A systematic policy of exclusion The reason New Zealanders are risking their health in this way is because their overseas partners fail to meet INZ’s ‘living together’ test. That is, although a couple may have been married for months or even years, have exchanged thousands of texts and met hundreds of times over video calls, they have not lived together long enough to satisfy INZ requirements. In fact, just living together won’t meet INZ’s requirements: there has to be a paper trail of evidence. This evidence can include, but is not limited to:
joint ownership of residential property