Immigration New Zealand
33 stories since November 2024 Ongoing
Topics
- Teenager's deportation to India threat3 stories · February 2025Quiet since 20 Feb 2025
- Digital nomad visa announcement4 stories · January 2025Quiet since 28 Jan 2025
- Israel-Iran conflict and New Zealand response18 stories · June – July 2025Quiet since 6 Jul 2025
- Organised crime and modern slavery response5 stories · August – October 2025Quiet since 4 Oct 2025
- MBIE immigration IT project failure4 stories · 29 Jul – 23 SepQuiet since 23 Sep
All stories
October 2026
- Study visa refusals increase due to fraudulent applications



- Man who lived under alias for 38 years fails deportation appeal



September 2026
- MBIE confirms $50.7 million wasted on abandoned biometric project



+2 - Immigration NZ spent $85,000 to deport sick overstayer



August 2026
December 2025
- Nelson nurse fights deportation of autistic son after visa rejection




- Auckland man jailed for running illegal immigration scheme


- Paeroa business fined for exploiting migrant workers




November 2025
October 2025
- Man sentenced to home detention for immigration fraud scheme


- Lawyer vows to block deportation of New Zealand-born teenager


September 2025
- Immigration investigators call for police-led anti-trafficking unit


- Deported traveller family ordered to shut down makeshift caravan park


- Liquidation of Auckland renovation firms and Tauranga gold-trading company


- Adopted teenager granted visa to live with suspected people-traffickers




August 2025
July 2025
- Immigration adviser's licence cancelled following history of wrongdoing


- Immigration New Zealand receives nearly 300 offshore visa applications


- Universities fear immigration levy could reduce international student numbers


June 2025
- Christchurch employer sentenced for exploiting migrant worker



+1 - Nearly 200 applications received for investment residency visas


- Government announces visa waiver trial for Chinese visitors from Australia



- Tingjun Cao sentenced to life for murder of Yanfei Bao



+2 - Immigration NZ alerted to child smuggling and large overseas adoptions



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March 2025
February 2025
- New Zealand-born teenager offered residency after deportation threat



+1 - Deportation of New Zealand-born teen Daman Kumar is on hold


- Deportation of New Zealand-born teenager to India put on hold




- Fijian teen to be deported over special education cost concerns

