Migrant parents feel invisible after being ignored in new rules

Parents waiting more than five years for news on a suspended residence programme say they feel invisible after being left out of a major immigration announcement. The Government launched a widespread residence reprieve for migrant workers a fortnight ago Dr Ana Popovska Stojanovska is one of almost a thousand parents of resident or citizen migrants living in New Zealand since before the pandemic, who have applied for the parent category of residence. She told our immigration reporter Gill Bonnett that she was thankful to not be in her home country, which has the third worst death rate for Covid in the world, but feels ignored and sidelined here