Asian business migrants looking at moving to New Zealand are being urged to invest in real estate to secure their residency.

Applicants for residence under Immigration New Zealand's family parent category are being told they will have to wait up to seven years for their visas.

The turnaround in net migration flows gathered pace last month as fewer people left the country for Australia.

A softening Australian economy has forced several ASX-listed companies to downgrade their earnings prospects over the past month.

The Government says it will consider asylum for translators who worked with New Zealand's SAS soldiers in Afghanistan and have been left jobless and in danger.

Police have won the right to take a case involving an Iraqi man wanted for alleged people smuggling to the Court of Appeal.

Thousands of Britons have been lining up for a new life in New Zealand just as figures show a dramatic drop in the number of UK migrants coming Downunder.

Immigration New Zealand says it will work on how to prioritise immigration cases after the Chief Ombudsman ruled that it had unreasonably delayed an application.

New Zealand business travellers are more worried than others about flying economy but they're far more relaxed about airport security and immigration.

A classified report has confirmed that the boatload of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who arrived without warning in Australia had been sailing for New Zealand.

The majority of migrants to New Zealand feel they belong here, according to new analysis from Statistics New Zealand.

A national campaign is being prepared in Australia to challenge the exclusion of expatriate New Zealanders and Pacific Islanders from welfare and other Government assistance.

Budgeting services are facing cuts and New Zealand's only hostel for asylum seekers may have to close because of the ending of a government scheme.

Nearly 40 per cent of immigrants from China gaining New Zealand permanent residence last year were aged 50 or over, sparking calls for younger migrants.

Ex-Takapuna Grammar student and Malaysian migrant King Khoo completed one of this year's largest commercial deals to fulfil the terms of the business migrant scheme.

Looking down from a plane flying into New Zealand, Gulnazim Kazimi couldn't believe how big the ocean was. It was his first time seeing it - now he wants to touch it.

A white supremacist Christchurch group is planning to distribute anti-Chinese flyers around Auckland, a city council ethnic panel member says.

Kim Dotcom's company Mega is warily eyeing proposed legislation that may oblige it to open its systems to surveillance by spy agencies the GCSB and SIS.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is trying to drag one of the country's most senior police officers into court.

Critics of the hard line the Government has adopted towards "boat people" must have been dismayed when an overcrowded fishing boat was brought ashore north of Perth this week, its 66 passengers displaying a sign that read, "We want to go to New Zealand".

Kiwis on their OE are likelier to be young professionals than backpackers dossing down in a bedsit. London correspondent Jared Savage visits an area of south London that has become the new Kiwi capital.

A long-term overstayer believes he has found a way to stop Immigration New Zealand from deporting him - by renouncing his citizenship.

A fast-track visa deal struck with a Chinese airline for frequent flyers could be exploited by sex traffickers and people smugglers, according to a risk report.

Migrant prostitutes here are not victims of people trafficking and many are in the sex trade for the money, research on migrant sex workers in New Zealand has found.