A Waikato woman arrested over a suspected fraud involving visa applications for Filipinos seeking work in the dairy industry has appeared in court.

Migrants starting businesses in New Zealand can surpass initial hurdles around business nuances and have success being self-employed.

New Zealand has had a record net gain in migrants of 61,200 in the September year, driven by more Kiwis coming home and fewer leaving for Australia.

A New Zealand Labour MP is waiting on Christmas Island to hear if he'll be granted access to an Australian detention centre where Kiwis are being held.

Disabled man had no friends or family here and landed with only $200 and a voucher for a week's accommodation.

Immigration New Zealand confirmed yesterday that the sex workers, including one who had passed a secret note to a client seeking help, were on temporary visas.

Kiwi tells of cruise ship helping refugees in rubber dinghy.

In recent years, newly sworn-in Australian prime ministers have taken to scurrying across the Tasman to meet their New Zealand counterpart as the concluding rite of passage.

Star builder Martin Laidlaw has been barred from site and is facing deportation after Immigration New Zealand rejected his visa application.

Kiwis held in Australian detention centres without any indication of when they will be deported have been left frustrated and confused.

A former Immigration Minister says he would let Chris Brown into the country because it would cause no obvious harm.

Donna Mojab asks, could all those kind-hearted Austrians and Germans, who clap and cheer refugees, actually be welcoming terrorists to Europe? What a great plan by ISIS, right? No, not right.

Editorial: No government likes to have its immigration decisions made by others But many governments are being led by their better citizens in this crisis. New Zealand's is one of them.

The huge inflow of refugees into Europe is a direct challenge to the concept of nation states with defined borders able to exert control over who enters these borders, writes Peter Lyons.

Migration can be a double-edged sword, says investment adviser Mark Lister.

Kiribati family who claimed they were climate change refugees say they won't be welcomed home.

New Zealand's annual net migration rose to a record in August as Indian and Chinese students continued to flock to courses offered by local educational institutions.

A Kiribati family who claimed to be the world's first refugees from climate change will have to leave their rented house in West Auckland after the father was detained this week.

Today, for millions of people, the difference between living in war or peace, between prosperity and starvation, between self-determination and oppression, are determined purely by geography and borders.

New Zealand must avoid putting off high net-worth investors from coming here, says Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce.

Facing an unstaunchable flood of migrants and refugees, Germany yesterday said it was reaching breaking point and would enact emergency controls.

Tony Bishop has added his voice to calls for wealthy investor migrants to be required to channel a portion of their funds into productive investments.

The truth is that there is no orderly queue that provides resettlement for refugees, writes Murdoch Stephens. "If a queue system existed it would take us 191 years to get to the end of the queue."

Money from wealthy migrants is going to waste - sitting in back accounts and bonds, not helping New Zealand grow as it could.

Don't go. It is illegal for you to go," the Serbian police tell us. "You are not refugees."

Bob Geldof is taking four families. Finland's PM is opening up his holiday home. When it comes to the refugee crises, there are ironies and glimpses of humour, writes Rodney Hide.

Raybon Kan writes: Everyone loves a list. Even Schindler had one. So, here are the top five worst reasons against doubling the refugee quota.

While eastern Europe's new European Union member states are being asked to absorb the fewest, they are putting up the fiercest resistance to plans to spread the refugees more evenly across the 28-nation bloc.

The compassion of the crowd can make you feel heartless for reserving comment until a reasonable question has been answered.