10 December 2014 at 9:00 am
INZ’s new eMedical system
Immigration New Zealand has joined eMedical, an online immigration health processing system developed by Australia's Department of immigration and Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
About 20 percent of visa applicants require a physical health assessment as part of their application. Replacing INZ’s existing paper-based medical certificate, eMedical will be used by INZ’s panel physicians to record results of an applicants’ immigration medical examination. This information is provided to Immigration New Zealand through a secure online channel and in most cases, will not need manual assessment by immigration officers.
In the first stage, eMedical is available to six offshore countries - Cambodia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Viet Nam.
There will be a second rollout stage at the end of January 2015 to all offshore eMedical-enabled countries. The final rollout stage will be onshore in New Zealand from the end of March 2015, coinciding with the establishment of INZ’s new onshore panel physician network.
Paper-based certificates will continue to be used in countries where eMedical is not available.
For more information visit INZ’s website.
