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.

When Korean mother Ye Jin Lee feels homesick, she'll spend a day at Rosedale Rd on Auckland's North Shore.

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.

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.

The arrival in Australia of a boat filled with suspected asylum seekers, apparently heading for NZ, is the result of a deal formed between the two countries, says a refugee expert.

A ramshackle fishing boat carrying 66 suspected asylum seekers from Sri Lanka has arrived in Australia displaying a sign saying "We want to go to New Zealand".

Two men accused of using fake passports and other documents are facing several forgery and deception charges.

Kiwis have missed weddings, funerals and nearly lost their jobs or been deported due to a backlog of visa cases in Britain.

More than 40,000 migrants who have been granted permanent residence are absent from New Zealand.

Burmese form the largest group of people who were granted residence through the refugee quota programme.

One in three international students deported or asked to leave voluntarily was Chinese.

Over the past decade, one in five international students gained permanent New Zealand residency within five years of being issued their first student visa.

Asians are dominating in visitor and international student numbers and in most family-migration categories to New Zealand.

The deaths of two more asylum seekers off Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island has again focused attention on the complexity of the dangerous crossing.

The Security Intelligence Service blocked Kim Dotcom's application for residency after learning of the FBI investigation into internet piracy then lifted it at the last minute.

International students are being warned against working as prostitutes in a new Immigration New Zealand employment advice website.