Stories by Gill Bonnett

Analysis - The government has announced 10,000 working holiday-makers and seasonal staff can get visa extensions, but some say the numbers are a drop in the ocean and come too late, Gill Bonnett write…

New documents show tensions arose between government departments over who should get border exemptions and how the dairy industry lost out in favour of space and film projects.

Immigration New Zealand shed more than 300 jobs overseas as it shut branches in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but recruitment was put on hold due to financial constraints.

Employers with migrant staff will need to complete a job check before they or their workers can apply for a visa, in the biggest change to work visas in a generation.

The government has spent $112,000 to repatriate migrants who could not afford plane tickets to fly back to their home countries, Budget documents show.

Many employers have had to let their post-study work visa holders go - or have kept their job open, but some cannot work remotely.

A staff member at the New Zealand High Commission in New Delhi has died of Covid-19.

Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi will be making the case for border policy changes during a speech later today.

New Zealand citizens stranded in India should be urgently evacuated by the government because their lives are in serious danger, according to an NGO.

Almost one in eight overseas workers approved to enter New Zealand since last June have been cast and crews of films, television and stage shows.

The Green Party's Pacific people spokesperson Teanau Tuiono has called for the government to apologise for the Dawn Raids - and the Greens want amnesty for overstayers and residence for temporary…

A British doctor says he is set to leave New Zealand because he cannot apply for residence.

The founder of a migrant rights group says an immigration deadlock has galvanised immigrants into action.

The chief ombudsman has told Immigration to apologise for an unofficial strategy of cherry-picking highly-paid residence applications amid growing delays in visa processing.

The government will make an announcement soon on when it will restart the process for skilled migrants to become residents, it says. A suspension review was expected at the end of March.

A man who launched a fatal attack on an Auckland party-goer will be deported to Samoa when he is released from prison.

An investigation into 10 unlawful Chinese workers should also probe whether agents and corrupt officials helped them secure visas, an immigration lawyer says.

Passengers arriving in Auckland on three flights today have not picked up their luggage at the airport, under a trial which sees bags taken directly to managed isolation hotels.

Families split by the border closure say news that spare places in managed isolation could be used to reunite them with their partners and children is exciting.

Hundreds of managed isolation vouchers have come free for April, and authorities are urging travellers to snap them up.

An appeal by convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubek against his deportation will be heard in July.

International graduates are asking the government to remember its promise about allowing migrants who used to live in New Zealand to return.

A migrant who was refused government support when he lost his job says unjustified rejections and delays are being used to keep benefit-application numbers low.

A Queen tribute act is the latest entertainment crew to gain border exceptions as critical workers and the National Party says it's a "kick in the guts" for families separated from loved ones.

A couple who faced deportation asked Oranga Tamariki about finding adoptive parents for their daughters so the pre-schoolers could stay in New Zealand.