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Investor

The aim of the Investor category is to encourage migrants who will be able to invest in the New Zealand economy. Investment must be active or semi-active (for example having money in a bank account will not be sufficient, nor will investment in residential property development). The Investor category is a new Visa that comes into effect in November 2007. There are three types:

1. Global investors - have top priority. This is for high value investor investing $20m (a minimum of $5m must be invested actively)
2. Professional investors - are the second priority. Applicants must be investing at least $10m (a minimum of $2m actively)
3. General Active investors - This is for investors investing at least $2.5m. Applicants will be selected through a points system.

The New Zealand government has set the maximum number of 1000 Visas per annum with the Global and Professional investors being selected first and the remaining places being allocated amongst the General Active Investors with the most points.