Lynnette Xu and her parents with baby Ethan, born in Auckland on May 12 while his father was stuck overseas. LYNNETTE XU/SUPPLIED Gilbert Tong, husband of Lynnette Xu and father of their baby born on May 12, has been denied entry to NZ and refused a compassionate or any other type of exemption. "Where individuals do not meet border exception criteria, reasons are not included as part of the border exceptions request process." INZ said it offered invitations to only 19 per cent of the 14,901 border exception requests. Australian citizen Nathan Parrott​ was blocked from seeing his wife Sandy​, a Kiwi citizen expecting the couple's first child.

Source: Stuff June 14, 2020 05:37 UTC