More than 5000 parents of migrants are waiting for a moratorium on parent category visas to be lifted so they can be reunited with their children in New Zealand, but New Zealand First looks unlikely to back the removal of the ban. Continue reading
Posts Tagged ‘NZ Immigration laws’
“In the public interest” to deport a tetraplegic from New Zealand to Tonga
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Immigration New Zealand says it is in the public interest to deport a tetraplegic to Tonga. Semisi Ma’afu Samiu is wondering how he will get off the airplane once he gets there. He tripped over a child’s plastic bike in Auckland in May 2006, crashing on to a concrete surface and injuring his spine, leaving him Read more
Are refugees not God’s children too?
Friday, May 11th, 2012
Prime Minister John Key has announced the rolling out of what he termed “tough new measures to deter potential mass arrivals of illegal immigrants and people smuggling to New Zealand.” Did the visit of the US Secretary for Homeland Security (1-3 May) have anything to do with this hasty amendment to the 2009 Immigration Law? Read more