Returning and Recommencing Students - evidence requirements
You may be required to provide documentary evidence if you have changed your name or residency status or if you have studied somewhere else since last at Otago.
Students who have been enrolled at the University of Otago in 2011 or earlier who register for undergraduate programmes subject to the entry pathway system will be considered for re-enrolment in two categories:
- Returning students: Students who have been enrolled at the University of Otago in 2010 or 2011.
- Recommencing students: Students who were last enrolled at the University of Otago in 2009 or earlier.
Note: Any documents supplied must be in English or be accompanied by an English translation.
If you have changed your name
If the name on the National Student Index, your birth certificate, passport or citizenship certificate differs from your current name, or the name in which you gained any qualifications relevant to your admission, you must also provide an original or a witnessed copy of one or more of the following as formal evidence of each change:
- marriage or civil union certificate
- certificate of dissolution of marriage or civil union
- deed poll
- statutory declaration issued by a Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages
If you are Māori you may send in a signed statement of your Whakapapa, countersigned by a Kaumatua, as evidence of name changes.
Note: Any document containing a change of name must include both your previous name and the new name.
If you have changed your residency status
If you are re-enrolling and have changed your residency status since you were last enrolled, you must provide a witnessed copy of one of the following:
- your amended passport
- your citizenship certificate
If you do not hold the status of a domestic student you must have a student permit to enrol in a course that lasts for longer than three months taken in a New Zealand government-funded institution. If you are in the country on the basis of a work visa you must apply for a variation to your visa to permit you to enrol.
Last enrolled prior to 1990
If you first enrolled at Otago before 1990, but have not re-enrolled since 2002, you may also be required to provide the same evidence as for a first year student.
If you have studied somewhere else since last at Otago
At another university
If you have attended another university since last being enrolled at Otago, you will need to provide an academic transcript showing study undertaken at the other university. This applies even if you are not seeking credit on the basis of this study.
At a non-university tertiary institution
If you are a recommencing student who has attended a non-university tertiary institution since last being enrolled at Otago, you will need to provide an academic transcript showing study undertaken at the other institution. This applies even if you are not seeking credit on the basis of this study.
