Hi

From the time your passport has the visa inserted, you have 12 months to arrive in New Zealand. You will also have a Returning Residents Visa inserted at the same time and that is valid for 2 years from the date you first arrive in New Zealand.

We had our visas inserted in to our passports on 14th July 2004. We now plan to go early June ( regardless of whether the house is sold or not!!), but we must be in NZ no later than 14th July 2005.

Dave