After reading Ryan's posts though I am considering hopping on a flight to New Zealand, tearing up my paperwork, and staying!You'd have to claim refugee status and demonstrate that you are at significant risk because of political, religious, racial or whatever characteristics if you returned to your home country. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1