New Zealand is riding a record wave of immigration, with the net annual figure exceeding 100,000 people for the first time.
On Wednesday, Stats NZ posted provisional estimates of the year to August, with 225,400 people moving to NZ, and 115,110 leaving.
The overall net migration figure was 110,200.
Spokesman Tehseene Islam said the migrant arrivals figure was a record, and the departures was just below the previous record of 117,400 recorded in the February 2012 year.
"Net migration continues to be driven by non-New Zealand citizen arrivals, with about eight out of nine migrants arriving on a non-New Zealand passport," Mr Islam said.
Net migration of Kiwi citizens is running at -42,600, with 25,900 settling in NZ and 68,500 leaving over the last year.
Of those departures, just over half were to Australia.
A mass of non-NZ citizens are choosing to become Kiwis, with 199,500 arriving and 46,600 departing, for a net gain of 152,800.
Migrant arrivals of non-NZ citizens surged 300 per cent in the past year after the government loosened migration settings to respond to demand in the local economy.
With a general election on Saturday, Opposition leader Chris Luxon picked up on the figure of net migration of Kiwi citizens to make his point.
"42,000 Kiwis have voted with their feet," he said.
"The responsibility for us and a new government is to rebuild this country and rebuild the economy."
Mr Luxon said a National-led government would turn those numbers around, put he wouldn't put targets on migration.
