The asylum-seekers who were shipwrecked after attempting to reach New Zealand have apparently called on the Government to help.

A Kiwi's plan to return to New Zealand to raise his family is in limbo after Immigration New Zealand granted permanent residency to only one of his young sons.

Employers may soon find that the key skill/capability they are recruiting for is Cultural Intelligence or CQ, and not just IQ and EQ, writes Mai Chen.

National has been asked to join other parties in Parliament and support an increase in the refugee quota.

An immigrant family faces being torn apart after its patriarch was convicted for drug smuggling.

A boat of asylum seekers had a credible chance of reaching NZ - but the Government will not say what options were being considered if that had happened.

The survivor of a camp recounts her 25 terrifying days late last year near the southern Thai town of Padang Besar, where she saw people die every two or three days.

A transgender Kiwi officially recognised as a woman has found love and will get married today.

Migration rose to a new annual record in April, as more students arrived from India and China and fewer locals left.

A call from NZ First leader Winston Peters to increase the number of refugees who can settle here has been echoed by Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

The Northland MP, who is well known for his opposition to current immigration levels, believes New Zealand’s refugee quote should be increased by at least a third.

Chinese tourists are now more likely to be 'free independent travellers' rather than organised into package tours.

A former border control officer and his associate have been charged with corruption and bribery.

Migrants stranded at sea for four months resorted to stabbing, hanging each other and throwing passengers overboard in a desperate struggle for the last remaining food.

If visitor numbers from China continue at current rates, we'll be earning more tourist dollars from the Chinese than the Australians.

An illegal immigrant who paid a NZ couple $8000 for their identities to get false passports has been deported.

Changes to immigration rules to help meet demand for the 5000 more construction workers needed to rebuild Canterbury have been largely welcomed by a workers’ union.

At the Istanbul Peace Summit last month, Prime Minister John Key rejected Turkish pleas for others to share the burden of the flood of refugees from the Iraqi-Syria bloodbath next door.

An extradition hearing has been held at the Auckland District Court for a man accused of a cold case killing in Switzerland.

Why should Aucklanders pay a rates hike 9 times greater than inflation because the Govt could not or would not control an unprecedented net migration surge?

A new study has found Chinese migrants use NZ as a stepping stone to another country.

With our currency effectively at parity with the Australian dollar and house prices booming everything must be great in the "rockstar" New Zealand economy, right?

Distressed members of New Zealand's African community have rallied at Parliament to protest violence against immigrants in South Africa.

Autistic boy Tyrone Sevilla was on the brink of being deported from Australia, until his 11-year-old mate stepped in.

The country had a net gain of 56,275 migrants in the year through March, 75 per cent higher than the 31,914 gain in the year earlier period.

Up to 30,000 people could drown in the Mediterranean this year unless urgent action is taken to curb trafficking and rescue stricken boats, experts warned yesterday.

A lawyer who illegally acted as an immigration advisor has had two-and-a-half months tacked onto his record jail term.

I am in England on the Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference with 100 senior leaders from 22 countries around the Commonwealth.