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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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Portuguese passport holders must also have the right to live permanently in Portugal.
The purposes of the visit must not include medical consultation or treatment.

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Open source document

Portugal passport → New Zealand
Entry date: 2026-09-12

Travel authorisation, 3 months
Before you travel: you need a travel authorisation (NZeTA).
You may stay up to 3 months.

Conditions:
- Portuguese passport holders must also have the right to live permanently in Portugal.
- The purposes of the visit must not include medical consultation or treatment.

Source: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsmanual/46511.htm
Source checked: 2026-08-20
Data snapshot: 2026-09-10

This establishes the recorded entry rule and stay allowance, not admission, work permission, residence rights or a tax position.
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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: … Portugal5 … 5Portuguese passport holders must also have the right to live permanently in Portugal.

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.

Portugal appears in the three-month visa waiver list with note 5, requiring Portuguese passport holders to have the right to live permanently in Portugal; a qualifying holder needs an ETA and may stay up to three months.

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

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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.