Stories by Gill Bonnett

A Somali family who arrived in the country on fake passports and embarked on an asylum fraud have won a battle against deportation.

A man fears racial bias has thwarted his Indian parents' application to move to this country.

Elderly overseas parents desperate to join their children in New Zealand say the government is sweeping their plight under the carpet after failing to announce what it will do about the residence…

Immigration New Zealand has scrapped work to prioritise deportations using data modeling to predict what harm immigrants might cause.

The schoolboy's father says his son "had a magical way of brightening up your day and always making you feel special and important to him".

The number of visa applications referred to Immigration New Zealand's profiling branch has fallen by nearly three-quarters since it was launched.

A farm near Christchurch has been fined for exploiting workers it claimed were volunteers.

A husband and wife who committed immigration fraud after he fathered twins with another woman have won their appeal against deportation.

A wave of foreign prostitutes working in breach of their visas is taking work from locals, sex workers say.

An immigration adviser says new figures are at odds with official assurances Indian visa applicants are not being targeted by immigration officials.

More than half of some Bank of China clients who applied for a tourist visa had it approved within one business day in the past two years, after an agreement to fast-track them.

It's almost impossible to crack down on foreigners working illegally in the sex industry because they have to be caught in the act, immigration authorities say.

Overstayers could be on a fast track to deportation if they belong to a demographic group identified as being a burden on the country. Audio

Immigration agents have been caught illegally rubber-stamping bulk applications made by unlicenced advisers overseas.

A New Zealand man says he has run out of options as he battles Immigration officials to be reunited with his wife and child.

Immigrants filling trade and technical jobs are outnumbering those taking professional roles for the first time on record.

Hundreds of Tongans could face being sent back to their cyclone-ravaged country before it has recovered from the storm's devastation, an immigration lawyer says.

ICT workers who were refused residence visas after being classed as call centre operators say further delays to their cases are draining their hopes and causing mental anguish.

A couple have been told they can remain in New Zealand because of the post-traumatic stress disorder they suffered in the Nepal earthquake.

An immigration adviser who deceived clients and threatened one with repercussions for complaining, has been suspended and ordered to pay compensation.

Hundreds of commission-based workers are missing out on residence visas under new minimum income criteria, a phone salesman originally from Iran says.

Four church and community groups have been selected to sponsor refugees and help them settle in New Zealand. Audio

Immigration New Zealand is reviewing its guidelines on residence visas for ICT professionals after accepting its assessments were flawed.

An Auckland woman and her Indian husband say they are fighting immigration officials so they can be a family again.

Eighty-three-year-old Norah Cheetham is stranded in England because of the freeze, and there are thousands of others affected, the woman's daughter says.