WELCOME TO NEW ZEALAND?
Even before he died, Yu Xingming was living as a ghost in New Zealand.
Three years after arriving on a work visa – apparently acquired after paying a fee of around $30,000 to a broker in China – little trace remains of the life led here by the 45-year-old, killed in a fall from a construction site in Auckland last May.
Yu’s wife, who had remained in China with their teenage son, says her husband didn’t have an employment contract and was paid in cash, cloaking his presence from the authorities. After his death, Yu’s clothes and shoes were returned to her by
