A 12-year-old autistic girl has been barred from moving to New Zealand - and being reunited with her family - because the country's immigration policies reject people with disabilities or illnesses which may burden the health system.Arianna Alfonzo has been living with her mother in the Philippines while her father, Allan, lives and works in Christchurch, where he has a carpet-laying business.
Both he and Arianna's mother, Lorigail, have permanent residency status in New Zealand. Image: Arianna has been separated from her father for six years

But their daughter was first denied a visa in 2017 after she was deemed not to have met the "acceptable standards of health", an immigration policy that considers whether a person would cost New Zealand more than $41,000 (£23,170) over five years.