Immigration

An agent offering migrant employment and visa services has been accused of using a vulnerable migrant worker's details to fraudulently obtain more than $17,000 in benefits.

The latest migration statistics are "quite phenomenal", a recruitment agency director says. Audio

Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in his first major policy announcement.

A group representing migrant workers has described changes to visa rules as "heart-wrenching" and "insensitive".

An Auckland family says they are heartbroken their auntie, a carer for her disabled brother, is being told to leave the country. Audio

An immigration advisor says if Immigration New Zealand is only going to start to work on the visa next year, people may even be lucky to see it being introduced next year.

The group of nations, which exchanges millions of traveller details, should be subject to greater oversight, opposition MPs say.

A Kiwi-born woman has been booted out of Australia after she forged medical letters claiming her locked-up partner had various cancers.

A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups are suing the Biden administration over President Joe Biden's recent directive that effectively halts asylum claims at the southern border.

The highest number of departures ever has been recorded and there's a warning from economists.

Families are fed up with delays and a lottery to allow their overseas parents to join them permanently.

The current median wait time was 29 days for standard passport applications and three days for urgent applications.

It effectively reneges on a commitment Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made to the government of New Zealand in 2022.

But Cabinet chose to retain the current settings, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says.

US President Joe Biden has ordered a halt to asylum processing at the border with Mexico when illegal entries reach a threshold deemed excessive.