Stories by Gill Bonnett

A Pakistani man has won the first stage of a battle over a sick note which derailed his claim to be facing death at the hands of the Taliban.

Four out of every 10 appeals against Immigration New Zealand decisions have been upheld - leading immigration advisers to wonder if even more people may be missing out on residence because of flawed…

Farmers say they face having to send skilled workers home in 18 months time because of how their jobs are measured by immigration officials.

A widowed teacher with an autistic son is among those pleading for an answer on whether their parents will be allowed to join them under a shelved immigration programme.

After revelations that new resident numbers dropped significantly in the last financial year, the government has been accused of trying to make it harder to get residence visas. Audio

Workers' representatives say rogue employers are finding new ways to deter New Zealanders from applying for jobs so that they can recruit and exploit immigrants instead.

The police watchdog has found two officers were justified in shooting at Rollie Heke, who fired at them in Waikato.

A New Zealand-born man who has lived in Australia since he was a two-year-old has won a battle against deportation.

Foreign patients have cost the three Auckland district health boards $53m in bad debts in the past five years.

A Pakistani man involved in a people-smuggling operation in America, who gained residence in New Zealand, is the subject of a fraud investigation and is going to be deported.

An elderly woman who became a refugee after years of attacks by her husband in China faced deportation from New Zealand because she needed residential care.

Global charity Oxfam claims four pharmaceutical corporations are not paying $21 million in New Zealand taxes every year by stashing their profits in overseas havens.

A 72-year-old man who failed to tell immigration officials he had fathered a baby by donating sperm has lost a battle against deportation.

A tribunal said the millionaire couple's "wholly blameworthy" behaviour was outweighed by the hardship their four children would face if they were deported.

Some New Zealand dialysis patients have had their treatment rationed because of ineligible patients turning up for emergency care, according to government documents.

The Prime Minister has criticised Massey University's decision to withdraw an invitation for Don Brash to speak, calling it an "overreaction". Audio

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.