For tomorrow's World Refugee Day the Herald looks at how three young people have made lives for themselves here.

Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse says the Government may lift the refugee quota next year.

Hungary has unveiled plans to build a fence along its border with Serbia as part of an anti-immigration drive, saying it "cannot afford to wait any longer" for the European Union to come up with a solution to the migration crisis.

Key had little choice but to put some distance between himself and Abbott's handling of the asylum-seeker payment row, writes John Armstrong.

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.

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 boat of asylum seekers had a credible chance of reaching NZ - but the Government will not say what options were being considered if that had happened.

The survivor of a camp recounts her 25 terrifying days late last year near the southern Thai town of Padang Besar, where she saw people die every two or three days.

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.

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.

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

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.

Migrants stranded at sea for four months resorted to stabbing, hanging each other and throwing passengers overboard in a desperate struggle for the last remaining food.

If visitor numbers from China continue at current rates, we'll be earning more tourist dollars from the Chinese than the Australians.

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.