Five Years, but Counted as 1,350 Days With a Floor of 240 in Each One - and the Clock Starts the Day an Australian Walks Through the Airport
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of United Kingdom on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
195 exceptions recorded across 74 countries · none match United Kingdom to New Zealand · Becoming a citizen
Section 8 of the Citizenship Act 1977 is the grant provision and it is unusually explicit about arithmetic. The Minister may authorise a grant to a person who is 16 or over, of full capacity, applies in the prescribed manner, and satisfies the Minister of six things: that they are entitled under the Immigration Act 2009 to be in New Zealand indefinitely; that they were present in New Zealand for a minimum of 1,350 days during the five years immediately preceding the application and for at least 240 days in each of those five years, those being days on which they were entitled to be here indefinitely; that they are of good character; that they have sufficient knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges attaching to New Zealand citizenship; that they have sufficient knowledge of the English language; and that they intend to go on living here or to enter Crown or equivalent service. Two things about the day count matter more than the headline. It is not five calendar years of residence - 1,350 days out of 1,826 is about 74 per cent of the period, so roughly 476 days of absence are allowed overall - but the 240-day annual floor stops those absences being taken in one block. And the days only count if the person was already entitled to be here indefinitely on each of them, so time on a work or student visa is worth nothing towards it. Section 8(3) adds a trap for investors and some family-category residents: a person is not treated as entitled to be here indefinitely if conditions were imposed under the Immigration Act on their entitlement to reside indefinitely and those conditions have not been met in full or cancelled when they apply. A resident visa with live section 49(1) conditions therefore does not start the clock. Section 8(7) allows the Minister, in exceptional circumstances particular to the applicant, to accept fewer days, subject to a hard floor of 450 days physically present in the 20 months before the application. Renouncing another citizenship is not among the six requirements; section 15 lets a New Zealand citizen renounce New Zealand citizenship, and it is available only to someone another country already recognises as its citizen. Citizenship by descent under section 7 stops after one generation: a person born abroad is a citizen by descent only if a parent was a citizen otherwise than by descent, or was a citizen by descent and the child would otherwise be stateless.
At a glance
- Days of presence required
- 1,350 in the 5 years before the application
Section 8(2)(b)(i) of the Citizenship Act 1977. Five years is 1,826 days, so the rule tolerates about 476 days of absence in total.
- Annual floor
- 240 days in each of the 5 years
Section 8(2)(b)(ii). This is what stops the 476 days of permitted absence being taken as one long trip.
- Which days count
- Only days on which the applicant was already entitled under the Immigration Act 2009 to be in New Zealand indefinitely
The closing words of section 8(2)(b). Time on a work, student or visitor visa does not count towards either figure.
- Effect of conditions on a resident visa
- The applicant is not treated as entitled to be here indefinitely while unmet conditions stand
Section 8(3). The conditions must be met in full or cancelled at the time of the citizenship application.
- Minimum the Minister may accept in exceptional circumstances
- 450 days physically present in the 20 months before the application
Section 8(7)(a). The applicant must also have been entitled to be here indefinitely on each of those 450 days.
- Renouncing an existing citizenship
- Not among the six requirements in section 8(2) of the Citizenship Act 1977
Section 8(2) was read in full and lists entitlement to be here indefinitely, presence, good character, knowledge of citizenship, knowledge of English and intention to reside. Section 15 deals with renouncing New Zealand citizenship, and is open only to someone another country already recognises as its citizen.
- Minimum age
- 16
Section 8(1)(a). Section 9 deals with grants in special cases.
- Generations citizenship by descent passes through
- One
Section 7(1)(a): the parent must have been a citizen otherwise than by descent. Section 7(1)(b) makes a single exception where the child would otherwise be stateless.
Requirements
- Age 16 or over and of full capacity
- Entitlement under the Immigration Act 2009 to be in New Zealand indefinitely, with any conditions on that entitlement met in full or cancelled
- Presence in New Zealand for at least 1,350 days in the 5 years before the application, and at least 240 days in each of those years, on days when the entitlement to be here indefinitely already existed
- Good character
- Sufficient knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of New Zealand citizenship
- Sufficient knowledge of the English language
- An intention to go on residing in New Zealand, or to enter Crown service or equivalent service
In detail
What 1,350 days actually permits
The Act does not ask for five years of residence; it asks for 1,350 days of presence inside a five-year window with a floor of 240 days in each year of it. Five years is 1,826 days, so the headline figure allows about 476 days away in total - but the annual floor means at most 125 or 126 days away in any one of the five years. The two conditions bite in different directions: a long single absence breaks the annual floor without necessarily breaking the total, and a pattern of four-month trips every year can break the total while clearing the floor every time.
