Providing Identity Documents to MIT
Here are some answers to common FAQs
The New Zealand Education Act 1989 requires education providers to verify the identity of both international and domestic students.
If you are a domestic student some of your fees are subsidised by the Tertiary Education Commission: a portion of the cost of delivering your study is paid for you, to your education provider. Why? Because New Zealand uses some of the money that we pay in taxes to invest in education for our population. Tax-payer money can’t be used for students that are not domestic students.
MIT might ask to see a legal document or documents that show your:
- full legal name
- date of birth
- gender
- citizenship or residency status.
For New Zealand citizens this would be one or more of the following documents:
- a New Zealand birth certificate, or
- a New Zealand passport, or
- a New Zealand certificate of citizenship,
For New Zealand residents this would be of one or more of the following documents:
- a passport with a current returning residency class visa (a passport with a visa label), or
- a passport, and letter or email, confirming current returning residency class visa (label-less visa, followed by confirmation with Immigration New Zealand, where appropriate), or
- a certificate of identity from Immigration New Zealand if the student is a refugee.
Give us a call and we’ll give you some advice on what documents we might need from you:
0800 62 62 52
If you are enrolling in the same programme of study, yes you would. This requirement is the same across all education providers.
You can order your birth certificate from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) by phone, post or in person (or online if you have a RealMe account).
Prices start from $33 for a standard birth certificate and will take approximately 8 days.??Here is the DIA Request for Birth Certificate Form
You’ll need a referee to sign the form — that is someone who is over 16 years old, and has known you for at least 6 months.
Post the completed form to:
Certificate Team
Births, Deaths and Marriages
PO Box 10526
Wellington 6143
New Zealand
You can either bring your ID in to any of MITs Ask Me! Service Centres and we will take a copy, or you can email/send us a certified copy of your ID.
A certified copy is a copy of your ID that has been authorised as a ‘true copy of an original document’ by a person listed in New Zealand’s Oaths and Declarations Act 1957.
This person could be a:
- Barrister or Solicitor of the High Court
- Justice of the Peace
- Notary Public
- Court Registrar or Deputy Registrar
- Member of Parliament
- Land Transport New Zealand, Public Trust, or local authority employee designated for this purpose.
Take your original ID to the certifier along with a copy (photocopy).
The certifier will sign the copy with the date and their official stamp on each page to say that the copy matches the original document that you brought to them.
You can scan and email or post the copy that the certifier signed to MIT.
- Please bring in your ID documents to an Ask Me! Student Services Centre. We can certify these on site.
- Find a local Justice of the Peace (JP) and take your documents to them.??Many JPs work from their homes and there will likely be one in your community.
- Some JPs also work for the Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) so you can also take your documents to your nearest CAB to get them.
If you live in a remote area you can get your documents certified by a member of the New Zealand Police, your local school principal, minister of religion, or Doctor (general practitioner).
If you are having difficulty providing your Identity Documents to MIT please contact us, we may be able to help: 0800 62 62 52
Locations
We offer several locations to drop off your evidence/documents or to get your documents certified.
