Immigration

Immigration rules should be changed so employers hire New Zealanders instead of recruiting from overseas, Labour leader Andrew Little says.

Partners in arranged marriages must have physically met to be eligible for a visa according to new guidelines from Immigration New Zealand.

Labour is calling for a review of the Investor Plus immigration scheme amid a police investigation into whether two Americans used it to launder illegal funds.

A Fijian man who was two days too old to apply for residence has been told no exception can be made to allow his application.

High overall immigration figures are masking whether the government's new policy of incentives for regional migration is working, a researcher says.

New Zealand has begun a deportation crackdown on people who haven't committed a crime just as it is criticising Australia of doing, an immigration lawyer says.

Immigration officials who thwarted a French woman's attempt to stay in the country with her tetraplegic partner have had a change of heart.

A New Zealander being held in an Australian detention centre says the authorities made it difficult for him to see his terminally ill wife before she died this week.

A former Rebels bikie boss jailed for trafficking methamphetamine is fighting deportation to New Zealand.

Experience confirms two recent reports showing huge benefits from the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme to employers and workers, the Rural Contractors Association says.

Dozens of Pasifika families are unfairly deported each year after putting their trust in rogue advisers, an immigration lawyer says.

Fourteen refugees have drowned in another boat sinking as European Union and African leaders meet to discuss measures to stem the flow of people into Europe.