1700 parent visa applications lodged despite officials' warnings
Collectively parent visa applicants have paid $830,000 to INZ since the category closed
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest from NZ Immigration Service
Family running business in NZ for 6 years faces deportation
Business owners fear they will have to sell up and leave NZ with family.
Unruly tourists: What's fact and what's fiction?
How much of what the British tourists have said publicly can Kiwis believe?
Warning to illegal migrants: You may drown at sea
Overcrowded fishing boat left India on January 12, according to reports
Parent visas should be canned – former immigration minister
As soon as parents gain residency, their children 'piss off back to where they came from'.
Unruly travellers: Woman admits theft on third day of NZ holiday
The 26-year-old faces a charge of theft when she appears in the Hamilton District Court.
Rowdy UK travellers' deportation likely relates to two issues
Immigration New Zealand has served the group a deportation notice.
Unruly tourists: Woman, 26, in court today on theft charge
Controversial English tourists encounter Waikato Police for a second time in one day.
Holiday dream shattered after courier loses passport
A plan to visit family and holiday in Canada after a stint in India has gone awry.
Three Poles, a Russian sailor, a mystery West African ... and $130k buried at Bastion Point
The organised crime plot stretched across New Zealand, Europe, Ecuador and Venezuela.
Listen: Karel Sroubek's wife releases audio of angry phone call
Recording of a phone call between Karel Sroubek and his estranged wife has been released.
Govt unveils new proposed employer-led immigration rules
The Immigration Minister slammed the previous Government's "one-size-fits-all approach"
'Slave' labour: Man charged with human trafficking
"Vulnerable" Samoan workers caught up in illegal scheme since 1990s.
Sovereignty concerns: Ministers question UN migration agreement
UN agreement on migration criticised over whether might hinder NZ sovereignty
Former Afghan interpreter in coma after car crash
Afghani interpreter Azim Kazimi's family cannot afford to fly him to NZ for treatment.
Sroubek file back with Immigration NZ tomorrow
Sroubek lawyer expects a possible outcome in the case within a week
Lawyer casts doubt over possible Sroubek deportation
Immigration lawyer Marcus Beveridge says Sroubek's old offences can't be used again.
PM unhappy with deportation process and wants it improved
Jacinda Ardern has confidence in Immigration Minister and would not accept resignation
PM still has confidence in Immigration Minister
National says Minister should resign after he said he didn't read the whole Sroubek file
Karel Sroubek hits back: I'm not a burglar
Criminal at centre of notorious immigration case speaks.
Hosking: Lees-Galloway must go over catastrophic error
COMMENT: Media have done for the govt and Lees-Galloway what he couldn't or wouldn't.
Family 'forced into witness protection as a result of Karel Sroubek', says Bridges
An entire family were forced into witness protection over Sroubek, says Simon Bridges.
Czech drug-smuggler used false name for Kiwi wedding
Karel Sroubek enjoyed a fancy wedding under his false name.
Hosking: Naive Govt duped again on criminal's residency
COMMENT: Iain Lees-Galloway's had so much wool pulled over eyes you could call him Shrek.
PM backs minister over not deporting Czech drug smuggler
Karel Sroubek has been granted residency despite being convicted of importing MDMA
Turkish immigrant loses political persecution fight
Kerem Yuksel feared persecution because he was an opponent of Turkey's president.
INZ: Ex-sex workers can be granted NZ residency
Under current rules, no visas can be granted to foreign sex workers
Northcote brothel told to close
Around eight women are believed to have been working there as prostitutes.
Immigration NZ officials asking sex workers for a 'coffee and a chat'
INZ is taking a proactive approach to better understand the sex industry.
New system links police with Immigration NZ
Police can now identify foreign nationals more easily.
Auckland concrete truck drivers strike
About 10 drivers were expected to picket tomorrow outside Allied Concrete.
Christchurch restored as a refugee settlement location
About 20 Afghan and Eritrean quota refugees are expected in Christchurch next year.
Immigration advisers targeted in credit card fraud
Credit card used for purchases of beauty treatments, Uber eats and an expensive holiday
Immigration files stored in public foyer
The boxes were kept in a foyer outside Immigration NZ's office.