Stories by Gill Bonnett

A South African travel agency which organised a school trip to New Zealand say they are still waiting for a visa refund 18 months on.

More than 200 international medics and almost 1000 nurses are on work visas because invitations to apply for residence have been suspended - and the complications it causes is prompting some to head…

Immigration New Zealand has confirmed that people who applied for visitor visas to be reunited with their partners have had their applications cancelled.

Immigration New Zealand is considering whether to allow refunds for those who have applied for residency.

A military panel deciding whether a sailor sexually assaulted three colleagues while on tour of duty in Canada is hearing the trial judge's summing-up.

A Defence Force sailor is in a court martial on charges of sexually assaulting three colleagues while they were on an international deployment.

Capacity for MIQ has dropped by 900 spots as Christmas holidays near.

Migrants who have waited more than five years to have their parents settle in New Zealand are calling for the government to front up on when residence applications will restart.

A British doctor says she feels let down by a government which pleaded for healthcare workers but has now gone silent on how they can become residents.

Only 560 people qualified for a border exemption that the government announced in April to reunite split families.

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.