumplings, nostoc;

5) Fresh vegetables, fruits and fungi, jackfruit pulp;

6) Red beans, soybeans and other beans, millet;

7) Tangerine peels, orange peels, whole walnuts;

8) Xincontac cold medicine, musk-containing products (Angong Niuhuang Pills, Liushen Pills, Pien Tze Huang, etc.), dendrobium, antelope horns; < /p>

9) Honey, pollen, propolis, honeycomb and any items containing bees;

10) All live animals, pets, birds, eggs, fish and insects;

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11) All living plants, flower seedlings, corn, rhizomes and flower bulbs, seeds;

12) Garlands and garland items, straw, wheat straw;

13 ) Protected animal and plant products;

14) Coral, ivory, snakeskin, items made of crocodile ingredients, items made of whale bone, including any decorations, jewelry, gifts and handicrafts;

15) Clams, turtles and turtle shells.

Extended reading: Other instructions for entering New Zealand

1. When departing

Remember to take all the documents with you when transferring. This is not arbitrary, this is based on Just in case something goes wrong. , just allow enough time for transfer, remember to read the signs~

2. After arrival

Whether you are staying in a homestay or sharing a room with friends, you must Find someone to pick you up at the airport (of course, you can also take a taxi directly from the airport). Most homestays will pick you up at the airport. If you rent a house by yourself, you can find some local airport pick-up service people to pick you up. After you settle in, you can go to a nearby supermarket to buy daily necessities.