'Hurt and confused': Couple's shock as visa blocked
It follows the announcement of a one-off resident visa for up to 165,000 migrants.
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INZ says a limited number of staff processing mail in Auckland.
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Teachers feel at risk because they have to face unvaccinated children without masks.
Immigration move 'most significant in decades'
It will see 165,000 people stuck here through the pandemic get fast-track residency visas.
Residency pathway 'welcome' for nursing workforce, but more Kiwi talent needed
'We need to grow our own and encourage more people to go into nursing.'
Focus: Kris Faafoi announces residence pathway for migrant workers
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi gives details on new one-off residence pathway visas that will be offered to the roughly 165,000 migrant workers and their families. Video / Pool
Visa announcement offers hope to Wellington chef who hasn't seen her 9yo daughter for three years
Raj has only spoken to her family on the phone – but hopes they can soon be reunited.
Young migrant GP who quit New Zealand could return under new one-off residency pathway
Dr Harding Richards left New Zealand in June after a year in the stalled residency queue.
MIQ should include a priority queue, says legal expert
'Inequality and unfairness' aspects of MIQ re-entry could be challenged in court.
165,000 migrant workers stranded in NZ due to Covid offered visas
"It will be absolutely life-changing, and well overdue."
Govt set to crack into stalled residency applications
Tens of thousands of crucial workers have been stuck in residency limbo for 18 months.
Covid-19: What needs to happen to regain global mobility again
Labour migration is important and 'needs to be recommenced'.
Most NZ residency applications halted in upper alert levels
NZ's main routes to residency stalled because of paper-based, Auckland-bound system.
'Unwelcome' nurses leaving NZ over immigration rules
Nurses are leaving New Zealand because of restrictive immigration conditions.
Skilled civil engineer and 'critical worker' on housing development one of 11,000 in stalled residency queue
A critical worker on an approved government project is unble to make headway on residency.
Opinion | NZ shouldn't have tried to deport terrorist
OPINION: Jennifer Foster writes NZ shouldn't have tried to deport the LynnMall terrorist.
Emails reveal residency pleas of rural GP, while convicted criminals granted stay
A rural community is feeling the loss of a young GP, who left after residency delays.
Life in limbo no more: South African family ditch Kiwi dream
Lower crime rates and more educational opportunities first attracted family to our shores.
Economy Hub: Recovery position - Robertson on beating Delta and the path to reopening
Finance Minister defends use of Covid response funds and says he has more than enough.
Special investigation: Inside mall terrorist's 10 years to meltdown - and how he could have been stopped
Samsudeen's path to terrorism ... and claims he could have been stopped.
Economy Hub: Andrew Bayly - 'Delta virus has changed the game altogether'
NZ needs to super-charge business and grow its way out of debt says National's money man.
Vaccinated RSE workers to skip MIQ, but Hawke's Bay apple growers say it's not enough
Vaccinated seasonal workers from Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu will begin arriving next month.
Arrivals 'a serious threat' to another Delta outbreak
Grounded Kiwis petition calls for more managed isolation and quarantine, experts say no.
Auckland professor says 'specific nation-building' course to get citizenship could counter terrorism
Sikhs asked to wear their kirpan daggers inside their clothes, away from public visibility
Auckland mall terrorist forged medical documents, boasted about duping immigration officials
'He was trying to say he was ripping off the system. I think he was bragging.'
Auckland mall terrorist attack: Discussions underway with family about burial of offender
Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead on Friday after stabbing five people.
Revealed: The charges dismissed against the lone wolf terrorist and the judge's reasons
Two charges were dismissed against the terrorist last year by a High Court judge.
Terrorist's deportation attempt delayed while he faced criminal charges
The latest from the Government on the West Auckland terror attack.
Surgeons recover knife tip from terror-attack victim, three still critical but stable
Further details emerge of injuries sustained by Friday's terror attack victims.
Terrorist's family speaks: 'We do not know what to do, we are shaken'
The family of the man behind a terror attack at an Auckland supermarket have spoken
Hasta la visa: Kiwi farm workers head back offshore
Immigration policy is driving New Zealand workers to take up jobs in Canada.
'Everyone was puzzled': MIQ worker vaccinated in China left in limbo
Thomas Wan received two Sinopharm doses in China, should he be vaccinated again?
'Deleted!' Immigration NZ's removed post appears to be 'new policy'
Information has since been taken down. INZ has refused to confirm or deny uploaded points.
Afghanistan falls: Last-ditch NZ legal action by trapped Afghans fails
Judge accepts "lives are at risk" but nothing could be done by courts.