New Zealand's monthly inbound migration rose to a four-year high in June as more kiwis stayed at home amid the dwindling attraction of Australia's slowing economy.

A Chinese New Zealander who entered China illegally to see his dying parents says he was chained and tortured for five days before being deported.

NZ First celebrates its 20th anniversary this month but a former MP of the party believes it'll self-destruct when its leader Winston Peters decides to leave.

Australian authorities yesterday gave up the search for survivors of yet another asylum boat tragedy, with one young child dead and eight people missing.

A couple embroiled in a battle with Immigration to prove their love is real are moving to the South Island to keep their dream of remaining in the country alive.

A management restructure at Immigration New Zealand will result in 50 branch and regional managerial positions being disestablished.

Three Sri Lankan sisters face deportation after seven years building lives in New Zealand.

An American overstayer has been banned from sailing from the Bay of Islands for the Pacific Islands because his yacht is unsafe.

An immigration adviser has been stripped of her licence and ordered to pay more than $20,000 after what amounted to "systematic exploitation of a vulnerable migrant".

Deporting immigrants who breached their visa conditions cost New Zealand taxpayers $1.7 million in the past year.

A 7-year-old Cambodian girl received an emotional welcome from her Kiwi family in Auckland yesterday after they were reunited for the first time in New Zealand since 2009.

Recent media coverage suggests that the main issue for returning expats, or repats, is re-entry culture shock, writes David Ellis. It is not.

An adopted 7-year-old girl from Cambodia will be reunited with her Kiwi family after Immigration NZ reversed an earlier ban preventing her from entering NZ.

We should all welcome the Government's announcement it will expand the protections for migrants by introducing a new offence of exploitation of migrants lawfully allowed to work in New Zealand, and with tough penalties.

A secretly-filmed video has recorded a people smuggler admitting to Indonesian police protection of the trade in boat people sailing to Australia.

More Australians are coming to New Zealand and fewer Kiwis are crossing the Tasman in the latest sign that the grass may not be greener across the Ditch.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has compared NZ to an Orwellian state because he feels he's being censored over his Chinese immigration comments.

Visitor arrivals in May were up 9 per cent from the same month last year, Statistics New Zealand said today.

NZ has just passed a law that mirrors what is probably the most disastrous Australian policy failure of the past 20 years, writes Tracey Barnett. Mandatory detention of asylum seekers arriving by boat.

A private college in central Auckland, Hygiene College, is being probed for allegedly offering fake job offers to international students.

Migrant employers who exploit foreign workers could face deportation under a law change proposed by Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse.

Hussain Sayed's daughters were a long way from home as they ran with a dozen other youngsters across the vast lawns of Government House in Auckland yesterday.

Controversial legislation which would allow boat people to be detained for up to six months was expected to pass another hurdle last night.

Australia's parliamentary human rights watchdog has expressed concerns over the exclusion of expatriate New Zealanders from the new national disability insurance scheme, despite having to help fund it.

Twenty-five women from 21 countries became New Zealand citizens at Government House in Wellington yesterday.

An immigration adviser fined after the industry's watchdog determined he ripped off a vulnerable woman says he will not pay up and wants the decision overturned.

Work visa holders moonlighting in part-time sex work are being denied entry to New Zealand.