Thinking About Canada on a Kiwi Working Holiday Visa?

Here’s What You Need to Know About Travel Insurance

Each year, thousands of young New Zealanders pack up their lives and head to Canada under the International Experience Canada (IEC) programme. If you’re aged 18 to 35 and hold a New Zealand passport, you’re eligible for a two-year Canadian working holiday visa that opens the door to travelling, working and living in some of Canada’s most vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes. Whether you're pulling pints in Whistler, hitting the slopes, or exploring national parks between shifts, it's the kind of working holiday that can shape your life. According to Stats NZ, over 24,000 Kiwis are currently estimated to be living in Canada, with many participating in short-term work-based travel through visas like the IEC Working Holiday programme.

If this sounds like a bit of you – and why wouldn’t it - here’s what you really need to know. 

If you’re going to be packing up your life in Aotearoa 🇳🇿 and heading off to Canada for that epic 2-year working holiday visa for fresh powder, mountain peaks, insane road trips, and maybe a cheeky poutine or two. You’re about to live the dream.

Just don’t forget to pack the most important thing – your travel insurance.

The Canadian government won’t even let you through the gate unless you can prove you’ve got solid health cover.

They want the full works:

✅ Unlimited medical

✅ Unlimited repatriation

✅ The real deal.

At Travel Insurance Brokers (TIB), we work closely with specialist travel insurance providers to make sure you’re covered. Cover for the full 2 years. No stress. No gaps. No catch. 

Travel Insurance Brokers sources guaranteed cover for the full two years. One policy. No nasty gaps. No sudden surprises.

Here’s what you're getting:

✅ 2 years of rock-solid cover that meets Canadian visa requirements.

✅ Just one upfront premium of $2,200 for the full 24 months.

✅ That’s only $21.15 per week – which let’s be honest, is less than you’ll spend at Tim Hortons.

✅ Add snow sports cover (+$400) if you're planning to shred some slopes.

✅ Some pre-existing conditions already included – see T&Cs.

✅ Direct help from real humans who actually care.

✅ We liaise with insurers on your behalf, including helping out with claim queries.

Why choose Travel Insurance Brokers? Because we live this.

This isn’t our first rodeo.

We’re travel insurance nerds and proud of it. We know the ins and outs of the Canadian Working Holiday Visa…and we’re the experts in what you need to get there.

You’ll speak to a real person so if anything goes wrong, we’re in your corner—helping with the claims, chasing down the stress, and making sure you’re sorted.

You’ve only got until age 35 to make this happen.

So make it count!

Get the cover that works just as hard as you do.

👉 Check out Travel Insurance Brokers here: healthinsurance.co.nz👉 Get your 2-year Canadian visa insurance sorted TODAY.

**Canada’s wild. Stay safe. Be smart. Get covered with Travel Insurance Brokers.**

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