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Cook Island, Niue and Tokelau clients

Clients born in the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau are New Zealand citizens by birth (if they meet the criteria for New Zealand citizenship by birth). Generally they will travel to New Zealand on a New Zealand passport.

To qualify for social housing, clients born in the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau must be ordinarily resident in New Zealand.

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A person can be a New Zealand citizen by either:

For New Zealand citizenship, New Zealand includes the self-governing states of:

Citizenship is granted by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Note people born in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, or Tokelau may not automatically be New Zealand citizens. To be considered a New Zealand citizen from birth, a person born on or after 1 January 2006 must have: