New Zealand First-Time Adult Passport Application

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-04

The document was derived from a directly-read primary source: the full text of the official Form PAS310 (edition dated 31 January 2025), read page by page, corroborated by the live govt.nz and dia.services.govt.nz guidance pages. This gives it stronger direct-source grounding than the sibling nz/dia/passport-renewal-adult v1.0.0, whose applicant-field section relied on secondary corroboration because its own form PDF could not be retrieved. It remains draft, not verified, pending an independent second reviewer's field-by-field pass against a live session.

Why this gap existed

A per-jurisdiction × per-vertical catalog review (GOV-1051 research cycle, 2026-07-04) found that registry/nz/dia published only passport-renewal-adult and realme-verified-identity — no first-time application, unlike every other jurisdiction with a published passport document (US, GB, IE, AU, CA all have both a first-time application and a renewal). This document closes that gap. It was added directly at published in discovery/catalog.json, since no candidate entry for it existed beforehand.

Source examined

• Document (id, version): nz/dia/passport-application-first-adult / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand Passports (DIA)
• Primary source URL: https://www.govt.nz/browse/passports-citizenship-and-identity/get-or-renew-a-new-zealand-passport/apply-for-a-new-adult-passport/
• Official form id: PAS310 (Application for a New Zealand Passport — Adult; 31 January 2025 edition)
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-04
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

Access constraint and how it was worked around

passports.govt.nz again returned HTTP 403 to every direct/automated fetch attempted (both the live PDF URLs and the guidance pages), the same recurring gotcha recorded for nz/dia/passport-renewal-adult and nz/dia/realme-verified-identity (see [[gov-form-pdf-extraction]] in engineering memory). Unlike those two documents, this cycle located an exact Wayback Machine capture of the live PDF itself: the CDX API (web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=passports.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/19602/adult-new-v2.pdf) returned a 21 February 2025 snapshot of the same file served by the live site, confirmed by URL match. That snapshot (https://web.archive.org/web/20250221015729/https://www.passports.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/19602/adult-new-v2.pdf) was fetched directly (no block on web.archive.org via curl) and its full text extracted page-by-page with pdfjs-dist (the same tool used across this registry for CID/glyph-encoded and access-blocked PDFs). Every field, section number, and label cited in this schema's sourceRef values was read verbatim from that extraction, not inferred from prose summaries.

Two supporting pages were fetched directly (no block):

• govt.nz — "Apply for your first adult passport": eligibility (16+, NZ citizen), online vs. paper channel description, fee (NZD 247).
• dia.services.govt.nz — "Getting started": corroborates the online channel's field set (name, DOB, place of birth, gender, height, eye colour, contact details) and flags a first-time-applicant-specific extra: an online live camera identity check, distinct from the passport photo.

What was confirmed directly (verbatim, from PAS310's own text)

• Section 1 (personal details): surname, first/middle names, place and date of birth, gender (Male/Female/Gender X), height (cm), eye colour.
• Section 2 (entitlement): the four tick-box bases — born in NZ; born in Niue/Cook Islands/Tokelau (birth-certificate document required only for a first-time applicant); citizenship by grant or descent (certificate number, no document required); entitlement for another reason (supporting evidence required) — and the exact document requirements per basis, from the page-8 checklist table.
• Section 3 (names at birth): mother's name at the applicant's birth, mother's own maiden name, father's name at the applicant's birth.
• Section 4 (contact and delivery): home address fields, phone/email, and the delivery-address-if-different branch, including the PO-Box-vs-street distinction for international courier delivery.
• Section 10 (emergency contact) and Section 11 (applicant declaration): read verbatim, including the exact declaration text.
• Section 12 (witness/identity referee): passport number, years known (1+ required), name, date of birth, address, phone — and the eligibility declaration (16+, known 1+ year, not related/spouse/same-address, valid NZ passport), which independently corroborates, word for word, the BDM76 Identity Referee Declaration already read for the renewal sibling.
• Section 13 (fees/payment): the three service levels (standard, urgent — up to 3 working days, callout — by appointment) and the two paper-channel payment methods (card, EFTPOS in person). Fee amounts are intentionally not encoded as schema data (they change); see the processingSpeed / paymentMethod field descriptions.

What is out of scope for v1.0.0

• Name-change pathways (PAS310 sections 6 and 7 — marriage/civil union, statutory declaration/deed poll): gated out entirely via the nameChangedSinceBirth eligibility field. An applicant who has changed their name before their first passport must use the paper form's full sections 6/7 directly; the associated original-certificate documents are not modelled here.
• Statutory declaration edge case (PAS310 section 8): triggered only when someone else completes the form for an applicant with a disability/language difficulty, or when the applicant wears a head covering/headband for religious or medical reasons in their photo. Left unmodelled to keep this document scoped to the common case of a competent adult applicant completing their own application; flagged here rather than in the schema so a future revision can add it deliberately.
• The online channel's live camera identity check: dia.services.govt.nz states first-time online applicants need "a device with internet access and a camera" for an online identity check distinct from the passport photo. This document does not model that check as a field (its data shape was not independently observed, only described in prose); it is noted here as a known online-channel-only step.
• Address decomposition for third parties: the identity referee's and emergency contact's addresses are each collapsed into a single free-text field, unlike the applicant's own home/delivery addresses which mirror the source form's unit/street/suburb/city/postcode/country breakdown. This is a deliberate scope compression — an agent validating a third party's postal address does not need the same structural precision it needs for its own user's delivery address.
• Exact digital-photo pixel/byte specification: PAS310 (a paper form) only specifies print dimensions (35mm x 45mm) and paper-quality rules; the online channel's digital equivalent (as flagged for the renewal sibling) is not independently confirmed here either.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance this document to status: verified, a reviewer needs to independently re-derive the same Wayback capture (or a fresh, unblocked fetch of passports.govt.nz) and re-check every sourceRef against it field by field, confirm the current fee schedule and photo digital-file specification against the live site, and decide whether the statutory-declaration edge case and the online live-identity-check step should be folded into a future revision. Record the outcome here before setting status: verified.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months): passport applications are fee/policy-sensitive, and this record's reliance on a year-old Wayback snapshot (rather than a live fetch) for the form's own text argues for the shorter end of the cadence. Re-check the source, and confirm no newer PAS310 edition has been published, on or before that date and on any source.url change.