Some temporary migrants - backpackers - are more than happy to stay in New Zealand through the pandemic.
French backpacker Marine Baiguerra is among more than 13,000 people to have signed a petition seeking a six-month extension to working holiday visas.
The petition, organised by German backpacker Marie Bock, is now before Parliament.
Immigration New Zealand extended the deadline earlier this year for those unable to return home because of Covid-19.
It says it's now looking at further options for those on working holiday visas, but New Zealanders made jobless by the pandemic are the priority.
Marine Baiguerra told RNZ reporter Tracy Neal there are many reasons she and others want to stay in New Zealand.
