Information you’ll need to complete an online application

Your answers in the eligibility test will be transferred into the application form.

• If you’re not born in New Zealand:
  • your residency status 
  • date you were granted your residence class visa if you have one.
• Course details:
  • course start and end dates (you can estimate the dates and update this detail in MyStudyLink after you submit your application)
  • if you’ll be studying for a full year (a full year course takes at least 32 weeks to complete)
  • if you’ll be studying full-time
  • study break period.
• Any benefit you get or expect to get from Work and Income while studying.
• Any health condition you have that's likely to last at least 6 months.
• Weekly income you’ll get while studying (if you don’t know yet, enter $0 and update this detail in MyStudyLink after you submit your application).
• Where you’ll be living while studying.
• If you’re under 24 and don’t have a child:
  • your parents’ details
  • your relationship with them
  • whether they live together or not
  • their combined annual income
  • whether they’re supporting other full-time students aged 16-24.
• If you have a partner and both of you are 24 or over:
  • your partner’s personal details including:
    • their weekly income
    • any health condition.
• If you have a child or a child you support:
  • your child’s personal details
  • your partner’s personal details, if you have one, including:
    • their weekly income
    • any health condition.

Once you’ve completed the eligibility test, you’ll only need to provide a few more details to submit an application.

• StudyLink or Work and Income client number, if you have one.
• Contact details (this includes a NZ address).
• If you’re not born in New Zealand:
  • date you came to New Zealand
  • date you were granted your residence class visa if you have one.
• IRD numbers for yourself and your partner (if you have one).
• Tax code.
• NZ bank account details.
• If you have a partner, start date of your relationship. 
• Course details:
  • if your course is a fees-free level 1 or 2 foundation qualification or Youth Guarantee programme
  • student ID (if you don’t know yet, you can leave this blank and update this detail in MyStudyLink after you submit your application)
  • where you’re studying and what qualification level
  • whether you’ll be studying from home, eg distance learning.
• Details of any tertiary study you took before 1999.
• Income details while studying (if you don’t know yet, you can update this detail online in MyStudyLink after you submit your application).
• Parents’ contact details.
• Details of other full-time dependent students aged 16-24 your parents support including their date of birth, where they’ll be or will be studying.
• Contact details of an alternative contact person
• How much your costs will be.