{"id":1456,"date":"2021-10-21T20:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T10:04:05","slug":"will-being-hiv-positive-affect-my-move-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1456","title":{"rendered":"Will being HIV positive affect my move to New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: In October 2021 further HIV restrictions were removed in New Zealand. See:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/presscentre\/pressreleaseandstatementarchive\/2021\/october\/new-zealand-lift-travel-restrictions-hiv\">https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/presscentre\/pressreleaseandstatementarchive\/2021\/october\/new-zealand-lift-travel-restrictions-hiv<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Being HIV positive will not affect you visiting New Zealand. If you are looking to move there permanently being HIV positive will make you ineligible for a residential and working visa.<\/p>\n<p>However, don\u2019t lose hope because Australia is currently reviewing its policies on HIV positive people migrating to live there. The laws are already relaxing and the renewed policies should be in place within the next 1-2 years.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand immigration would not comment on whether they would also change their policies when I contacted them. In the past Australia and New Zealand have adopted similar immigration practices to encourage movement between the neighbouring countries. To follow any progress on this go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immigration.govt.nz\">New Zealand immigration<\/a> site<\/p>\n<p>Good luck<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was updated in 2021 from an original Q in 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning to move to New Zealand with my wife and start a fresh life together.  I have just found out that I may be HIV positive.  Will this affect my plans to get a job or even the application forms? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}