The days must already be resident days
Section 8(2)(b) closes with a qualification that does more work than the numbers: the days must be days on which the applicant was entitled in terms of the Immigration Act 2009 to be in New Zealand indefinitely. Years spent here on a work visa, a student visa or a visitor visa contribute nothing. The clock starts on the day the residence class visa takes effect. For a person who came through the Accredited Employer Work Visa and then the Skilled Migrant Category, that can be a decade after they first arrived. For an Australian citizen granted a resident visa at the airport under regulation 8 of the Immigration (Visa, Entry Permission, and Related Matters) Regulations 2010, it starts on the day of arrival.
Conditions on the visa stop the clock before it starts
Section 8(3) is easy to read past. If conditions were imposed under the Immigration Act on the person's entitlement to reside indefinitely, and those conditions are not met in full or cancelled when they apply, they are not treated as entitled to be here indefinitely at all. Resident visas granted under the investor and some family categories carry conditions under section 49(1) of the Immigration Act 2009 - typically keeping an investment in place for a stated number of years - so the residence looks the same on paper and does not count the same for citizenship.
Nothing requires giving up what you have
Section 8(2) sets out six requirements and renunciation of another citizenship is not one of them. The only renunciation in the Act runs the other way: section 15 lets a New Zealand citizen give up New Zealand citizenship, and only if another country already recognises them as its citizen, which is a safeguard against statelessness rather than a restriction on holding two. If the person is resident in New Zealand at the time, the Minister may decline to register the declaration at all.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of United Kingdom
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«The Minister may authorise the grant of New Zealand citizenship to any person, including a person who may be a New Zealand citizen by descent, who—»The word is 'may'. Meeting the six requirements in subsection (2) entitles the applicant to be considered, not to be granted.
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«that the applicant is entitled in terms of the Immigration Act 2009 to be in New Zealand indefinitely:»Both a resident visa and a permanent resident visa carry that entitlement under sections 73 and 74 of the Immigration Act 2009.
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«for a minimum of 1 350 days during the 5 years immediately preceding the date of the application; and»The Act prints the figure with a space rather than a comma: 1 350.
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«for at least 240 days in each of those 5 years,—»The words that follow the dash are the ones that matter: 'being days during which the applicant was entitled in terms of the Immigration Act 2009 to be in New Zealand indefinitely'.
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«that the applicant has sufficient knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges attaching to New Zealand citizenship:»The Act sets no test, no pass mark and no syllabus. What the Department of Internal Affairs does to satisfy itself was not read.
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«that the applicant has sufficient knowledge of the English language:»English only. Neither of New Zealand's other two official languages appears in the requirement.
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«conditions have been imposed under the Immigration Act 2009 on the person's entitlement to reside in New Zealand indefinitely; and»Paragraph (b) completes it: the conditions must not have been met in full or cancelled at the time of the citizenship application. Section 49(1) of the Immigration Act 2009 is what allows conditions on a resident visa, and investor and some family categories carry them.
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«was physically present in New Zealand for not less than 450 days during the 20-month period immediately preceding the date of the application for citizenship; and»Available only where the Minister is satisfied there are exceptional circumstances particular to the applicant.
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«A New Zealand citizen who has attained the age of 18 years and is of full capacity and who is recognised by the law of another country as a citizen of that country may, at any time, make a declaration of renunciation of their New Zealand citizenship in the prescribed manner.»The Minister may decline to register the declaration if the declarant is resident in New Zealand or if a state of war exists. Renouncing New Zealand citizenship while in New Zealand makes the person deemed to hold a resident visa under section 75 of the Immigration Act 2009.
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«the person's mother or father was a New Zealand citizen otherwise than by—»The two exclusions are descent, and grant under section 7A of the Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982. A grandchild born abroad to a parent also born abroad is outside section 7 unless they would otherwise be stateless.
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«the person was born in New Zealand on or after 1 January 2006, and, at the time of the person's birth, at least one of the person's parents was—»Unqualified birthright citizenship ended on 1 January 2006. Section 6(1)(a) keeps it for anyone born in New Zealand between 1 January 1949 and 31 December 2005.
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Practical notes
The claim that renouncing another citizenship is not required rests on reading section 8(2) of the Citizenship Act 1977 in full. Nothing published by the Department of Internal Affairs was read for this record, so what the Department asks for in practice is not stated here.
The Citizenship Regulations and the prescribed manner of applying were not read, and nor was the fee.
How 'sufficient knowledge of the English language' and 'sufficient knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges' are tested is not in the Act and is not recorded here.
Section 9, which allows a grant in special cases, section 9A, and the Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982 were not read.
The record was written from the version of the Act the publisher dates 6 June 2026. Unlike several other New Zealand instruments read on the same day, that page does not carry the line 'Some amendments have not yet been incorporated'.
- consolidatesCitizenship Act 1977, version as at 6 June 2026
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