Angela Merkel has promised there will be "no tolerance" for violent anti-migrant protests that have gripped Germany in recent weeks.

A complaint made against Viveg Lingam Mudaliar has been partly upheld by the Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal.

A refugee community centre has backed Immigration New Zealand's position not to change the listed age of an Ethiopian orphan.

When are you Kiwi enough to qualify for KiwiSaver? Helen Twose puts that question to Nigel Jackson, Westpac's head of wealth products.

Seven years ago Latu Talu was an overstayer from Tuvalu. Now he's successful boxer.

Turkish efforts to stop traffickers from sending large "ghost ships" crammed with migrants towards Italy has sparked the surge in arrivals in Greece, the International Organisation for Migration says.

The chief executive of Immigration NZ is not impressed at the discovery of a border official who accepted $26,500 to help a young couple obtain visas.

Exclusive: A visa-for-cash scandal was discovered only when a young couple who paid $26,500 to a corrupt border official demanded a refund.

The decision to allow refugee frauds to stay in New Zealand means 27 genuine refugees may have missed out on coming to the country.

International travel figures released support suspicion that the economy's potential growth has been cut by slower population growth.

The mayor of Palermo has urged European Union leaders to respond to "a genocide caused by European selfishness".

A wooden fishing boat packed with at least 600 migrants overturned in the Mediterranean Sea and hundreds are feared dead.

Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has called for Kiwis to stop demonising migrants and show leadership in race relations.

Making immigrants take out insurance was rejected as "utterly disgraceful" by an NZ First MP - but his colleague has included a similar measure in legislation.

They love the lifestyle and making money isn't their main reason for arriving. But super-rich migrants complain about NZ's cost of living, bad weather and slow pace.

Net migration is increasing our population by more than 1 per cent a year and that's not counting natural population growth, writes Bernard Hickey.

Desperate nightly dash for a better life reaches fever pitch as Britain prepares more daunting fencing.

Providing migrants with an added incentive to settle in regional New Zealand, rather than Auckland, involves a degree of intervention that would not normally be contemplated by a National Government.

Council, developers and lobby group debating new rules which will allow more houses to be built.

The Government says a new plan to lure migrants away from Auckland will boost regional economies, but admits it will do little to ease Auckland's housing pressures.

National's latest bit of tinkering with its immigration policy will not solve the Auckland housing crisis. It will barely touch it.

Prospective immigrants to New Zealand will be given greater incentive to go to provincial New Zealand under a series of immigration measures outlined by the PM.

Protests by French farmers and sailors, desperate migrants and traffic chaos is causing major disruptions on both sides of the English Channel.

A former immigration official and a cohort caught taking cash sweeteners to help get people into New Zealand have today admitted corruption and bribery charges.

A net inflow of 3000 migrants in June pushed the annual net gain to 58,300 - the 11th straight month it has hit a new record.

Migrant arrivals climbed 15 percent to 115,700 in the year, while departures fell 8.1 percent to 57,400.

The NZ-China free trade agreement doesn't stop new restrictions on house sales to overseas buyers, but National's subsequent deals try to, writes David Parker.

I consider myself a New Zealand patriot.But because I have a Chinese sounding name, Labour views me as part of a problem, writes Aaron Lim.