A Waikato woman was arrested in October and accused of creating fake CVs so that Filipinos could work in New Zealand.

COMMENT: We've heard it before but from the opposite side of the political spectrum. But now it seems the sentiment's rubbed off.

Donald Trump proposed a new ideological test for all Muslim immigrants and visitors to this country, allowing entry only to "those who support our values."

Immigration NZ is changing its practices following the case of the 18-year-old French au pair who was locked in a Queenstown police cell while waiting to be deported.

COMMENT: James Law, chief executive of James Law Realty, responds to the Chinese real estate agent's opinion piece in the Herald.

New Zealand First is denying claims by Chinese New Zealand leaders that an op-ed slamming Chinese immigration was actually a PR stunt by the party.

COMMENT: With so much drama on the international political stage this year, the New Zealand political scene has struggled for attention.

COMMENT: The week has provided plenty to pique an observer's interest.

Refugees and migrants who have not eaten for a day or more bed down on blankets and scraps of cardboard in a small park near Lake Como in Italy.

Nearly 53,000 migrants indicated on their arrival cards they intended to settle in Auckland in the year to June.

Melania Trump has taken to Twitter to slam claims that she flouted immigration laws in her effort to become an American citizen.

Doubling the annual refugee quota would have cost $20.6 million more a year in the long-run than the option ultimately taken to raise it from 750 to 1000, according to Government estimates.

The detention of Kiwis living in Australia could be part of a push to "purify" the country, Labour's Corrections spokesman Kelvin Davis says.

A Fijian man's "lifetime of immigration fraud" has finally caught up with him.

Ray White New Zealand says a new move into China isn't designed to flog our homes to foreigners.

One of the region's biggest real estate firms is expanding its reach to get to more Chinese buyers.

Booming migration extended its run of posting new records in June, though economists say it may have peaked.

Opposition parties say dire warning from ANZ chief executive about overheated house prices shows the market is in crisis.

COMMENT: Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" that deserves to shatter business complacency on housing.

Everyone seems to want to move to New Zealand, or is at least looking into the possibility.

More Australians are moving here than New Zealanders are going there and we're luring their families to happiness in the Canterbury

COMMENT: Candidates vying to replace the PM should keep in mind doing exactly what the voters said might not be wise.

The Reserve Bank has told the Government to review immigration policy in a bid to stem rising house prices.

Congolese community hopes to raise awareness and action over violence in homeland.

COMMENT: The debate about migrant numbers in New Zealand is more complicated than people would have us believe.

Over the space of a week, Kaitangata has gone from being little known outside Otago to an unlikely international media darling.

World media have got the wrong end of the stick - forcing Kaitangata to remind potential new residents they'll have to pay to move south.

COMMENT: New Zealand's economic history matches the line chart for our net migration flow through the years, writes Liam Dann.

National is preparing for immigration to become a major election issue.

WATCH: New Zealand's migration gain per capita is currently running nearly three times as high as the UK.