Hannah and Michael Alcantara with Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick at the ceremony. Photo / Supplied
It was an "emotional affair" at Rotorua Lakes Council as community members received their Kiwi citizenship at a ceremony earlier this week.
Twenty-four people, originally from countries including the Philippines, England, Iceland, India, Fiji, the Netherlands and United States, became Kiwi citizens on Tuesday.
Malfroy Primary School used waiata
and haka to welcome all of the candidates.
Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick says, as always, this week's ceremony was quite an emotional affair.
She says it was made even more poignant by the situations many of the candidates' families are in back in their home countries as a result of Covid.
