Gill Bonnett

A secret tightening up of visa criteria is under way, according to an immigration advisers' group, but Immigration New Zealand says there's has been no change to its assessments.

Policing rogue employers and education providers is a top priority for new immigration minister Iain Lees-Galloway.

Stressed immigration officials have been offered counselling and the tribunal is pleading for more staff as appeals against deportations jump by more than half.

A teacher who worked to build a school for girls in Afghanistan has been granted asylum in New Zealand after she and her family received death threats.

Two families from Tuvalu have had their cases to be recognised as climate change refugees rejected.

Elderly people are facing deportation because they have been caught out by a change in immigration rules.

A trans woman from the UK has been granted residence on humanitarian grounds after suffering years of abuse and violence in Britain.

A tribunal has dismissed a claim that a man who has lived in Australia since he was four was a gang member.

A drug importer who claimed to be a refugee has been caught in a lie after investigators found a letter from his father, who he claimed had been executed by Iranian authorities. Audio

A man at the centre of a long-running immigration case - which includes three asylum appeals and two failed residence bids - has been granted a work visa.

A couple who fled to New Zealand after the wife's family threatened to burn her alive and kept her prisoner for more than a year have been sent back to India.

The number of successful claims has doubled since 2007, with many coming from China, according to new figures.

A ministry official was worried about the public perception "if word gets out'' that people under a deportation order can sponsor others for immigration, documents reveal.

Kelvin Williams has been freed from custody after the Appeal Court ruled his murder conviction two decades ago was a miscarriage of justice.

Work visas were approved for a record 226,000 people in the last financial year, and according to the government the number will keep rising.

Teachers are warning funding has not kept up with the number of children needing help to speak English, which has increased by more than 50 percent in the last decade.

The agency's new complaints procedure will be able to rule on poor grammar and tasteless office decor but not unfairness in visa decision-making, a lawyer says.

Proposed visa changes will strip workers' rights for their children and could leave a cohort of dislocated young men with no family support, immigration advisers say.

Immigration New Zealand closed a loophole which it says immigrants were exploiting to bring children who are sick, disabled or have special needs into the country.

A woman who fled Jordan, claiming that her mother-in-law hit her with a stick in an attempt to cause a miscarriage, has been granted refugee status.

A serial sex offender whose case led to Immigration NZ being temporarily stripped of the power to deport resident migrants has had his parole conditions tightened.

Ady Korpos was a few days away from selling his San Remo apartment in Kohimarama when the mudslide hit. Audio

A baby who was issued with a deportation notice has won a year's reprieve to remain with her adopted family in New Zealand.

A man jailed for raping a sleeping woman at a party and who has a conviction for passport fraud has won his appeal against deportation to India.

Immigration New Zealand has warned staff to remember their obligations when they are pressured or coerced while handling visa applications.