New Zealand → Australia
Moving to Australia from New Zealand
No visa application needed. New Zealand citizens receive the Special Category Visa (subclass 444) on arrival with full work rights from day one. Here is everything else to sort.
The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement makes this the easiest international move in the world on paper. The catch is everything the visa does not cover: transferring KiwiSaver into Australian super, what Centrelink you can and cannot access, converting your licence, and the four-year pathway to Australian citizenship that changed the game for Kiwis in 2023.
These guides cover the full move: banking and tax setup, Medicare enrolment, shipping across the Tasman, renting in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, and the SCV-to-PR-to-citizenship sequence step by step.