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Queenstown tourists can have their visitors' permits turned into work permits within 48 hours to help fill labour shortages,

The number of young people from overseas able to work while on holiday in New Zealand will increase to at least 40,000 within two years, Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Immigration Minister Paul Swain announced today.

Associate Immigration Minister Damien O'Connor heads to Bangkok for a New Zealand Immigration Service workshop aimed at improving the offshore recruitment of migrants.

Immigration Minister Paul Swain has asked the Immigration Service to investigate the case of Somali refugee Asha Ali Abdille.

Changes will make policy more flexible

New Zealand's Immigration policy is becoming more responsive and flexible to the needs of employers facing increasing labour supply and skills shortages

Associate Immigration Minister Damien O'Connor on a day in the life of an Associate Immigration Minister.

Zimbabweans in New Zealand on temporary permits to be considered for permanent residence

David Irving has been refused permission to board a flight to New Zealand

Policy attracting the migrants economy needs

Improved measures to enable Pacific Island quotas to be filled.

Associate Immigration Minister Damien O'Connor reaffirms his decision not to intervene in the removal of Iranian overstayer Saied Ghanbari.

Wayne Mapp isn't telling the whole story - again

The Government is cracking down on immigration fraudsters

The government wants views on $62 million initiative

Associate Immigration Minister Damien O'Connor declines to intervene in the case of Iranian overstayer Saied Ghanbari.

Immigration Minister Paul Swain today launched the Refugee Voices report.

New Zealand will accept up to 50,000 new residents in the year ending June 2005

Acting Immigration Minister Damien O'Connor disputes National Party figures relating to the government's skilled migrant policy.

A misunderstanding may have led a Tongan official to think she required a visa to enter New Zealand, says Immigration Minister Paul Swain.

Budget 2004 allocates more than $62 million over the next four years for practical measures to help migrants, refugees and their families make a greater contribution to the economy and society.

Cabinet has agreed in principle to the statutory regulation of immigration agents

The focus of the government's immigration policy for the past four years has been to shift from a passive, defensive approach, to become more of an active recruitment agency in a highly mobile, competitive international labour market.

The Immigration Minister Paul Swain says highly qualified professionals are being actively recruited in areas of skill shortages across the whole country as a result of the first full month's operation of the new Skilled Migrant Category.