APEC Business Travel Card

In keeping with its role championing regional trade liberalisation, the APEC Business Travel Card is an excellent example of the way in which APEC works at a functional level to help promote individual business relationships.

Business people who are frequent business travellers around the Asia-Pacific region, might like to consider applying for an APEC Business Travel Card and taking advantage of some of the considerable benefits they offer.

It is a unique initiative that cuts through the red-tape of business travel and gives frequent business travellers from participating APEC members streamlined, pre-cleared access into most parts of the APEC community.

Key features of the APEC Business Travel Card include:

• No requirement to apply for visa or entry permits
• Express immigration clearance through special APEC lanes on arrival and departure at major international airports;
• Multiple entry to participating economies for a stay of up to 90 days on each visit.
  

APEC Business Travel Cards are available to all business people engaged in trade and investment activities who:

• Are passport holders from participating economies;
• Travel frequently to conduct business activities in participating APEC economies;
• Have a clear criminal record.

To find out more information and to obtain an application form visit Immigration New Zealand [external link]

For further information about the APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) card can also be found on the APEC Business Mobility Group’s website [external link]

Participating APEC members are: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, United States and Vietnam.

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