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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Up to 30,000 people could drown in the Mediterranean this year unless urgent action is taken to curb trafficking and rescue stricken boats, experts warned yesterday.

A lawyer who illegally acted as an immigration advisor has had two-and-a-half months tacked onto his record jail term.

I am in England on the Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference with 100 senior leaders from 22 countries around the Commonwealth.

Kim Dotcom's ability to stay in New Zealand will be decided by Immigration minister Michael Woodhouse and could come inside a month.

A woman who recruited women from Thailand to work illegally as sex workers in Auckland has been jailed.

A disgraced former immigration advisor asked a woman to move into his house and perform sexual favours and domestic duties in exchange for immigration help.

It bucketed down on Sunday morning, just as they were setting up for the Auckland International Cultural Festival at the sprawling War Memorial Park in Mt Roskill.

Wide-ranging new powers including warrantless searches of migrants' homes will be more closely monitored.