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Migrants and immigration advisers are crying foul over Immigration New Zealand's "impossible" deadline for filing family sponsorship papers, and one religious ethnic organisation is taking the Immigration Minister to court over the matter.

Eight foreign workers, allowed into New Zealand under a government scheme, will be deported after being caught working illegally.

A group of immigrants working illegally has been arrested and faces deportation, after a joint operation between police and Immigration New Zealand.

The global recession caused a drop in skilled migrants and international students coming to New Zealand, the Labour Department says.

A national trade union has slammed Immigration's decision to process the job-search visa applications that it had accepted in error because hundreds who had arrived under the scheme are still without jobs.

United Workers Movement-NMI president Rabby Syed said his meetings with U.S.-based groups dealing with labor and immigration have given much stronger hope that “long-term, legal alien workers” in the CNMI will be eligible for improved U.S. immigration status.

Prime Minister John Key says there is an increasing risk that boat people will make it to New Zealand's shores and new changes to the immigration law are needed to deter people smugglers and cope with a possible mass arrival of asylum seekers.