Let S = (a 1, …, a m ; b 1, …, b n ), where a 1, …, a m and b 1, …, b n are two nonincreasing sequences of nonnegative integers. The pair S = (a 1, …, a m ; b 1, …, b n ) is said to be a bigraphic pair if there is a simple bipartite graph G = (X ∪ Y, E) such that a 1, …, a m and b 1, …, b n are the degrees of the vertices in X and Y, respectively. Let Z 3 be the cyclic group of order 3. Define σ(Z 3, m, n) to be the minimum integer k such that every bigraphic pair S = (a 1, …, a m ; b 1, …, b n ) with a m , b n ≥ 2 and σ(S) = a 1 + ⋯ + a m ≥ k has a Z 3-connected realization. For n = m, Yin [Discrete Math., 339, 2018—2026 (2016)] recently determined the values of σ(Z 3, m, m) for m ≥ 4. In this paper, we completely determine the values of σ(Z 3, m, n) for m ≥ n ≥ 4.