Medical staff treating asylum seekers on Nauru were told to withhold details of psychological effects of living in detention from mental health reports, a psychiatrist claims.

More than once, the Prime Minister has warned that, at some time, a boatload of desperate people will wash up on our shores.

Mother speaks out as Immigration NZ withhold permanent residency from sick child of NZ citizen.

A Kiwi's plan to return to New Zealand to raise his family is in limbo after Immigration New Zealand granted permanent residency to only one of his young sons.

The asylum-seekers who were shipwrecked after attempting to reach New Zealand have apparently called on the Government to help.

National has been asked to join other parties in Parliament and support an increase in the refugee quota.

Employers may soon find that the key skill/capability they are recruiting for is Cultural Intelligence or CQ, and not just IQ and EQ, writes Mai Chen.

An immigrant family faces being torn apart after its patriarch was convicted for drug smuggling.

A transgender Kiwi officially recognised as a woman has found love and will get married today.

More than one million foreigners living in Britain will be banned from voting in the EU referendum.

The net flow of people coming to live in New Zealand will peak next month at nearly five times the long-term average - adding more fuel to the Auckland housing market.

Migration rose to a new annual record in April, as more students arrived from India and China and fewer locals left.

A call from NZ First leader Winston Peters to increase the number of refugees who can settle here has been echoed by Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

The Northland MP, who is well known for his opposition to current immigration levels, believes New Zealand’s refugee quote should be increased by at least a third.

Chinese tourists are now more likely to be 'free independent travellers' rather than organised into package tours.

A former border control officer and his associate have been charged with corruption and bribery.

An illegal immigrant who paid a NZ couple $8000 for their identities to get false passports has been deported.

Growth in the number of tourists and international students coming to New Zealand will see the number of immigration officers boosted with $33 million of new spending.

Not all religions and their followers are equal in New Zealand, a Herald investigation into the state of faith has found.

Changes to immigration rules to help meet demand for the 5000 more construction workers needed to rebuild Canterbury have been largely welcomed by a workers’ union.

At the Istanbul Peace Summit last month, Prime Minister John Key rejected Turkish pleas for others to share the burden of the flood of refugees from the Iraqi-Syria bloodbath next door.

An extradition hearing has been held at the Auckland District Court for a man accused of a cold case killing in Switzerland.

Why should Aucklanders pay a rates hike 9 times greater than inflation because the Govt could not or would not control an unprecedented net migration surge?

A new study has found Chinese migrants use NZ as a stepping stone to another country.

With our currency effectively at parity with the Australian dollar and house prices booming everything must be great in the "rockstar" New Zealand economy, right?

Distressed members of New Zealand's African community have rallied at Parliament to protest violence against immigrants in South Africa.

Autistic boy Tyrone Sevilla was on the brink of being deported from Australia, until his 11-year-old mate stepped in.

The country had a net gain of 56,275 migrants in the year through March, 75 per cent higher than the 31,914 gain in the year earlier period.