Travel dates copied from old emails and passport stamps are useful, but they are not always complete. Immigration New Zealand lets people request personal information it holds, including arrival and departure records and immigration status.
Use INZ's personal-information request
Open the official “Request my information” service and choose the option for your arrival and departure records. Provide enough identifying information for INZ to match the request accurately. The official page says privacy requests can take up to 20 working days, so do not leave this until the afternoon before you plan to apply.
Compare the records with your own timeline
Once the records arrive, compare them with:
- your passport and previous passports;
- airline itineraries and booking emails;
- Resident Visa grant and entry dates;
- trips through Australia or the Pacific where dates may be easy to confuse; and
- any corrected or cancelled travel.
What to do if something appears wrong
The presence self-check relies on INZ data. If an arrival or departure record appears missing or incorrect, follow INZ's process to request a correction or contact the agency before submitting a citizenship application. This independent website cannot view or change official records.
Keep a clean travel table
For each trip, record the date you departed New Zealand and the date you returned. This calculator treats departure as the first day outside New Zealand and return as the first day back. Keep the source document beside the table so you can explain where each date came from.
Protect your personal information
Travel records can contain identifiers and detailed movement history. Store them securely. Do not email passport scans, client numbers or full records to this website. The calculator runs locally in your browser and needs only dates.
Try your dates
See the five-year look-back
Use the calculator to estimate the first date that appears to meet the standard numerical presence test.