John McLean: Immigration Biometric Project Exposed

On 16 June 2026, Minister of Immigration Erica Stanford angrily highlighted that the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has repeatedly and deliberately misled her about an information technology project purporting to improve biometric capability at Immigration New Zealand. Immigration NZ is part of MBIE. The project, which wasted at least $38 million of public money in less than 10 years, has been abandoned after achieving nothing.